Abstract
In 1557, Protestant groups were discovered in Seville and Valladolid. The Peace of Augsburg had ratified the ascription of an important part of the Empire to the new Lutheran creed, but the discoveries of the groups in Seville and Valladolid showed that Spain was threatened with the same heresy. The emperor is as much or more at fault than his son for the severe repression of Spanish Protestantism. Charles V, turning a deaf ear to the advice of his confessor, violated the Privilege granted in 1477 by his great-grandfather Charles the Bold, who had granted great autonomy to the Low Countries. The reaction to the problems discovered in Valladolid and Seville was neither new for the emperor or something Charles V had not been confronted with before. There had already been many lamentable analogous situations, with alarming effects, in the Flemish territories.
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