with Emperor Charles V, the Holy Roman Empire, and the pope, Kirsten Claiden-Yardley shed some light. “When Henry VIII declared himself head of the Church of England, rather than recognizing ...

Holy Roman Emperor Charles V resigns, retires to a monastery – Jan ... Luther after he was excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church. “He would continue as an intermediary between Luther ...

Holy Roman Emperor Charles V used an ingenious code to keep his messages secret (Credit: AFP / Jean-Christophe Verhaegen) A team of French researchers have cracked a secret code used by Holy Roman ...

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 ...

French scientists have decoded a letter written in 1547 by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. The three-page letter uncovers secrets of the 16th century, including assassination fears. It took the ...

A letter written in secret code by Charles V, the former King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor, has finally been deciphered by cryptographers after almost five centuries. The frustratingly ...

In 1521, in the imperial free city of Worms, the firebrand Augustinian friar Martin Luther stood before Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, then the head of and heir to the House of Habsburg ...

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 ...