Charles V, King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor Nicholas II Plate 31 from Fossilium Metalla

Plate 31 from Fossilium Metalla Et Res Metallicas Concernentium Glebae Suis Coloribus Expressae by Casimir Christoph Schmiedel (Nuremberg

the Royal Society's first home

aged 83 years

which opened in 1512

Charles V, King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor Nicholas II Plate 31 from Fossilium MetallaCharles V, King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor, (1816). Crowned King Charles I of Spain in 1516, he was the founder of the Habsburg dynasty. He became Holy Roman Emperor in 1519. A print from Fifteen Splendid Portraits of Royal Personages, engraved in mezzotinto by Richard Earlom, Charles Turner and R Dunkarton, printed by J McCreery, Black Horse Court, Fleet Street, London, 1816.