Pair of The History of the Reign of Charles the Fifth by William Robertson, D.D. With an Account of the Emperors Life After his Abdication. Published in London by George Routledge & Sons. This is a complete set of 2 books, they are bound in a brown textured cloth and have gold gilt crests on the spine. These would be an amazing set to add to any collection of King or Queen Books…
Charles V (1500 – 1558) was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, King of Spain from 1516 to 1556, and Lord of the Netherlands as titular Duke of Burgundy from 1506 to 1555. He was heir to and then head of the rising House of Habsburg. His dominions in Europe included the Holy Roman Empire, extending from Germany to northern Italy with rule over the Austrian hereditary lands and Burgundian Low Countries, and Spain with its possessions of the southern Italian kingdoms of Naples, Sicily and Sardinia. In the Americas, he oversaw the continuation of Spanish colonizationand a short-lived German colonization. The personal union of the European and American territories he ruled was the first collection of realms labelled "the empire on which the sun never sets".
