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3 days 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.
- Philip IV of Spain
A c. 1612 portrait of Philip and his older sister, Anne....
- Philip of Anjou
Philip V (Spanish: Felipe; 19 December 1683 – 9 July 1746)...
- Mariana of Austria
Maria Anna was born on 24 December 1634 in Wiener Neustadt,...
- Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria
Joseph Ferdinand Leopold of Bavaria (28 October 1692 – 6...
- Consanguinity
The degree of kinship between two people may give rise to...
- Marie Louise of Orléans
Coat of arms of Queen Marie Louise. Marie Louise d'Orléans...
- Margaret Theresa of Spain
Margaret Theresa of Spain (Spanish: Margarita Teresa,...
- John Joseph of Austria
John Joseph of Austria or John of Austria (the Younger)...
- Maria Anna of Neuburg
Maria Anna of Neuburg [a] (28 October 1667 - 16 July 1740),...
- Maria Antonia of Austria
Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria was born on 18 January...
- Philip IV of Spain
4 days ago · Ferdinand I (10 March 1503 – 25 July 1564) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1556, King of Bohemia, Hungary, and Croatia from 1526, and Archduke of Austria from 1521 until his death in 1564. [1] [2] Before his accession as emperor, he ruled the Austrian hereditary lands of the House of Habsburg in the name of his elder brother, Charles V, Holy ...
3 days ago · Leopold's banner had been raised alongside the English and French standards. This was interpreted as arrogance by both Richard and Philip, as Leopold was a vassal of the Holy Roman Emperor (although he was the highest-ranking surviving leader of the imperial forces).
3 days ago · Holy Roman Emperor Charles V was the most powerful man in Europe in the early 16th century, running a territory that sprawled across the continent and beyond, to the New World. But the man born in Ghent in 1500 and raised in Mechelen would abdicate in Brussels at the age of 55.
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.
5 days ago · France - Louis I, Monarchy, Revolution: Only chance ensured that the empire remained united under Louis I (the Pious), the last surviving son of Charlemagne. Louis was crowned emperor in 813 by his father, who died the following year.
3 days ago · Under Alexander II the papacy succeeded in escaping the shadows of Roman aristocratic domination and imperial control and in moving onto the European stage. Against this background, King Henry IV reached his majority and began to assert his rights in both Germany and Italy.
