CARLOS I
BIOGRAFHY
Carlos I of Spain and V of the Holy Roman Empire,
called the Emperor or Caesar (Ghent, Flanders County, February 24, 1500-Cuacos
de Yuste, September 21, 1558), reigned together with his mother, Juana I of
Castile, the latter only nominally and until 1555, in all the Hispanic kingdoms
and territories with the name of Carlos I from 1516 to 1556, thus bringing
together for the first time in the same person the Crowns of Castile the
Kingdom of Navarre inclusive and Aragon.
INTERNAL POLITIC
The arrival of Carlos to Castile meant the arrival of
an inexperienced young man who did not know the customs and language of his
kingdom, given which he placed his trust in his Burgundian collaborators who
had accompanied him from the Netherlands, to whom he procured high dignities
and access to income and wealth. This upset the Castilians and they made it
known to them in the Cortes of Valladolid in 1518, which was ignored by the
king. Taking advantage of the War of the Communities of Castile with a partial
demilitarization of the Kingdom of Navarre, the third counter-offensive of the
Navarrese to recover the kingdom in 1521. On this occasion, Enrique II of
Navarre with the support of the French King Francisco I, achieved the recovery
in a short time. However, the humble population remained almost entirely
passive, without showing loyalty to Carlos I but without showing support for
the legitimists
EXTERNAL POLITIC
Against the Ottoman Empire with the help of the
Protestant German princes and a good part of the Castilian nobility, Carlos
went in 1532 to the aid of his brother Ferdinand of Habsburg to defend Vienna
from the attack of Suleiman the Magnificent, a city to which he arrived on the
23rd. September of that year, but Francis I of France, who feared that the
emperor would defeat the Turks and thus focus on the war against him, advised
the sultan not to attack the imperial army and it ended up withdrawing without
offering hardly any battle. I had four wars with Francisco I of France, who
also aspired to the imperial crown, and who demanded the return of Burgundy.