Philip II was a fervent defender of the Catholic faith and a strong patron of the arts. What did Philip II of Spain conquer? Philip II of Spain attempted to conquer England in 1588 in order to replace Elizabeth I, a Protestant queen, with a Catholic monarch. He sent the Spanish Armada,...
Since Charles was a legal minor when Philip died on 17 September 1665, Mariana was appointed Queen Regent by the Council of Castile. The Spanish Empire remained an enormous global confederation, but its economic supremacy was increasingly challenged by the Dutch Republic and England, and its positi...
Spanish InquisitionSpanish Jews pleading before King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, while grand inquisitor Tomás de Torquemada argues for their expulsion from Spain, in a painting by Solomon A. Hart. The kingdoms ofAragon,Castile, and Portugal spent the next century consolidating their holdings, until...
Spanish InquisitionSpanish Jews pleading before King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, while grand inquisitor Tomás de Torquemada argues for their expulsion from Spain, in a painting by Solomon A. Hart. The kingdoms ofAragon,Castile, and Portugal spent the next century consolidating their holdings, until...
Spanish InquisitionSpanish Jews pleading before King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, while grand inquisitor Tomás de Torquemada argues for their expulsion from Spain, in a painting by Solomon A. Hart.(more) The kingdoms of Aragon, Castile, and Portugal spent the next century consolidating their holdin...
Spanish InquisitionSpanish Jews pleading before King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, while grand inquisitor Tomás de Torquemada argues for their expulsion from Spain, in a painting by Solomon A. Hart. The kingdoms ofAragon,Castile, and Portugal spent the next century consolidating their holdings, until...