The Emperor’s secret message was about his impending attempt on the life of his enemies, the French.
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Charles V (1500-1558) was one of the most powerful monarchs of the 16th century. He ruled for more than 40 years a huge empire that occupied most of Western Europe and the Americas. It can be said that Charles V was the first ruler of a transatlantic state.
Scientists from the LORIA Research Institute in France spent half a year deciphering a letter that the emperor wrote to his ambassador in France in 1547. During this historical period, in the first half of the 16th century, there was a constant tension between Spain and France, which was then ruled by King Francis I, accompanied by a series of wars.
Charles’ letter to the French ambassador, Jean de Saint-Maurice, has been forgotten for centuries in one of the libraries in Nancy, France. Cryptographer Cecile Piero of the LORIA Research Institute only became aware of the existence of this letter in 2019. And only a few years of research led him to this document.
According to Piero, what the emperor wrote in the letter was both cryptic and completely incomprehensible because Charles V used secret symbols. Six months of painstaking work made it possible to isolate as many as 120 mysterious characters found in the letter.
“In the letter, all the words were encrypted, the emperor replaced some of the letters with mysterious signs, most likely inspired by the Arabic language. There were also symbols that had absolutely no meaning, and all together it shows that the emperor wanted to hide the truth in this way. meaning,” says Piero.
A breakthrough in deciphering the letter came after scientists deciphered an entire sentence so they were able to crack the emperor’s secret cipher. The scientists were also assisted in deciphering another letter that the ambassador in France sent back to the emperor. In this message, scientists discovered the key to unlocking the code.
“This is truly a unique situation, because we managed to read a letter that no one else could read for 500 years. The letter says that relations between Francis I and Charles V deteriorated in 1547, despite the peace treaty they signed in 1544. But the relations between them are still so strained. nervous, the letter says there were rumors of a conspiracy by the French to assassinate Charles V,” says Piero.
There are no precise details about this conspiracy in the letter, but the emperor expressed strong concerns about it. Scholars now hope to decipher other correspondence between the emperor and his ambassador to gain a better idea of Charles V’s policies in Europe.
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