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Philip II of Spain (21 May 1527 – 13 September 1598) was, starting in 1556, king of Spain, and Burgundy, Netherlands, Naples, Sicily, and Spanish America. He was born in Valladolid and was the only son of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and his wife to live until he was an adult. He was strongly Catholic .
Philip II of Spain ( b. 21 May 1527; d. 13 September 1598), king of Spain (1556–1598), king of Naples and Sicily (1554–1598), and, as Philip I, king of Portugal (1580–1598). Philip's priorities were religion, justice, and peace, although circumstances occasionally forced him to subordinate one in pursuit of another.
Nov 18, 2022 · Philip II established the capital of Spain in Madrid which was quite surprising at the time due to Madrid’s population of less than 10,000 inhabitants. Philip II brought an end to ambitions of the French Valois in Italy and contributed to the rise of the Habsburg ascendancy in Europe.
Philip II, Spanish Felipe, (born May 21, 1527, Valladolid, Spain—died Sept. 13, 1598, El Escorial), King of Spain (1556–98) and of Portugal (as Philip I, 1580–98). The son of Emperor Charles V , Philip received from his father the duchy of Milan (1540), the kingdoms of Naples and Sicily (1554), the Netherlands (1555), and Spain and its ...
Philip II - Expansion, Religion, Diplomacy: For the first 20 years of his reign, Philip sought to preserve peace with his neighbours in western Europe. He was fighting a major naval war with the Ottoman Empire in the Mediterranean and, from 1568, he was faced with rebellion and war in the Netherlands. From the late 1570s, his policy gradually changed. The death (August 1578) without heirs of ...
Unquestionably Philip II was a loyal son of the Catholic Church. He famously told Pope Pius V in 1566 that, 'rather than suffer the least damage to religion and the service of God, I would lose all my states and a hundred lives if I had them; for I do not propose or desire to be the ruler of heretics'. Philip also attempted to improve the ...
May 2, 2018 · In 1589, Queen Elizabeth launched a failed “English Armada” against Spain. King Philip II, meanwhile, later rebuilt his fleet and dispatched two more Spanish Armadas in the 1590s, both of ...
