I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
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Charles V
Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain (1500-1558). Through Habsburg dynastic inheritance Charles ruled Germany, Spain, and the Americas as a single composite empire, the first labelled "the empire on which the sun never set." After decades of war against France, the Ottomans, and the German Lutherans, in 1556 he uniquely abdicated, splitting his realms between his son Philip II and his brother Ferdinand. He is the central architect of the early modern European order.
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