Charles II[a] (6 November 1661 – 1 November 1700)[b] was King of Spain from 1665 to 1700. The last monarch from the House of Habsburg, which had ruled Spain since 1516, he died without children, leading to a European conflict over his successor. For reasons still debated, Charles ...
An autopsy showed that the King had developed cancer and that it had spread through his entire abdominal cavity.[51] Legacy Statue of Charles XI in Karlskrona Charles XI has sometimes been described in Sweden as the greatest of all the Swedish kings, except for Gustavus II Adolphus, ...