Charles Foreign policy failures
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- Created on: 15-05-19 18:00
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- Charles Foreign Policy Failures
- Holy Roman Empire
- Diet of Speyer 1526- matters of faith w/i own jurisdiction
- Failure to suppress Prot.
- Schmalkaldic League- sig. military threat
- Diet of Regensburg + diplomacy fails
- Had to resort to violence- short lived success at Battle of Muhlberg 1547
- No imperial Army- relied heavily on spain for army
- No centralised gov.
- Has to compromise beliefs and fails to uphold Catholicism in Empire
- Habsburg-Valois War
- Failed to reclaim Burgundy
- Loses Metz, Toul and Verdun to France
- Fails to unify Christendom or lead crusade against Ottomans
- Fought Christian King who had the aid of Muslims
- Ottomans
- 1529 Ottomans take hungary- exposing Austria
- F makes truce w/ ottomans and only keep NW corner- abandons claim to central Hungary
- Captures Belgrade- Charles' focus was the Med
- Fails to take Algiers- 1551 Loses Tripoli, 1555- Bougie
- Corsair fleet attacked Balearic Islands, Italy and Spain threatened as well as trade and slaves
- Supported by Francis (un-united Christendom)
- New World
- Influx of Bullion created inflation w/i Spain + made economy unstable
- Holy Roman Empire
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