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One of the main reasons that prompted Louis XIV to sue for peace and to abandon his claims on Lorraine and the Palatinate was the rapid physical decline of the inglorious Spanish monarch, Charles II, of whose enormous possessions the French king hoped by diplomacy and intrigue to secure valuable portions.Spain was still a great power. Under its crown were gathered not only the ancient kingdoms of Castile, Aragon, and Navarre in the Spanish peninsula, but the greater part of the Belgian Netherlands, and in Italy the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, the duchy of Milan, and the control of Tuscany, as well as the huge colonial empire in America and the Philippines. At the time when kings were absolute rulers and reckoned their territories as personal possessions, much depended upon the royal succession.Now it happened that the Spanish Habsburgs were dying out in the male line. Charles II was himself without children or brothers. Of his sisters, the elder was the wife of Louis XIV and the younger was married to the Emperor Leopold, the heir of the Austrian Habsburgs. Louis XIV had renounced by the peace of the Pyrenees (1659) all claims to the Spanish throne on condition that a large dowry be paid him, but the impoverished state of the Spanish exchequer had prevented the payment of the dowry. Louis, therefore, might lay claim to the whole inheritance of Charles II and entertain the hope of seeing the Bourbons supplant the Habsburgs in some of the fairest lands of Christendom. In opposition to the French contention, the emperor was properly moved by family pride to put forth the claim of his wife and that of himself as the nearest male relative of the Spanish king. If the contention of Leopold were sustained, a single Habsburg ruler might once more unite an empire as vast as that which the Emperor Charles V had once ruled. On the other side, if the ambition of Louis XIV were realized, a new and formidable Bourbon empire would be erected. In either case the European "balance of power" would be destroyed... History 266: World History from the Renaissance to ... Lecture 3: Fifteenth Century Europe: Social and Economic Changes. A. The Medieval Legacy to the Era of Crisis: From roughly the time of the Carolingian Renaissance in ... History of Europe - Wikipedia The history of Europe covers the peoples inhabiting the European continent from prehistory to the present. Some of the best-known civilizations of prehistoric Europe ... Historical Autographs Search Form Julian Browning specializes in the sale of autograph letters historical documents and manuscripts dating from about 1450 to 1950. All historical autographs letters ... Photographic Collection Index The Warburg Institute INTRODUCTION. The Photographic Collection of the Warburg Institute was like the Library originally the private collection of Aby Warburg. At the time of his death ... Spanish Empire - New World Encyclopedia 3 The Empire of the last Spanish Habsburgs (16431713) 4 The Bourbon Spanish Empire: Reform and Recovery (17131806) The marriage of the Ferdinand II of Aragon ... Ideadiez.com is and in to a was not you i of it the be he his but for are this that by on at they with which she or from had we will have an what been one if would who has her ... Napoleon - Wikipedia Napoleon was born on 15 August 1769 to Carlo Maria di Buonaparte and Maria Letizia Ramolino in his family's ancestral home Casa Buonaparte in Ajaccio the capital ... Full text of "NEW " - Internet Archive Search the history of over 279 billion web pages on the Internet. Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta Classical Antiquity - books ... AMMONIUS. AMMNIOU peri Homoin kai Diaphorn leksen. De adfinium vocabulorum differentia. Accedunt opuscula nondum edita Eranius Philo 'de Differentia ... Italy facts information pictures Encyclopedia.com ... italy location size and extent topography climate flora and fauna environment population migration ethnic groups languages religions transportation history ...
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