. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. h the pope and made war on theProtestants, whom he defeated at the battle of Miihlberg in 1547. Tn the following year, at theDiet of Augsburg, he proposedthe famous Interim, whichwas unsatisfactory to both sidesand was soon after 1552 he signed the treaty ofPassan, which was soon follow- Peace of Keligion. ed by the Wear
. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. h the pope and made war on theProtestants, whom he defeated at the battle of Miihlberg in 1547. Tn the following year, at theDiet of Augsburg, he proposedthe famous Interim, whichwas unsatisfactory to both sidesand was soon after 1552 he signed the treaty ofPassan, which was soon follow- Peace of Keligion. ed by the Wearied with incessant caresand activitv, Charles in 1555resigned his hereditary statesof the Netherlands to his sonPhilip at Brussels. In the fol-lowing year he gave up Spain,and a few months after the imperial dignity. He then returnedto Spain* and early in 1557 retired to a monastery In August, 1558, he is said to have had his own obsequies cele-brated, and he died a few weeks later. Charles V. was a man ofgreat intelligence and superior culture, had considerable acquaint-ance with literature and art, and patronized those eminent ineither. He was ambitious but humane, and pursued a temporizingpolicy in the great religious struggle of his Francis I., King of France, succeeded to the throne m 1515 atthe age of twenty-one. On the death of the Emperor Maximilian,Francis I. and Charles, King of Spain, were rival candidates for theempire, and the latter was elected. In 1520 took place the fa-mous interview between Henry VIII. and Francis I. which, fromthe splendor of the display on both sides, is known as the interviewof the Field of the Cloth of Gold. A war afterwards broke outbetween Francis and Charles V., in which Francis lost a considera-ble part of his territories, was made prisoner at the battle of Pavia,and conveyed to Madrid. In 152G he regained his liberty after re- CONNECTED WITH RELIGIOUS HISTORY. 77 nouncing his claim to Naples, the Milanese, Burgund
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