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  Philip III Of Spain - LoveToKnow 1911
(1578-1621), king of Spain, son of Philip II.
The new king put the direction of his government entirely into the hands of his favourite, the duke of Lerma, and when he fell under the influence of Lerma's son, the duke of Uceda, in 1518, he trusted himself and his states to the new favourite.
The story told in the memoirs of the French ambassador Bassompierre, 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.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Philip III of Spain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Philip was preparing to crush the last flicker of the rebellion in Brunswick when he was murdered at Bamberg, on the 2ist of June 1208, by Otto of Wittelsbach, count palatine in Bavaria, to whom h^ had refused the hand of one of his daughters.
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. king of Spain, was born at Valladolid on the 2ist of May 1527.
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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 and Algarves (as Philip II Portuguese: Filipe II), from 1598 until his death.
Philip III married Margaret (Margarita of Austria), sister of Ferdinand II.
Born at Madrid, the son of Philip II of Spain and his fourth wife Anna, (also his niece) daughter of the Emperor Maximilian II and Maria of Spain.
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 The Kings of Spain and the Spanish Colonial Era in America Philip II, Philip III, Philip IV. Philip V, Charles II, ...
Philip's half-brother, John of Austria (1545-78), defeated the Ottomans at the battle of Lepanto (1571), and Tunis was captured and held briefly (1573-74).
Philip IV Philip IV, 1605—65, king of Spain, Naples, and Sicily (1621—65) and, as Philip III, king of Portugal (1621—40); son and successor of Philip III of Spain.
Spain prospered under the rule of Charles, who is regarded as the greatest Bourbon king of Spain and one of the “enlightened despots.” His reign is noted for economic and administrative reforms and for the expulsion of the Jesuits (1767).
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Philip III of Spain
Philip III 1578-1621, king of Spain, Naples, and Sicily (1598-1621) and, as Philip II, king of Portugal (1598-1621); son and successor of Philip II of Spain.
Philip IV 1605-65, king of Spain, Naples, and Sicily (1621-65) and, as Philip III, king of Portugal (1621-40); son and successor of Philip III of Spain.
Charles V 1500-1558, Holy Roman emperor (1519-58) and, as Charles I, king of Spain (1516-56); son of Philip I and Joanna of Castile, grandson of Ferdinand II of Aragón, Isabella of Castile, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, and Mary of Burgundy.
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 Philip IV of Spain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Philip IV (Felipe IV), (April 8, 1605 – September 17, 1665) was King of Spain from 1621 to 1665 and also King of Portugal until 1640.
The eldest son of Philip III and his wife Margarita of Austria, Philip IV was born at Valladolid.
Philip IV died broken-hearted in 1665, expressing the pious hope that his surviving son, Carlos, would be more fortunate than himself.
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 Philip III of Spain
Philip III (April 14, 1578 - March 31, 1621) was king of Spain.
Born at Madrid, the son of Philip II of Spain and his fourth wife, Anne, daughter of the emperor Maximilian II.
The old king had sorrowfully confessed that God had not given him a son capable of governing his vast dominions, and had foreseen that Philip III would be led by his servants.
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 AllRefer.com - Philip IV, king of Spain, Naples, and Sicily (Spanish And Portuguese History, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Philip IV 1605–65, king of Spain, Naples, and Sicily (1621–65) and, as Philip III, king of Portugal (1621–40); son and successor of Philip III of Spain.
Philip IV was intelligent but lacked interest in the affairs of state, which were handled (until 1643) by the conde de Olivares.
Spain had to recognize the independence of the United Provinces of the Netherlands at the Peace of Westphalia and lost Roussillon and part of the Spanish Netherlands to France at the Peace of the Pyrenees.
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 Philip V of Spain Summary
Philip was recognized as the legitimate king of Spain; in return he gave up all claims to the throne of France and surrendered the Spanish Low Countries, Naples, and Sicily to the Austrians, and Gibraltar to the British.
