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1 hour ago · Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria was a member of the European House of Habsburg. She called herself Mariana after her October 1649 marriage to her biological uncle, widower King Felipe IV of Spain, III of Portugal. She was 14 years old and he was 30 years her senior. The Habsburgs were renowned for marrying members to each other in consanguine ...
1 day ago · Charles II of Spain succeeded his father Philip IV at the age of four in 1665. Subject to extended periods of ill-health for much of his life, the issue of his successor was a matter of diplomatic debate for decades.
18 hours ago · Sent to Madrid, the painting went to Philip IV and in 1666 it was at the Real Alcázar. It stayed in the Royal Collection, and was at the Casa de Campo in 1789. Later on, it belonged to Manuel Godoy, prime minister of Charles IV, and it passed to the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in the early nineteenth century, with part of ...
18 hours ago · Signature. Philip II [note 1] (21 May 1527 – 13 September 1598), also known as Philip the Prudent ( Spanish: Felipe el Prudente ), was King of Spain [note 2] from 1556, King of Portugal from 1580, and King of Naples and Sicily from 1554 until his death in 1598. He was also jure uxoris King of England and Ireland from his marriage to Queen ...
18 hours ago · The depiction of a suffering Jesus Christ in a crown of thorns was painted between 1605 and 1609, shortly before Caravaggio's death, and is believed to have once belonged to King Philip IV of Spain.
2 days ago · Philip III was succeeded in 1621 by his son Philip IV of Spain (reigned 1621–65). Much of the policy was conducted by the Count-Duke of Olivares , the inept prime minister from 1621 to 1643. He over-exerted Spain in foreign affairs and unsuccessfully attempted domestic reform.
3 days ago · Philip II had ruled Spain for 42 years - leading the fight against heresy abroad, and defending the principles of the Spanish monarchy at home - and it was a truism of Spanish courtly politics in the later 1590s that he had been a great, perhaps the greatest Spanish king.
