For six months all the arts of diplomacy were exhausted by the various candidates, and Charles of Spain won the prize.

On the 28th of June, 1519, he was unanimously elected Emperor of Germany.

The youthful sovereign, who was but nineteen years of age, was at Barcelona when he received the first intelligence of his election.

He had sufficient strength of character to avoid the slightest appearance of exultation, but received the announcement with dignity and gravity far above his years.
The Spaniards were exceedingly excited and alarmed by the news.

They feared that their young sovereign, of whom they had already begun to be proud, would leave Spain to establish his court in the German empire, and they should thus be left, as a distant province, to the government of a viceroy.