Question

Describe the succession of the crown of the Holy Roman Emperor in the 1550s

Answer 1

Holly roman empire is the roman empire of German nation that encapsulates the typically western and central Europe and this empire is formed in 10th century and in 1560 in their succession Charles V captured the crown.

Answer 2

During his reign as Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V (a member of the House of Habsburg) attempted to impose imperial hegemony over much of Europe, a move marked by his support of Catholicism and the Roman Church, and his fight against the Reformation; however, the wars among different kingdoms and principalities and the spread of Protestantism in Germany were an obstacle for the realization of those ambitious goals.

Charles V accepted the Peace of Augsburg in 1555, what provided a political and legal basis for the separation of German states along religious lines, Catholic and Protestants. He abdicated in 1556 and his succcesor was Rudolf I of Habsburg. Until its final days in the 19th century, the empire was merely a loose federation of German Catholic principalities and kingdoms (Protestant states did not belong to it).

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