Wasn’t it an unstable mess, especially thanks to France being between the two parts of Charles V’s european lands?
TheHistoryMaster2520 on
To be fair, his thought process was probably that the empire was too large to administer by one guy, and that the Habsburg dynasty would be better off split into multiple branches with the same end goal anyway
Vector_Strike on
Charlie’s main mistake was giving the Low Countries to Philip instead of Ferdinand. Doing that would save SO MUCH trouble… _80 years_ of them, methinks.
Ok_Specialist3202 on
His brother was basically running the German side of the empire anyway
monkeygoneape on
Gavelkind, the one thing that will never make sense to me
Germanicus15BC on
Don’t get me started about Charlemagne…..
SherabTod on
Charles was burned out during his reign, I can’t blame him for not passing on the burden to one single successor
abfgern_ on
Wasn’t really an empire, more of a property portfolio. Each area had basically nothing to do with each other, they just happened to have the same king, and he never even attempted to integrate them together
PopoLocopo on
To be fair from what I remember he was exhausted af and had to move around because there’s so much things he needed to handle.
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Come on man just let them kill each other
Wasn’t it an unstable mess, especially thanks to France being between the two parts of Charles V’s european lands?
To be fair, his thought process was probably that the empire was too large to administer by one guy, and that the Habsburg dynasty would be better off split into multiple branches with the same end goal anyway
Charlie’s main mistake was giving the Low Countries to Philip instead of Ferdinand. Doing that would save SO MUCH trouble… _80 years_ of them, methinks.
His brother was basically running the German side of the empire anyway
Gavelkind, the one thing that will never make sense to me
Don’t get me started about Charlemagne…..
Charles was burned out during his reign, I can’t blame him for not passing on the burden to one single successor
Wasn’t really an empire, more of a property portfolio. Each area had basically nothing to do with each other, they just happened to have the same king, and he never even attempted to integrate them together
To be fair from what I remember he was exhausted af and had to move around because there’s so much things he needed to handle.