On Sept. 16, 1714, Philip was married by proxy to the 21-year-old Elizabeth Farnese of Parma.
Although Philip was allowed to remain on the Spanish throne, the war cost Spain the possession of Minorca in the Balearic Islands as well as Gibraltar to Great Britain and the Spanish Netherlands, Naples, Milan, and Sardinia to the Austrian Habsburgs; Sicily and parts of the Milanese to Savoy.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Philip II (King of Spain)
At a solemn conference held at Brussels, 22 Oct., 1555, Charles V ceded to Philip the Low Countries, the crowns of Castille, Aragon, and Sicily, on 16 Jan., 1556, and the countship of Burgundy on the tenth of June.
Philip granted this on the most favourable terms and the Duke of Alva was even obliged to ask the pope's pardon for having invaded the Pontifical States.
Philip wished to force them to renounce their language and dress, whereupon they revolted and engagedin a bloody struggle against Spain which lasted three years (1567-70) until ended by Don Juan, natural son of Charles V.
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 Ancestors and Family of Philip III of Spain Habsburg
The old king had sorrowfully confessed that God had not given him a son capable of governing his vast dominions, and had foreseen that Philip III would be led by his servants.
The new king put the direction of his government entirely into the hands of his favourite, the duke of Lerma, and when he fell under the influence of Lerma's son, the duke of Uceda, in 1618, he trusted himself and his states to the new favourite.
Philip married Margaret of Austria Habsburg, daughter of Charles of Austria Habsburg and Maria Anna of Bavaria, on 18 Apr 1599.
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 Philip II, king of Spain, Naples, and Sicily. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Philip ascended the Spanish throne on the abdication of his father, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, who had previously made over to him Naples and Sicily, the Low Countries, Franche-Comté, and the duchy of Milan.
Philip’s half-brother, John of Austria (1545–78), defeated the Ottomans at the battle of Lepanto (1571), and Tunis was captured and held briefly (1573–74).
The only major military success of Philip’s later reign was the conquest of Portugal, to which he had a claim as the son of Isabella of Portugal, daughter of Manuel I. When King Henry of Portugal died (1580) without issue, Alba overran the country, and Philip was recognized as king by the Portuguese Cortes.
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 Philip V, king of Spain. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Spain’s foreign policy continued to be governed to a large extent by dynastic ambition and became successful so far as the house of Bourbon was concerned.
Spain’s entry into the War of the Austrian Succession was preceded (1739) by the outbreak of the War of Jenkins’s Ear with Great Britain.
Under Philip, Spain began to recover from the economic stagnation of the 17th cent., especially after the rise (1743) of the reforming minister Ensenada.
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 Philip III
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.
Philip's government continued a policy of hostility to the Turks, and in Italy it faced the rivalry of the Republic of Venice and the Duchy of Savoy.
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 Philip II of Spain - Timeline Index
Philip II, the self-proclaimed leader of Counter-Reformation, assumed the throne in 1556 with a great deal of potential, inheriting from his uncle Ferdinand the Habsburg lands in Austria together with the imperial crown of the Holy Roman Empire, thus inheriting the Netherlands, Franche-Comté, Naples, Sicily, and Milan.
Maximilian was born in Vienna as the son of the Emperor Frederick III and Eleanore of Portugal.
Philip III, King of Spain, King of Portugal, King of Naples and Sicily was the king of Spain and Portugal and Algarves (as Philip II Portuguese: Filipe II), from 1598 unt...
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 AllRefer.com - Philip III, king of Spain, Naples, and Sicily (Spanish And Portuguese History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Philip III 1578–1621, king of Spain, Naples, and Sicily (1598–1621) and, as Philip II, king of Portugal (1598–1621); son and successor of Philip II of Spain.
In Italy, however, Spain was involved in war (1615–17) with Savoy over Montferrat and in clashes with Venice.
Philip III was succeeded by his son, Philip IV.
