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  Philip III of Spain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Philip III (Spanish: Felipe III) (April 14, 1578 – March 31, 1621) was the king of Spain and Portugal (as Philip II Portuguese: Filipe II), from 1598 until his death.
Philip III married Margaret, sister of Ferdinand II.
Born at Madrid, the son of Philip II of Spain and his fourth wife, Anne, daughter of the emperor Maximilian II.
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 Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During the last dreadful period of the war, in 1644 Ferdinand III gave to all rulers of German states the right to conduct their own foreign policy (ius belli ac pacis).
Ferdinand married three times, first to his cousin, the Infanta Maria Anna of Spain, by whom he had two surviving sons: Ferdinand IV, his eldest, who predeceased him, and Leopold, who ultimately succeeded him.
She died in 1649, and Ferdinand married a third time, to Eleonora Gonzaga, daughter of the Duke of Mantua.
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 Charles III of Spain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Charles III (January 20, 1716 - December 14, 1788) was king of Spain from 1759 to 1788.
His strong family feeling and his detestation of England, which was unchecked after the death of his wife, Maria Amelia, daughter of Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, led him into the Family Compact with France.
Spain was entangled in the close of the Seven Years' War, to her great loss.
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 PHILIP III. OF SPAIN - LoveToKnow Article on PHILIP III. OF SPAIN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
PHILIP I., the Handsome (1478-1506), king of Spain, son of the emperor Maximilian I., and husband of Joanna the Mad, daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, was the founder of the Habsburg dynasty in Spain, and was born at Bruges on the 22nd of July 1478.
Philip was the father of the emperors Charles V. and Ferdinand I. (1527-1598) king of Spain, was born at Valladolid on the 2ist of May 1527.
The story told in the memoirs of the French ambassador Bassom-pierre, that he was killed by the heat of a brasero (a pan of hot charcoal), because the proper official to take it away was not at hand, is a humorous exaggeration of the formal etiquette of the court.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PH/PHILIP_III_OF_SPAIN.htm   (2817 words)

  
 Ferdinand V and Isabella I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Ferdinand had hoped by this alliance to obtain the Castilian crown for himself, but his high-spirited and politically astute wife firmly retained sovereign authority in her own realm.
The political philosophies of the two rulers were almost identical, however, and their reign was inaugurated with the promulgation of energetic and sweeping measures designed to strengthen the royal authority and to curb the power of the nobles, who had usurped many privileges and functions of the Crown.
In 1469 Princess Isabella married Ferdinand of Aragón, known also as Ferdinand V, The Catholic, and on the death of her brother, Henry IV, Isabella and Ferdinand jointly succeeded (1474) to the throne of Castile and León.
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 FERDINAND III. - LoveToKnow Article on FERDINAND III.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
(1608-1657), Roman emperor, was the elder son of the emperor Ferdinand II., and was born at Gratz on the I3th of July 1608.
In 1656 he sent an army into Italy to assist Spain in her struggle with France, and he had just concluded an alliance with Poland to check the aggressions of Charles X. of Sweden when he died on the 2nd of April 657.
Ferdinand was a scholarly and cultured man, an excellent linguist and a composer of music.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Ferdinand III
In 1217 Ferdinand became King of Castile, which crown his mother renounced in his favour, and in 1230 he succeeded to the crown of Leon, though not without civil strife, since many were opposed to the union of the two kingdoms.
The highest aims of Ferdinand's life were the propagation of the Faith and the liberation of Spain from the Saracen yoke.
Ferdinand was buried in the great cathedral of Seville before the image of the Blessed Virgin, clothed, at his own request, in the habit of the Third Order of St. Francis.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/06042a.htm   (452 words)

  
 Murcia (autonomous community) - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Murcia is one of Spain's seventeen autonomous communities, located in the southeast of the country between Andalucía and Valencia, on the Mediterranean coast.
Ferdinand III of Castile received the submission of the Moorish king king of Murcia in 1243.
Alfonso annexed the Kingdom of Murcia outright in 1266, and it remained technically a vassal kingdom of Spain until the reforms in the liberal constitution of 1812.
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 Ferdinand II
Ferdinand II King-consort of Castile from 1474 (as Ferdinand V), King of Aragon from 1479, and Ferdinand III of Naples from 1504.
Ferdinand conquered Naples 1500–03 and Navarre in 1512.
