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The Empire which Charles V left was split between his son Philip who held the Americas, Spain, the Spanish Netherlands, and Spanish Italy (Naples and Milan), and his brother Ferdinand (Philip’s uncle) who headed the Habsburg German properties in the East and who was also Holy Roman Emperor from 1556 to 1564.
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M. Gachard (éd.), Correspondance du Duc d’Albe (Bruxelles et Leipzig: 1850 ), p. 137.
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Allen, E.J.B. (1972). Spanish Diplomatic Couriers. In: Post and Courier Service in the Diplomacy of Early Modern Europe. Archives Internationales D’Histoire Des Idees / International Archives of the History of Ideas, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2847-9_6
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