Mother Mariana of Austria Religion Catholic Signature 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...
language=engThe death of King Charles II, the Bewitched, ended two centuries of sovereignity of the Habsburg dynasty in Spain. Since his birth in 1661, he presented a peculiar set of physical, psychiatric and behavioral signs, such as respiratory and diarrheal diseases, recurrent seizures and ...
He became heir to the throne on the death of his older brother Henry in 1612 and was made prince of Wales in 1616. The negotiations for his marriage to the Spanish infanta were unpopular in England, and Charles himself turned against Spain after his unhappy visit to Madrid (1623) in the...
on the 17th of April 1711, Charles inherited the hereditary possessions of the house of Habsburg, and their claims on the Empire. The death of Joseph without male issue had been foreseen, and Charles had at one time been prepared to give up Spain and the Indies on condition that he was ...
(see underPoynings, Sir Edward), thus giving Ireland legislative independence. He quarreled with the earl ofShelburneover the negotiation of peace with the former American colonies, France, and Spain, and he resigned when Shelburne succeeded Rockingham. Fox then allied himself with his old enemy, ...
Spain. The Commons, however, responded coldly. Charles had lent ships to Louis XIII. to be used against the Protestants at LaRochelle, and the Commons were not aware of the subterfuges and fictitious delays intended to prevent their employment. The Protestant feelings of the Commons were also ...
It’s only a game. Today we expect more from our entertainment: love and death, fire and blood. Lives at stake. Who wouldn’t get tired of going out to see people in the same old outfits going through the moves? Fans did, even the most committed ones. The times demand narrative. We...
Robert Rowe, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. THE DUCHESS OF BERRY AND THE COURT OF CHARLES X BY IMBERT DE SAINT-AMAND CONTENTS I. THE ACCESSION OF CHARLES X II. THE ENTRY INTO PARIS III. THE TOMBS OF SAINT-DENIS IV. THE FUNER
Charles also disagreed with Parliament when it came to the treatment of royal favoriteGeorge Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham. Parliament was suspicious of the duke, believing he influenced Charles's rash foreign policies as England fought wars with both Spain and France. Parliament tried to get ...
Frankie asks her why she suddenly called him, "The trouble with you is that you pretend you don't care about things but you do. You were very upset about Vicki’s death weren't You? He tells her he'd like to find the guy, –“Save the State on its electric bill. She was a ...