However, on Philip's death and Joanna's subsequent decline into madness, Ferdinand was recognized as ruler of Castile, establishing the rule of one man for all the kingdoms which became permanent under his grandson, Charles I of Spain (later Emperor Charles V).
www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0020973.html   (212 words)

  
 CHARLES III OF SPAIN FACTS AND INFORMATION
Charles III (January_20, 1716 – December_14, 1788) was king of Spain 1759–1788 (as Carlos III de Borbon), King of the Two_Sicilies 1735–1759 (as Carlo VII), and Duke of Parma 1732–1735 (as Carlo I).
It was his good fortune to be sent to rule as duke of Parma by right of his mother at the age of sixteen, and thus come under more intelligent influence than he could have found in Spain.
In spite of his hostility to the Jesuits, his dislike of friars in general, and his jealousy of the Spanish_Inquisition, he was a very sincere Roman Catholic, and showed much zeal in endeavouring to persuade the pope to proclaim the Immaculate_Conception as a dogma necessary to salvation.
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 Moorish Towns in southern Spain
In 929 Abd-ar-Rahman III established the caliphate of Córdoba, and the city reached a peak of prosperity, rivalling Damascus and Baghdad in its brilliance and intellectual activity.
city in southern Spain, capital of Granada Province in Andalusia, at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, at the confluence of the Genil and Darro rivers.
Adjoining the cathedral is the Royal Chapel containing the tombs of Ferdinand V and Isabella I, joint sovereigns of Castile.
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 Timeline Spain thru 1899
Spain’s Duke of Alba arrived in Brussels at the head of a 10,000 troops to quell the iconoclastic riots.
Spain’s Philip II was proclaimed King Philip I of Portugal and united the colonial empires of Spain and Portugal.
1667-1668 The War of Devolution was fought between France and Spain as a result of the claim by Louis XIV of France that the ownership of the Spanish Netherlands devolved to his wife, Marie Therese, upon the death of her father, Philip IV of Spain.
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 Charles III, king of Spain, and of Naples and Sicily. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Charles III, king of Spain, and of Naples and Sicily.
1716–88, king of Spain (1759–88) and of Naples and Sicily (1735–59), son of Philip V and Elizabeth Farnese.
Recognized as duke of Parma and Piacenza in 1731, he relinquished the duchies to Austria after Spain reconquered (1734) Naples and Sicily in the War of the Polish Succession.
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 Philip III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
1621, Madrid), king of Spain and of Portugal (as Philip II) whose reign (1598-1621) was characterized by a successful peaceful foreign policy in western Europe and internally by the expulsion of the Moriscos (Christians of Moorish ancestry) and government by the King's favourites.
Philip was the son of Philip II of Spain by his fourth consort, his Habsburg cousin Anna of Austria.
Peace in the West enabled the government to deal with the internal problem of the Moriscos; and on April 9, 1609, the decision was made for their expulsion, which caused serious economic and demographic difficulties in certain areas.
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 The reign of Philip III (from Spain) --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It was the tragedy of Spain that its ruling classes failed to respond to the social and political problems of the age as creatively as its writers and artists.
king of Spain and of Portugal (as Philip II) whose reign (1598–1621) was characterized by a successful peaceful foreign policy in western Europe and internally by the expulsion of the Moriscos (Christians of Moorish ancestry) and government by the King's favourites.
Spain is bordered on the west by Portugal; in the northeast it borders France, from which it is separated by the tiny principality of Andorra and by the great wall of the Pyrenees Mountains.
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 Personalities of Louisiana: Charles III of Spain
Ferdinand VI is the new king of Spain and the Indies.
Ferdinand is closer to his uncle Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia.
Ferdinand's wife, the queen, is a daughter of Maria Teresa and has inherited that family's love of intrigue.
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 AllRefer.com - Ferdinand III, Spanish king of Castile and LeOn (Spanish And Portuguese History, Biography) - ...
Ferdinand III 1199–1252, Spanish king of Castile (1217–52) and LeOn (1230–52), son of Alfonso IX of LeOn and Berenguela of Castile.
At the death (1217) of her brother, Henry I of Castile, Berenguela renounced her right of succession in Ferdinand's favor.
Ferdinand was planning an expedition to Morocco when he died and was succeeded by his son, Alfonso X. In 1671, Ferdinand was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.
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 El Escorial and Valley of the Fallen, Spain  - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Philip's intention was to build a royal burial place for the monarchs of Spain in accordance with the wishes of his father, Emperor Charles V, and to honor a vow he had made to build a church dedicated to Saint Lawrence.
In 756, Abd-ar-Rahman I, a member of the Umayyad family, made Córdoba the capital of Moorish Spain, and for the next 250 years the city was one of the world's great commercial and intellectual centers.
In 929Abd-ar-Rahman III established the caliphate of Córdoba, and the city reached a peak of prosperity, rivaling Damascus and Baghdâd in its brilliance and intellectual activity.