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 ::Economy under Phillip III::
Philip II had seriously drained Spain’s resources and Philip III had inherited his father’s legacy.
It was stated in the open that the Spain of the C17th was not as strong as the Spain in the C16th.
By 1618 - the start of the Thirty Years War - Spain’s impact on European policy was limited and her involvement in the war as a whole was not that expected from a great power.
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 Philip III, king of Spain, Naples, and Sicily. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Philip III, king of Spain, Naples, and Sicily.
1578–1621, king of Spain, Naples, and Sicily (1598–1621) and, as Philip II, king of Portugal (1598–1621); son and successor of Philip II of Spain.
Philip’s reign saw a growing decline in Spain’s economy, partly as a result of the expulsion (1609–14) of the Moriscos, while the grandees accumulated huge estates and the church prospered.
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 HistoryMole: King Philip II (1527-1598)
Philip lived and died in his strange court at the Escorial and was eventually succeeded by Philip III, his son by his fourth wife, Anne of Austria.
1568 CE The revolt of the Moriscos in Spain.
Philip II of Spain was proclaimed King of Portugal and united the colonial empires of Spain and Portugal.
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 Drew Spencer Family Tree - aqwg108
Philip III King of Spain [Parents] was born 1578 in Madrid, Spain.
Margaret married Philip III King of Spain on 1599.
Philip IV King of Spain was born 1605 and died 1665.
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 Sitios de Felipe III | Historia y Presente
Philip III of Spain (II of Portugal) and; Philip III of Portugal (IV of Spain).
Philip III of Spain Spanish (and Portuguese) Royalty House of Habsburg Charles I...
Philip III of Spain 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...
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 Philip III of Spain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The old king had sorrowfully confessed that God had not given him a son capable ofgoverning his vast dominions, and had foreseen that Philip III would be led by his servants.
The new king put the direction of his government entirely into the hands of his favourite, the duke of Lerma, and when he fellunder the influence of Lerma's son, the duke of Uceda, in 1618, he trusted himself and his states to the new favourite.
The story told in the memoirs of the French ambassador Bassompierre, that he was killedby the heat of a brasero (a pan of hot charcoal), because the proper official to take it away was not at hand, is a humorousexaggeration of the formal etiquette of the court.
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 Charles III of Spain Summary
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).
Spain was entangled in the close of the Seven Years' War, to her great loss.
Charles III married Maria Amalia of Saxony (1724-1760), daughter of Augustus III of Poland in 1738.
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 Philip IV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Philip dismissed Olivares in 1643 and replaced him with Don Luis Méndez de Haro, who remained in office until his death in 1661.
Philip's first wife was Elizabeth (Spanish, Isabel), daughter of Henry IV of France; after her death in 1644, he married Maria Anna (Mariana), daughter of the Holy Roman emperor Ferdinand III.
A poet and patron of the arts, Philip was the friend and patron of the painter Velázquez, many of whose works portray Philip and members of his court.
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 Philip III and the Pax Hispanica 1598-1621   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Philip III re-formed the councils of advisors in Madrid and used them to wrestle with these difficulties.
Philip III and his council of state in Madrid had predicted that the Dutch republic would split into feuding provinces once a relative peace arrived.
The policy, however, was consistent with the aims that Philip III and his advisors had arrived at to achieve their political and religious aims; thus, the book argues that one should not view the resumption of war as a failure of Spanish policy.
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 Education World® - *History : By Region : Europe : Spain : Famous People : General Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Philip III of Spain and Naples MSN Encarta Article describes the policies of the king of Spain, Naples, and Sicily from 15981621, and as Philip II, king of Portugal.
Philip IV of Spain, Naples, and Sicily MSN Encarta Describes the beleaguered reign of this king of Spain, Naples, and Sicily from 1621 to 1665, and of Portugal from 1621 to 1640.
Philip V of Spain MSN Encarta Grandson of French king Louis XIV threatened the balance of power in Europe when he became king of Spain in 1700, uniting the two thrones.
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