Joanna of Austria (1535–1573), who married her first cousin João Manuel, Prince of Portugal.Maria of Austria (1528–1603), who married her first cousin Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor.Philip II of Spain (1527–1598), the only son to reach adulthood.On 10 March 1526, Charles married his first cousin Isabella of Portugal, sister of John III of Portugal, in Seville. After abdication he retired to the Monastery of Yuste, in the province of Cáceres in Extremadura, Spain, for the final 2 years of his life. Charles abdicated as emperor in 1556 in favor of his brother Ferdinand. After the death of his paternal grandfather, Maximilian, in 1519, he inherited the Habsburg Monarchy. He was betrothed to both Louise and Charlotte of Valois, daughters of King Francis I of France, but they both died in childhood. Charles was the heir of three of Europe's leading dynasties, the House of Habsburg of the Habsburg Monarchy, the House of Valois-Burgundy of the Burgundian Netherlands, and the House of Trastámara of the Crowns of Castile and Aragón.Ĭharles was born as the eldest son of Philip the Handsome and Joanna the Mad in the Flemish city of Ghent in 1500. Charles V (French: Charles Quint German: Karl V.) (24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558) was ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 1519 and, as Charles I (Spanish: Carlos I), of the Kingdom(s) of Spain (Reino de España) from 1516 until his voluntary abdication in favor of his younger brother Ferdinand I as Holy Roman Emperor and his son Philip II as King of Spain in 1556.
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