Portrait of Charles V with a dog by Titian Vecellio

Portrait of Charles V with a dog by Titian Vecellio

Charles V – one of the outstanding rulers of his era, the King of Spain from the Habsburg dynasty. He was widely educated, he knew several languages. He waged numerous wars, which resulted in the annexation of a large number of countries. He kept his residents “in a black body”, because he regarded his country as a chest with money.

The riots broke out, but he brutally suppressed them Exhausted by continuous wars and standing on the verge of a nervous breakdown, Charles V in 1556 abdicated and retired to the monastery.

With an eccentric fiction he spent in 1558 a kind of dress rehearsal of his funeral. Wrapped in a shroud and surrounded by candle-holding nuns, the emperor lay on a hearse and in such a state participated in the liturgy. And soon, on September 21, the ruler of the world died.

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