Kuka päivitti Kaarle V (keisari)?

Kaarle V (esp. Carlos Quinto, Carlos V); (24. helmikuuta 1500 Gent, Flanderi – 21. syyskuuta 1558 Yusten luostari, Extremadura, Espanja) oli Pyhän saksalais-roomalaisen keisarikunnan hallitsija Kaarle V vuosina 1519–1556. Hän oli myös Espanjan kuningas vuosina 1516–1556 nimellä Kaarle I. Hän kuului Habsburgien sukuun.

Kaarlen hallitsijakausi oli sotaisa: Ranskan kuningasta Frans I:tä vastaan hän kävi yhteensä neljä sotaa. Turkkilaisten hyökkäyksiä oli torjuttava useaan kertaan. Wormsin valtiopäivillä 1521 Kaarle oli esittänyt kielteisen kantansa uskonpuhdistukseen, mutta taistelujen myötä (muun muassa Schmalkaldenin sota) hän joutui taipumaan sopimukseen uskonvapaudesta, joka vahvistettiin Augsburgin uskonrauhassa vuonna 1555. Hänen hallitsija­kaudellaan espanjalaiset myös valloittivat laajoja alueita Keski- ja Etelä-Amerikassa.

Vuonna 1556 Kaarle luopui kruunuistaan ja vetäytyi elämänsä viimeisiksi vuosiksi luostariin. Keisarina ja Itävallan hallitsijana häntä seurasi hänen nuorempi veljensä Ferdinand I, Espanjan kuninkaana hänen poikansa Filip II.

Ursula Germaine of Foix (c. 1488 – 15 October 1536) was an early modern French noblewoman from the House of Foix. She was the daughter of John, Viscount of Narbonne, and Marie of Orléans and granddaughter of Queen Eleanor of Navarre. By marriage to King Ferdinand II of Aragon (Eleanor's half-brother), she was Queen of Aragon, Majorca, Naples, Sardinia, Sicily, and Valencia and Princess of Catalonia from 1505 to 1516 and Queen of Navarre from 1512 to 1516. She was Vicereine of Valencia from 1523 until her death in 1536, jointly with her second and third husbands, respectively Johann of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria. By her third marriage, she was Duchess of Calabria.

Johanna Maria van der Gheynst (also called Jeanne Marie van der Gheynst, Johanna Maria van der Gheenst; c. 1505 - 15 December 1541) was briefly the mistress of Emperor Charles V in 1521-1522 and the mother of one of his daughters, Margaret of Parma. Margaret served as Governor of the Spanish Netherlands from 1559 to 1567 and from 1580 to 1583.

Barbara Blomberg (1527 – 18 December 1597) was the mother of Don John of Austria.

Blomberg was born in Ratisbon (modern Germany), the eldest daughter of Wolfgang Plumberger or Blomberg, a burgher, and of his wife Sibilla Lohman. A singer, in 1546 she was for a short time the mistress of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, who was in Regensburg for the meeting of the Imperial Diet. On 24 February 1547 Blomberg gave birth to John of Austria, who was almost immediately taken from her and sent to be raised in Spain.

Shortly afterwards Blomberg married Hieronymus Kegel, an imperial official. In 1551 she moved to Brussels with her husband where Kegel was responsible for the equipment of the imperial mercenary army. They had three children.

When Kegel died in 1569, Blomberg and her children were in reduced financial circumstances. At the request of the governor of the Netherlands, the Duke of Alba, she was granted a pension by King Philip II of Spain (her oldest son's agnate half-brother).

In November 1576 Blomberg met her son John of Austria for the only time since his birth. Subsequently, she went into a Dominican convent in Castile, 70 km south of Valladolid. After John of Austria died in 1578, Philip II allowed her to choose her own residence. She established herself first in the village of Colindres. In 1584 she purchased an estate in the village of Ambrosero in Cantabria.

Blomberg died at the age of seventy at her estate in Ambrosero. She is buried in the Church of San Sebastian at the monastery of Montehano (also known as Convento San Sebastián de Hano), between Ambrosero and Santoña.

Orsolina della Penna (Perugia, 1500 – 1536?) è stata una nobildonna italiana ed amante dell'imperatore Carlo V.