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By the time he was six, Charles was already Lord of the Netherlands, a collection of semi-autonomous states that included Flanders, Brabant and Holland. When he was 16, he became co-monarch of Spain and its many dominions. And by 19, he would become Holy Roman Emperor, a title he acquired after bribing the princes who were the electors.

Charles V [c] [d] (24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558) was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, King of Spain from 1516 to 1556, and Lord of the Netherlands as titular Duke of Burgundy from 1506 to 1555. He was heir to and then head of the rising House of Habsburg during the first half of the 16th century.

The Emirate of Granada, also known as the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada, was an Islamic realm in the southern Iberian Peninsula during the Late Middle Ages, ruled by the Nasrid dynasty. It was the last independent Muslim state in Western Europe. [2]

Ferdinand I (10 March 1503 – 25 July 1564) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1556, King of Bohemia, Hungary, and Croatia from 1526, and Archduke of Austria from 1521 until his death in 1564.

Henry II (5 March 1133 – 6 July 1189) was King of England from 1154 until his death in 1189.

In the Abrahamic religions ( Judaism, Christianity, and Islam ), Gabriel ( / ˈɡeɪbriəl / GAY-bree-əl) [N 2] is an archangel with the power to announce God's will to men. He is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Quran.