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Charles V European Prize
Awarded for
commitment to the process of the European union or contribution to the exaltation of the cultural, scientific and historical values of Europe.
The Charles V European Award[1] is awarded by the European Academy of Yuste Foundation.[2] The award is delivered to those individuals, organisations, projects or initiatives[3] who "with their effort and dedication, have contributed to the general understanding and appreciation of the cultural, scientific values, historians of Europe, as well as the process of unification of the European Community".[4]
The award bears the name of Charles V of Habsburg. Charles was crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, in the Aachen palatine chapel,[5] the same place where previously Charlemagne had been crowned. Charles, born in Ghent (Flanders, Belgium) and of Spanish and German ancestors, ruled the Netherlands, Spain, Germany and other nations of Central Europe in the 16th century. He was a polyglot (speaking French, Dutch, Latin, Spanish, Italian, and German) and a believer in the medieval idea of a united Christian Europe.
He spent his last days suffering gout in the Monastery of Yuste, in the Spanish region of Extremadura, where he died in 1558.[6]
This award was established in 1995,[7] to highlight the European spirit of Spain, similarly to other European prizes such as the Charlemagne Prize, awarded by the city of Aachen since 1950, and was presented to King Juan Carlos I in 1982.