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He was Philip II father
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She was Philip II mother
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She was Philip's second wife, she died at 42, four years after her wedding with Philip
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The son of Emperor Charles V and Isabella of Portugal, Philip inherited his father's Spanish Empire in 1556 and succeeded to the Portuguese throne in 1580 following a dynastic crisis. Under Philip II, Spain reached the height of her influence and power, sometimes called the Spanish Golden Age, and ruled territories in every continent then known to Europeans. This policy was partly the cause of the declaration of independence that created the Dutch Republic in 1581.
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She was Philip's first wife. She died at 17, only two years after her wedding with Philip
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She was Philip II mother
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Maria Manuela was Philip's first wife, he married her on 1543 and she died on 1545, at 17 years old. She was also his double first cousin.
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She was Philip's third wife, and she died at 23, nine years after her wedding with Philip
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He is Philip II son
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She was Philip's last wife, and she died ten years after her wedding with Philip, at just 30
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With American mines providing Spain with an estimated 339,000 pounds of gold and 16,000 tons of silver bullion, Spain was able to support an army of about 50,000 soldiers. With this strong and large standing army, Spain had an advantage that their enemies didn't have.
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Philip II marries his second wife, she was born on February 18, 1516 and died on 17 November 1558, four years after her marrting Philip.
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Philip's father arranged his marriage to 37-year-old Queen Mary I of England, Charles' maternal first cousin. His father ceded the crown of Naples, as well as his claim to the Kingdom of Jerusalem, to him. Their marriage at Winchester Cathedral on 25 July 1554 took place just two days after their first meeting. Lord Chancellor Gardiner and the House of Commons petitioned Mary to consider marrying an Englishman, preferring Edward Courtenay.
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That year at the Battle of Nancy during the Burgundian Wars, the last duke, Charles the Bold, was killed in battle. Although the county, along with the Duchy, was seized by King Louis XI of France, in 1492 his son Charles VIII ceded it to Philip of Austria, the grandson and heir of Charles the Bold. When Philip's son, Emperor Charles V, inherited the Spanish throne in 1516, the Franche-Comté, along with the rest of the Burgundian lands, passed to the Spanish.
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When Charles V retired his position, he gave his son, Philip II, control of all the Spainish Dominions in Italy, the American colonies, Spain, and the Spanish Netherlands. Both father and son were very similar and successful leaders.
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Philip the Prudent or Philip II of the House of Habsburg, was unarguably the most important ruler in Spanish history. It was under his reign that Spain reached the height of its influence and power, and also of its artistic, literary, and musical excellence.
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The Battle of Saint-Quentin of 1557, was a decisive engagement of the Italian War of 1551–1559 between the Kingdom of France and the Habsburg empire, at Saint-Quentin in Picardy. A Habsburg Spanish force under Duke Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy defeated a French army under the command of Duke Louis Gonzaga and Duke Anne de Montmorency.
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he was Philip II father
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She was Philips third wife, and she was born on 2 April 1545, and died on 3 October 1568, at 23, nine years after her weding with Philip.
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The Duchy of Milan and the Habsburg Netherlands were left in personal union to the King of Spain but continued to be part of the Holy Roman Empire. With the end of the personal union of the Holy Roman Empire and Spain , France was open to peace talks. The condition of economic and religious turmoil in which the war resumed forced the parties to make peace in 1559.
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The Tridentine Reformation or Counter-Reformation, defended at all costs in Spain by Philip II, will fight against any hint of heterodoxy within the Catholic Church. Control over the most diverse displays of popular religiosity will become tighter through existing institutions such as the Tribunal of the Inquisition.
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Philip ordered this place tu be built, and he called it "El Escorial", it was his residence, it took manny years and lots of money to build.
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The Council of Trent, 19th ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church, held in three parts from 1545 to 1563. Prompted by the Reformation, the Council of Trent was highly important for its sweeping decrees on self-reform and for its dogmatic definitions that clarified virtually every doctrine contested by the Protestants.
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She is Philip II daughter.
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There were angry protestant mobs that when through catholic churches. Philip raised taxes in the Netherlands, just so he could get rid of Protestantism. People did not agree with him so they rebelled. As a result he executed the rebellions killed over 1,5000 people in just one day
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She was Philip's last wife, she was born on 2 November 1549, and died on 26 October 1580, exactly ten years after her weding with King Philip II. She was also his niece
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The pope called all Catholic princes to work together against the Ottoman Empire. With Philip II very dedicated to his religion, he sent more then 200 Spanish and Venetian ships to battle near Lepanto, defeating a large Ottoman fleet.
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He was Philip's son, and he died at 7 years old
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He was Philip's son, and died two years after begin born
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He was Philip's son, but died at 7
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He is Philip II son, and next King
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When his uncle, King of Portugal, passed away without a heir, Philip II took control of the empire, making him a very successful ruler and him having an empire that circled the globe.
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He ascended the thrones in 1621 and reigned in Portugal until 1640. Philip is remembered for his patronage of the arts, including such artists as Diego Velázquez, and his rule over Spain during the Thirty Years' War.
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He launched the Armada to punish Protestant England and Queen Elizabeth I because they supported Dutch Protestants and tried to take control of the Netherlands.
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She was Philip II daughter
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Philip II had to accept (Peace of Vervins) his succession as Henry IV of France
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Philip II died in his house, El Escorial. He had a delicate health during his whole life, nevertheless, the las ten years he was extremily sick, and lost movement on his right hand, begin incapable of signing documents, he died with a cricifix on his hand at 5a.m.