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Spain - Philip III, Reconquista, Golden Age: It was the tragedy of Spain that its ruling classes failed to respond to the social and political problems of the age as creatively as its writers and artists. For this failure there are at least some good reasons. In the first place, the system of royal government, as it was understood at the time, depended ultimately on the king’s ability to ...
From 1612 to 1617, Philip III of Spain pressed his claims to the Bohemian and Hun-garian thrones. In doing so, he prevented the election of Archduke Ferdinand to these thrones. The Austrian Habsburgs warned Philip that to delay Ferdinand's elec-tion might cause the Bohemians to choose a non-Habsburg king. Despite these
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Reconquista. Ferdinand III (born 1201?—died May 30, 1252, Sevilla; canonized February 4, 1671; feast day May 30) was the king of Castile from 1217 to 1252 and of Leon from 1230 to 1252 and conqueror of the Muslim cities of Córdoba (1236), Jaén (1246), and Sevilla (1248). During his campaigns, Murcia submitted to his son Alfonso (later ...
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Mar 29, 2024 · Ferdinand III (born July 13, 1608, Graz, Inner Austria—died April 2, 1657, Vienna) was the Holy Roman emperor who headed the so-called peace party at the Habsburg imperial court during the Thirty Years’ War and ended that war in 1648 with the Peace of Westphalia.
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Signature. Ferdinand III (Ferdinand Ernest; 13 July 1608 – 2 April 1657) was Archduke of Austria from 1621, King of Hungary from 1625, King of Croatia and of Bohemia from 1627 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1637 to his death. Ferdinand ascended the throne at the beginning of the last decade of the Thirty Years' War and introduced lenient ...
- 18 November 1637 – 2 April 1657
- Maria Anna of Bavaria
The peace negotiations involved a total of 109 delegations representing European powers, including Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III, Philip IV of Spain, the Kingdom of France, the Swedish Empire, the Dutch Republic, the princes of the Holy Roman Empire, and sovereigns of the free imperial cities.
Aug 16, 2016 · There were a number of "cousins" to the royal family, one of which was Philip II of Spain. It was in this "role" that he took over Portugal, not on behalf of Spain, but under a "personal union," whereby he was king of Spain and Portugal. In Ferdinand of Aragon's time, on the other hand, the Portuguese royal family was intact.
