I have been listening a lot to Sabaton lately and particularly their song "Last stand" which is about the sack of Rome in the year of 1527. I've read a little bit of the event but it didn't touch about Charles V and the personal aftermath. He was probably catholic and that attack(even if the mercenaries was mutineers, right?) on the heartland of the Catholic Church must have had some serious impact in his empire and other catholic states(France for example?).
So what was the aftermath for Charles V and his reputation after the sack?
Thank you.
Follow-up question (pertaining to the Sack of Rome)
Do we know what happened to the officer of the Swiss Guard, Caspar Röist's family after his murder? I read somewhere that they lived in Rome with him, and that he returned to them before he died.
Also, love Sabaton, man. Check out Light in the Black.
Charles V was not only Catholic, but the last crowned Holy Roman Emperor (by the Pope himself, per custom) --- heir of the Roman imperium, suzerain, and the Catholic monarch. Sources indicate that he was mortified, but not so much by the sacrilege of the sack of Rome as by having been publicly seen to have lost control of his own soldiers. The Pope was generally treated very roughly even after the soldiers were brought back into line, with the territories of the papacy (Papal States) being dismembered and divvied up; he'd go on to spend the rest of his tenure trying to appease Charles, and some historians explicitly mention the sack of Rome as part of why Henry VIII of England was unable to convince the Pope to annul his first marriage (which precipitated the formation of the Church of England) -- wife #1, Katherine of Aragon, was the aunt of Charles V.