# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/philip-iii-of-spain
# Generated: 2026-08-31T20:49:19.064Z

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name: "Philip III of Spain"
slug: "philip-iii-of-spain"
description: "He inherited the most powerful empire on earth and immediately handed the controls to someone else. Philip III of Spain let his chief minister, the Duke of Lerma, run the show while historians watched the empire's long slide begin."
tagline: "King of Castilla and León and King of Aragon and Portugal (1578-1621)"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1578-04-14"
deathDate: "1621-03-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Madrid on 14 April 1578 to Philip II and Anna of Austria — uncle and niece, as well as cousins — he became King of Spain, Portugal, Naples, and Sicily in 1598. One year later he married another Habsburg cousin, Margaret of Austria. He delegated nearly all power to the Duke of Lerma, whose influence defined the reign, while military success in the territories depended on unpredictable commanders like Ambrogio Spinola. His rule saw a temporary peace with the Dutch from 1609 to 1621 and Spain's entry into the Thirty Years' War in 1618, but economic troubles took root early. Known in Spain as "Philip the Pious," he earned harsher verdicts abroad: historians called him insignificant, miserable, a pallid creature whose only virtue was the absence of vice. He died on 31 March 1621, leaving behind a pivotal reign that marked the empire's turn from zenith toward gradual decline.