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Philip IV (Spanish: Felipe Domingo Victor de la Cruz de Austria y Austria, Portuguese: Filipe; 8 April 1605 – 17 September 1665), also called the Planet King (Spanish: Rey Planeta), was King of Spain from 1621 to his death and (as Philip III) King of Portugal from 1621 to 1640.
Philip IV (born April 8, 1605, Valladolid, Spain—died Sept. 17, 1665, Madrid) was the king of Spain (1621–65) and of Portugal (1621–40), during the decline of Spain as a great world power.
Philip II of Spain assumed the Portuguese throne and was crowned Philip I of Portugal on 17 July 1580 (recognized as king by the Portuguese Cortes of Tomar) and a near sixty-year personal union under the rule of the Philippine Dynasty began.
Philip IV of Spain ( b. 8 April 1605; d. 17 September 1665), king of Spain, Naples, and Sicily (1621–1665) and, as Philip III, Portugal (1621–1640). Philip inherited from his father (Philip III) a state in decline.
Jun 25, 2024 · Spain - Philip IV, Reconquista, Golden Age: In 1620, following the defeat of Frederick V (the elector palatine, or prince, from the Rhineland who had accepted the crown of Bohemia when it was offered to him in 1618) and the Bohemians, Spanish troops from the Netherlands entered the “Winter King’s” hereditary dominions of the Rhenish ...
Philip IV, also called the Planet King, was King of Spain from 1621 to his death and King of Portugal from 1621 to 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.
In the mid-seventeenth century Spain was at the apogee of artistic and cultural achievement under the patronage of her monarch, Philip IV - but, as R.A. Stradling shows here, she was fighting for survival as a great imperial power.
For it is the latter that he reckons to be the pinnacle of royal talents, and the true honour of a perfect king.¹. Philip IV of Spain was a ruler upon whom unachievable expectations had been placed, and whose failure to live... Spain’s Seventeenth-Century Crisis Seen from the Perspective of the New World.
May 23, 2018 · Philip IV came to power as war between Spain and the rebellious Dutch recommenced after the expiration of a truce.
Philip IV ruled for forty-four years, but his reign was characterized by inconsistency and contradictions. Philip’s personality is often regarded as reflecting the decline of Spain as a Great Power. Under his rule the Spanish court is supposed to have been a hotbed of pleasure-seeking, rampant favouritism and pervasive corruption.
