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Charles II of Spain [a] (6 November 1661 – 1 November 1700) 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 II was the king of Spain from 1665 to 1700 and the last monarch of the Spanish Habsburg dynasty. Charles’s reign opened with a 10-year regency under the queen mother, during which the government was preoccupied with combatting the ambitions of the French king Louis XIV in the Low Countries.
Jun 9, 2024 · King Charles II of Spain was the last Habsburg ruler of the country, and perhaps thankfully so. Per his contemporaries, he was “so ugly as to cause fear” — though it was through no fault of his own.
Charles II was the last Spanish ruler from the House of Habsburg. He is regarded as a grotesque reflection of Spain’s decline and a prototypical product of dynastic inbreeding.
3 days ago · Charles II. Professor of Islamic History, Complutensian University of Madrid. Author of Aragón Musulmán. Professor of Classics, University of Edinburgh. Author of Hispaniae: Spain and the Development of Roman Imperialism, 218–82 B.C. and others.
Charles II of Spain 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 II of Spain ( b. November 1661; d. 1 November 1700), king of Spain, Naples, and Sicily (1665–1700). Chronically ill throughout his life, Charles II ruled early on through his mother, as regent, and a five-member government junta, which was an aristocratic faction headed by his illegitimate brother, Don John of Austria.
May 18, 2018 · CHARLES II (SPAIN) (1661 – 1700), king of Spain, Naples, and Sicily (1665 – 1700), son of Philip IV, and the last Habsburg ruler of Spain. From the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella in the fifteenth century through that of Philip IV in the mid-seventeenth century, Spain was the major power in western Europe, possessing a rich colonial empire ...
Apr 14, 2009 · On November 1st, 1700, an entire dynasty of kings came to a crashing end with the death of Charles II of Spain. Charles had neither a pleasant life nor a successful reign.
Charles II. from 1665 king of Spain (at first until 1675 under the tutelary regency of his mother Maria Anna) Born in Madrid on 6 November 1661 Died in Madrid on 1 November 1700. He succeeded his father Philip IV at the age of four.
