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 Emperor Charles V and his Vast Realms 567 Ferdinand died in 15 16, and Charles, now a lad of sixteen, who had been born and reared in the Netherlands, was much bewildered when he first landed in his Spanish dominions. The Burgundian advisers whom he brought with him were distasteful Charles and his Spanish possessions Fig. 20 Titian to the haughty Spaniards, to whom, of course, they were for- eigners; suspicion and opposition awaited him in each of his several Spanish kingdoms, for he found by no means a united Spain. Each kingdom demanded special recognition of its rights and proposed important reforms before it would acknowledge Charles as its king.