Charles owed his destiny to his grandfather, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian ... Charles’ grandfather Emperor Maximilian died. Although the imperial crown had now been held by the Habsburgs ...

high-spired Nuremberg last week for seven days of such pageantry and triumph as might befit the coronation of a Holy Roman Emperor. To heighten the excitement not even crown jewels were omitted.

As Holy Roman Emperor, Charlemagne instituted cultural, economic, and religious reforms that ignited the Carolingian Renaissance. He valued scholarship, the arts, and literature, and improved the ...

In 1547, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V penned a letter to his ambassador, Jean de Saint-Mauris, part of which was written in the ruler's secret code. Nearly five centuries later, researchers have ...

Researchers in France have finally cracked a complex code of mysterious symbols and "nonsense" decoys written by Charles V, the former Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain. When you purchase ...

Visiting, meditating or praying in Istanbul's Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom in Greek) is aesthetically and emotionally exhilarating. Built by the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I between 532 and 537 ...

A Medieval silk bag the size of a clenched fist is revealing previously little-known links between Westminster Abbey and Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor. The bag, which remains in the ...