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Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
24 quotes
“My life has been one long journey.”
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558) said by 1558 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have a glove into which I can put your whole city of Paris.”
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558) said by 1558 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In view of Our special love for and inclination to the German Nation and the Holy Roman Empire…as Roman emperor and supreme steward of Christendom, it pertains to Our Imperial office to confess Our obligation to guard, protect, and maintain the holy Christian faith as it has been preserved until now.”
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Recorded in: Diet of Augsburg (1530)
“Francis and I are in perfect accord. He wants Milan and so do I.”
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558) said by 1558 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Will and Ariel Durant, The Story of Civilization, Vol. 5: The Renaissance (1953)
“Leave him alone. He has already met his judge. I wage war on the living, not the dead.”
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558) said by 1558 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Michael Grzonka, Luther and His Times (2016)
“Fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman; if she be too much wooed, she is the farther off.”
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558) said by 1558 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning (1605), Book II
“Autant de langues que l'homme sçait parler, autant de fois est-il homme.”
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558) said by 1558 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: John G. Robertson, Words for a Modern Age: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Combining Elements (1991), page 250: "Attributed to Charles V
“Because we cannot by ourselves give sufficient thanks to God, our creator, for the grace, honour, health and success that He has granted us thus far, nor amass sufficient merit to secure the continuation of His grace in the future… to beseech God to continue to raise us in virtue and good customs, to govern our dominions and subjects in peace, union and concord, and to guide our affairs to His honour, our wellbeing, and the prosperity, utility and tranquility of our said dominions and subjects.”
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Recorded in: (January 1515), Ch. 3. The Difficult Inheritance, 1515-17
“Ever since our emancipation and entry into the lordship and governance of our Netherlands provinces, we have constantly tried and strongly desired and wanted to create good order and sound policies in all our affairs and end the disorder that has existed in the past because of the wars and divisions that prevailed, as well as for other reasons, and even in the organisation of our own household on which the wellbeing, honour and tranquility of ourselves and of our ministers, dominions and subjects largely depends.”
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Recorded in: (late 1515), Ch. 3. The Difficult Inheritance, 1515-17
“(in regard to a counter attack against the Turks) “…because that is what I have wanted to do since I was a child and also to fulfill the responsibilities of my imperial title as chief protector and defender of our Christian religion. Therefore, despite the vast costs and distractions that I face at present on account of the war against the French, I have resolved to assemble a fleet as soon as I can to relieve Rhodes… ready to spare nothing to preserve, defend and deliver Rhodes from these tyrannical infidel enemies, devoting all our kingdom and dominions and our person if necessary.”
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Recorded in: (1522, before Rhodes was captured by the Ottomans), Ch. 8. Champion of the Western World, 1528-31
“We are more inclined to marry [your] sister the infanta, Isabella, than anyone else because there is no daughter of a king as ready as her.”
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Recorded in: (January 1522 to King John of Portugal), Portrait of the Emperor as a Renaissance Prince
“The Nuncio Baldesari Castilione: “[His majesty] should make up his mind and fast, because delay is very dangerous.”
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558) said by 1558 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Emperor Charles: “[Our policy] has always been to deal first with matters which are easiest to resolve and leave the most difficult ones until last.”
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Recorded in: (1526), Portrait of the Emperor as a Renaissance Prince
“I am wholly decided and resolved to go in person to help my brother because his need is so great and the perils so extreme that it does not merely threaten him but places all Christendom at risk. I cannot and must not abandon him because of the office I hold and because of the obligations of fraternal friendship and also because he is such a good brother to me.”
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Recorded in: (Charles’ letter to his aunt Margaret, 23rd September 1529), Ch. 8. Champion of the Western World, 1528-31
“Without the prior pacification of Italy, it could happen that as soon as I leave to succor you, Venice, Florence, Ferrara and Francesco Sforza will ally together, pull all their resources and invite the French to support them… Since I will need to take with me to Germany the army besieging Florence, we need a swift decision by His Holiness in this matter.”
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Recorded in: (Charles’ letter to his brother Ferdinand, 23rd September 1529), Ch. 8. Champion of the Western World, 1528-31
“Since our Lord, who gave Fernando to us, wished to have him back, we must bend to His will and thank Him and beg Him to protect what is left. With great affection, my lady, I beg you to do this and to forget and leave behind all pain and grief.”
