He guarded the Hapsburg lands from the Ottomans and chose to part the Hapsburg Spanish and Holy Roman terrains between his child, Philip II, and his brother, Ferdinand I. Charles was the principle driving force behind the Council of Trent, a general Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church that met somewhere around 1545 and 1563 in various separate and unpredictable sessions. The Council of Trent predictably detailed the official reaction of the Catholic Church to the Protestant Reformation; the measures conceded to are referred to aggregately as the Counter-Reformation. Essentially, he was against the Protestant Reformation. Furthermore, he ended the fighting with German rulers by agreeing with the German princes that the religious beliefs of each prince would determine which religion. He is remembered today as an emperor who attempted his best for his nation despite the fact that he failed in his effort to bring all of Europe under his majestic
He guarded the Hapsburg lands from the Ottomans and chose to part the Hapsburg Spanish and Holy Roman terrains between his child, Philip II, and his brother, Ferdinand I. Charles was the principle driving force behind the Council of Trent, a general Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church that met somewhere around 1545 and 1563 in various separate and unpredictable sessions. The Council of Trent predictably detailed the official reaction of the Catholic Church to the Protestant Reformation; the measures conceded to are referred to aggregately as the Counter-Reformation. Essentially, he was against the Protestant Reformation. Furthermore, he ended the fighting with German rulers by agreeing with the German princes that the religious beliefs of each prince would determine which religion. He is remembered today as an emperor who attempted his best for his nation despite the fact that he failed in his effort to bring all of Europe under his majestic