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1 day ago · Charles II of Spain[a] (6 November 1661 – 1 November 1700), also known as El Hechizado, or the Bewitched, 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. Charles became king at the age of four, but ...
2 days ago · Philip IV (Spanish: Felipe Domingo Victor de la Cruz de Austria y Austria, [1] Portuguese: Filipe; 8 April 1605 – 17 September 1665), also called the Planet King (Spanish: Rey Planeta), was King of Spain from 1621 to his death and (as Philip III) King of Portugal from 1621 to 1640.
5 days ago · He was gifted with a characteristic Habsburg feature: a massive jaw. This infamous ‘Habsburg chin’, the result of generations of inbreeding, prevented Charles from eating properly: envoys to the courts in Mechelen and Brussels remarked on his drooling, open mouth.
2 days ago · The senior Franconian branch of the House of Hohenzollern was founded by Conrad I, Burgrave of Nuremberg (1186–1261). The family supported the Hohenstaufen and Habsburg rulers of the Holy Roman Empire during the 12th to 15th centuries, being rewarded with several territorial grants.
3 days ago · Spain - Reconquista, Inquisition, Monarchy: Ferdinand died on January 23, 1516, and the crowns of the Spanish kingdoms devolved to his grandson, Charles I (1516–56), the ruler of the Netherlands and heir to the Habsburg dominions in Austria and southern Germany.
5 days ago · Hungary - Habsburg, Revolution, Austro-Hungarian: The emperor, not Hungary, was the victor, for the retreating Turks and the advancing armies of the so-called liberators ravaged the country.
5 days ago · The Habsburg kingdom of Hungary and Frederick III’s own duchy of Styria lay in the path of the invaders. In 1453 the fall of Constantinople extinguished the Eastern Empire and aroused fears in Germany that the Western (i.e., Holy Roman) Empire would meet the same fate.
