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2 days ago · Philip II’s very consciousness of his divinely imposed obligations, compounded by his almost pathological suspiciousness of the intentions and ambitions of other men, had led him to deprecate independent initiative by his ministers.
2 days ago · Philip II (21 May 1527 – 13 September 1598), also known as Philip the Prudent (Spanish: Felipe el Prudente), was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from 1580, and King of Naples and Sicily from 1554 until his death in 1598.
2 days ago · Only in the reign of his son Philip II of Spain from 1556 did "King of Spain" become the usual way to refer to the monarch, in Spain and the rest of Europe. Philip's reign marked the peak of the Spanish Golden Age (1492–1659), a period of great colonial expansion and trade.
2 days ago · t. e. Philip III ( Spanish: Felipe III; 14 April 1578 – 31 March 1621) was King of Spain. As Philip II, he was also King of Portugal, Naples, Sicily and Sardinia and Duke of Milan from 1598 until his death in 1621. A member of the House of Habsburg, Philip III was born in Madrid to King Philip II of Spain and his fourth wife, his niece Anna ...
5 days ago · 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 ...
3 days ago · Before and after retirement, Philip was known as the “Ace Hardware Man” in Friday Harbor, WA where he resided for several years. The familiar sight of the Cessna 206 departing or landing on the airstrips of the San Juan Islands always meant that a special order had arrived for a customer, perhaps, a new prop for a skipper in distress, or many times, a critical flight with a passenger bound for a mainland hospital.
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3 days ago · Philip II was a king of Ancient Macedon and a conqueror of Ancient Greece. The creator of a highly successful army, he is perhaps most well-known as being the father of Alexander the Great. Philip was both in 383 B.C. or 382 B.C., the youngest of three sons of King Amyntas III of Macedon and a woman named Eurydice.