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 ipedia.com: Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (July 13, 1608 - April 2, 1657), ruled February 15, 1637 - 1657.
He hoped to be able to quickly make peace with France and Sweden, but the war dragged on for another 11 years, finally coming to an end with the Peace of Westphalia (Treaty of Münster with France, Treaty of Osnabrück with Sweden) in 1648.
Ferdinand married three times - first to his cousin, the Infanta Maria Anna of Spain, by whom he had two surviving sons - Ferdinand IV, his eldest, who predeceased him, and Leopold, who ultimately succeeded him.
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 Montagues in America
of Gen'l Thomas Montagu] and was drowned in a barrel of wine; Richard III., King of England; Anne, married to the Duke of Exeter; Margaret, married to Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy; and Elizabeth, married to John De-La-Pole, Duke of Suffolk, who had by her, two sons; John, Earl of Lincoln, Lord Lieut.
She was the grandmother of Isabel, wife of George Duke of Clarence, and of Anne, wife first of Edward son of Henry VI., second, of King Richard III.
From her also was descended Edward Earl of Warwick, beheaded at the age of 15 by Henry VII.; Margaret Countess of Salisbury, beheaded at the age of 70 by Henry VIII., Cardinal Reginald Poole, who was elected Pope at Rome, and others.
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The last news from Madrid says that a Carlist rising is feared, and that Spain dares not send any more of her soldiers out of the country to help in the Cuban war.
There is a general idea that while Spain will never withdraw her troops from Cuba, and allow that she is beaten, she will quietly drop the war, sending no more men or money to help carry it on, and leaving the Spaniards who are in Cuba to shift for themselves.
With great reluctance Spain is sending a small force out, but it is understood that she can send no more men, and no money.
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 Patron Saints Index: Saint Ferdinand III of Castille
Son of Alfonso IX, King of Leon, and Berengaria, daughter of King Alfonso III of Castile.
In his later years, Ferdinand's father desired to return to his throne, and he turned against Ferdinand; he eventually gave up the idea, however, and the two reconciled.
A man of great faith and devotion, especially to Our Lady, Ferdinand founded and funded hospitals, bishoprics, monasteries, and churches.
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 Catholic Online
Ferdinand III of Castile was the son of Alfonso IX, King of Leon, and Berengaria, daughter of Alfonso III, King of Castile (Spain).
Ferdinand was born near Salamanca; proclaimed king of Palencia, Valladolid, and Burgos; his mother advised and assisted him during his young reign.
Ferdinand was a great administrator and a man of deep faith.
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 Philip V, king of Spain
Spain's foreign policy continued to be governed to a large extent by dynastic ambition and became successful so far as the house of
Spain's entry into the War of the Austrian Succession was preceded (1739) by the outbreak of the War of
Philip II of Spain champion of catholicism: David McKinnon-Bell assesses the degree to which Philip II's policies were motivated by religious zeal.
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 The Dayrits of San Fernando
It was founded in 1754 during the reign of King Ferdinand VI, and was placed under
the patronage of King Ferdinand III of Spain, a soldier and saint.
The town was not that prominent during the Spanish regime for the reason that Bacolor was still the provincial capital.
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 The Missions Trail
The original vaulted roof was of a Moorish design patterned after the cathedral at Cordova, Spain, with slender capped buttresses and a six-belled campanario.
The hammered copper baptismal font was a gift of King Carlos III of Spain and the six priceless altar statues were brought around the Horn from Spain in 1791.
Located about 40 miles south of San Francisco, the main garden is devoted to tree roses, a mission tradition, and the string of willows planted along the miles between the mission and the pueblo of San Jose is today a well-traveled San Jose street known as The Alameda.
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 Frequently Asked Questions: San Fernando
The mission, the seventeenth to be established in California, was named in honor of King Ferdinand III, the thirteenth king of Castile and Leon in Spain.
Though a priest named Francisco Garcés crossed the upper part of the valley in 1776, the area near what is now San Fernando really became settled after a party in 1797 went in search of a new mission on the way to the San Gabriel Mission.
Keeping watch over the altar was the original statue of the canonized King Ferdinand III of Spain, the mission's namesake.
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 The California Mission of San Fernando Rey de España
Mission San Fernando Rey de España, located on San Fernando Mission Boulevard in Mission Hills, California, was founded on September 8, 1797 by Father Fermin Lasuén, then Father-presidente of the mission chain.
The mission was named for Saint Ferdinand III, King of Spain, who lived in the 1200's.
The grapevines had originally come from Spain, but were brought north by the missionaries from the Baja missions in Mexico.
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