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Recorded in: (1530, Charles to his wife), Portrait of the Emperor as a Renaissance Prince
“These heretics have been so obstinate that no policy has worked or sufficed to get them to recognise their errors… I can see that if there were a way of forcing them we could justly move against them, but that is not the case now, nor do I currently have the means, because I am tired, alone and without help and there are so many of them that great force would be needed to overcome them. The true remedy is to convene a general council.”
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Recorded in: (Charles to Louiser, 20th October 1530), Ch. 8. Champion of the Western World, 1528-31
“…Begging Your Holiness as earnestly as I can that you convene a general council with the urgency that the situation demands and that for optimal effect Your Holiness should write to other princes and potentates explaining why. Namely the need to create a united front against the expected Turkish attack and to prevent the heresies that have recently appeared from spreading further.”
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Recorded in: (Charles’ letter to Pope Clement VII, 20th October 1530), Ch. 8. Champion of the Western World, 1528-31
“I want to be trusted, and will not bargain with my subjects.”
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Recorded in: (Charles to the ministers of Holland, 1531), Ch. 8. Champion of the Western World, 1528-31
“I was writing to my wife when your letter arrived, and now I want to look at her portrait myself, seeing the great beauty it contains. I am such a devoted husband that other beautiful women now do nothing for me.”
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Recorded in: (1532, Charles’ letter to his sister Marie), Portrait of the Emperor as a Renaissance Prince
“It has brought me the greatest sorrow you can imagine, because he was the most handsome little boy for his age that you could find. I feel his death even more than the loss of my own son [Fernando] because he was older and I knew him better and treated him as my own son. Nevertheless we must accept the will of God. May God forgive me, but I wish He had taken Christian instead of his son.”
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Recorded in: (Charles on the death of his nephew Hans of Denmark, August, 1532), Portrait of the Emperor as a Renaissance Prince
“You know that my ancestors were the most Christian emperors of the great nation of Germany, the Catholic kings of Spain, the archdukes of Austria, and the dukes of Burgundy, who all were, until death, faithful sons of the Roman Church.… I am therefore resolved to maintain everything which these my forebears have established to the present…and to settle this matter I will use all my dominions and possessions, my friends, my body, my blood, my life, and my soul. It would be a disgrace for you and me, the illustrious and renowned nation of Germany, privileged and pre-eminent as protector and defender of the Catholic faith, if heresy, or even just the suspicion of heresy, and the degradation of the Christian religion were to return to the hearts of men in our time to our perpetual dishonour.”
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Recorded in: Diet of Worms (1521)
“It pleased the emperor, my lord and grandfather, to emancipate me and free me from his ward and guardianship, placing in our hands the governance of our lands and lordships in the Netherlands… our affairs shall in future be transacted in our name… the titles that we intend to use from now on… by the grace of God, prince of Spain, of Sicily and Naples, of Jerusalem and others, archduke of Austria, duke of Burgundy, Lorraine, Brabant, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, Limburg, Luxembourg and Gelderland… count of Flanders, Habsburg, Tyrol, Artois, Burgundy and Hainaut, landgrave of Alsace, prince of Swabia, margrave of Burgau, Holland, Seeland, Ferrette, Kyburg, Namur and Zutphen, lord of Frisia, Sclavonia, Pordenone, Salins and Mechelen.”
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Recorded in: (8th January 1515), Ch. 3: The Difficult Inheritance, 1515-17
“I found great enmities, personal passions, leagues and alliances among [my] officials, constantly turning everyone against the rest. Therefore, to see and ascertain the truth, I followed up the accusations against my fiscal officers made by their adversaries, and I examined their accounts from 1520 to 1530, that is for 10 years, to see if they had robbed me as some claimed. But, although some matters were not as satisfactory as they should have been, I found no fault… If there is a fault here, the principal cause is that everyone desires so many privileges to limit my sovereignty so that we would almost become colleagues and I would no longer be in charge.”
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Recorded in: (Charles confided to Ferdinand, in Burgundian French, about the disputes of taxes in Brussels, 1531), Ch. 8. Champion of the Western World, 1528-31