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Greatest of Holy Roman Emperors |
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| His forty-year reign encompassed the end of the Renaissance, the rise of Luther and the Reformation, and the Catholic Reform movement. He also struggled to hold together the empire of German-speaking peoples, presided over the conquest of the New World, and reigned over the largest empire in European history. In 1558, he abdicated his throne, exhausted. | |||||||||||||
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Contemporaries in Renaissance and Reformation |
Other Kings and Male Monarchs |
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