The war was primarily a struggle to determine whether the vast possessions of the Spanish Empire should pass to the House of Bourbon or to the House of Habsburg, both of which had dynastic claims, or whether they should be partitioned to preserve the balance of power in Europe. The ...
Charles was not unmindful of Sweden’s role in central and western Europe; his support of the Silesian Protestants against the Catholic Habsburg emperor was firmly based on the Swedish guarantee of thePeace of Westphalia, and he continued that policy of the “balancing role” between the great ...
Brandon, Charles, first duke of Suffolk (c. 1484–1545), magnate, courtier, and soldier, was the second but only surviving son of Sir William Brandon (d. 1485) and his wife, Elizabeth Bruyn (d. 1494) of South Ockendon. The manner of Sir William's death, killed at Bosworth bearing He...
He was the second son of the emperor Leopold I. by his third marriage with Eleanore, daughter of Philip William of Neuburg, elector palatine of the Rhine. When the Spanish branch of the house of Habsburg became extinct in 1700, he was put forward as the lawful heir in opposition to ...
1661-1700. The last Habsburg King of Spain and the ruler of nearly all of Italy, the Spanish territories in the Southern Low Countries, and Spain's overseas Empire, stretching from Mexico to the Philippines.
The Early Life of Charles V Charles V was born in Ghent, Flanders, Habsburg Netherlands, on February 24, 1500. He was born into a royal family. His parents were Philip the Handsome and Joanna of Castile. His maternal grandparents were Ferdinand II and Isabella I, the Roman Catholic king ...
In 1720 Emperor Charles VI of Habsburg announced the Resolution as the response to complains and petitions of the Serb People and the Church Council, held in 1718. This Resolution contains 22 items, divided into two parts. The first part deals mostly with the problems of populatio...
As if to make plain the parallels between Charles III and his illustrious 16th-century ancestor, the exhibition ‘Charles III: Majesty and Ornament’ at theRoyal Palace of Madrid(until 31 March) has at its heart a recreation of the room in which the king, following Habsburg custom, lay in...
In this “portable atlas,” de la Feuille documented the intricacies of the War of Spanish Succession (1701-14), which began after the Habsburg king of Spain, Charles II, died and left [...] wdl.org 在这份“便携式地图集”中,de la Feuille 记载 了错综复杂的西班牙王位继承战争(1701-14 ...
In 1616, four years later his brother’s death, Charles inherited the title Prince of Wales. In the 1620s, James tried to negotiate a marriage between Charles and King Ferdinand of Spain’s niece, Habsburg princess Maria Anna of Spain. Charles and the Duke of Buckingham made an incognito ...