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Philip II of Spain
saidundated
God, who has given me so many Kingdoms to govern, has not given me a son fit to govern them.
— David Maland, Europe in the seventeenth century (1966), p. 207.
Philip II of Spain
King of Spain, Portugal, Naples and Sicily; King consort of England, lived 1527-1598
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He held more thrones than almost anyone in European history — Spain, Portugal, England briefly through marriage, Naples, Sicily, Milan, the Netherlands — and steered the largest empire on earth through its peak and near-bankruptcy at once. Philip II spent four decades waging simultaneous wars for Catholic supremacy, launched the doomed Armada against Elizabe
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Son of Emperor Charles V, Philip inherited the Spanish Empire in 1556 and added Portugal in 1580 after a succession crisis, fusing them into the Iberian Union. Under his rule Spain completed the conquest of the Inca Empire and the Philippines — the islands named for him — and finished El Escorial in 1584. Deeply devout, he saw himself as Catholicism's defender and poured resources into wars on multiple fronts: victories at Oran, Malta, Lepanto against the Ottomans, funding for the Catholic League against French Huguenots, and in 1588 the great Armada sent to topple Elizabeth and restore Englis…
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Philip II of Spain
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I would rather lose all my lands and a hundred lives than be king over heretics.
— David A. Pharies, A brief history of the Spanish language (2007), p. 147.
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