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1527 Sack of Rome
Season 1 · Episode 33

1527 Sack of Rome

The Holy Roman Empire vs the Papacy ends with the brutal 1527 sacking of Rome

History Dispatches

April 17, 202523m 35s

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Show Notes

In May of 1527, 20,000 mutinous soldiers of Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire descended on Rome. What would follow was the absolute devastation of the city and its population, the gutting of the power of the Papacy, and the end of the High Renaissance era.


Sources


Medievalists.net: https://www.medievalists.net/2022/06/sack-rome-1527/

Smart History: https://smarthistory.org/sack-of-rome/

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Rome_(1527)

Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Sack_of_Rome.jpg


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