Personal Union of Aragon and Castile (Habsburg): All Data

This page is about the data available for this polity; the chronology of its events is available here.

King Charles I, also Holy Roman Emperor as Charles V, in 1516 inherited both Castile and Aragon. At the same time his territories also encompassed the Habsburg Domains in central Europe and in the Low Countries. Realizing the difficulty posed by the administration of such a large territory, Charles V divided his empire shortly before his death: his son Philipp II received Spain, the Low Countries and the Spanish Colonies, and his brother Ferdinand I received the Austrian possessions and the Holy Roman Crown.