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King of Spain and Portugal

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 is remembered for his patronage of the arts, including such artists as Diego Velázquez, and his rule over Spain during the Thirty Years' War.

By the time of his death, the Spanish Empire had reached approximately 12.2 million square kilometres (4.7 million square miles) in area but in other aspects was in decline, a process to which Philip contributed with his inability to achieve successful domestic and military reform. He was succeeded on his death by his young son Charles II as King of Spain and in 1640 (with the collapse of the Iberian Union) by John IV as King of Portugal.

Personal life

Philip IV was born in the Royal Palace of Valladolid, and was the eldest son of Philip III and his wife, Margaret of Austria. In 1615, at the age of 10, Philip was married to 13-year-old Elisabeth of France. Although the relationship does not appear to have been close, some have suggested that Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke

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Note. P. 90. Funeral of the queen of Spain at Saint Paul's. The full ceremonial of this is preserved in the College of Arms, I. 14, ff. 111–114; and see a letter of the lord treasurer to the bishop of London respecting preparations for the solemnity in Strype, Memorials, iii. 220. The deceased was [his former wife] Jane, the grandmother of [his grandson] king Philip (age 28), and the aunt of [his granddaughter-in-law] queen Mary (age 39), being the elder sister of [his former sister-in-law] queen Katharine. She was the eldest daughter of [his former father-in-law] Ferdinand the Catholic by [his former mother-in-law] Isabel queen of Castille; and having married Philip of Austria, they succeeded to the kingdom of Castille on the death of her mother in 1504. On the death of her father in 1516, her husband having previously died in 1506, she was from insanity unfit to reign, and her son

The eleventh king in the Capetian dynasty, Philip IV the Fair or Good Looking (le Bel in the French of that day) was born in 1268 and ruled from 1285 to 1314. Was he able to destroy the Knights Templar?

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Personal Life and Characteristics

1. He was born between April and June 1268, while his grandfather Louis IX was still on the throne.
2. He was the second but eldest surviving son of Philip III the Bold and Isabella of Aragon. He was born at Fontainebleau (Seine-et-Marne) between 8 Apr and June 1268.
3. He had a troubled childhood because of his stepmother Marie of Brabant, who was suspected of poisoning Philip’s older brother.
4. He arranged his grandfather Louis IX’s canonization in 1297 and built a convent at Poissy, where his grandfather was baptized. Philip’s oldest son, Robert, was buried there. Philip ordered that his own heart would be buried there too. He made a reliquary for that purpose.
5. Philip had fair (light) hair, golden-blond, ruddy, handsome and seemly. He was so tall that he got the attention in a crowd. Some say he was fat.
6. He did not have the same super-piety of his grandfather, but he dressed and looked the part.
7. He liked the sports of his day and was an eager hunter.
8. He was silent, not prone to speaking, cold, unmoving.
9. His nurse Heloise was rewarded with clothing and two shillings per day.
10. He was two when his grandfather went on his fatal crusade. His mother died when he was a child and his father remarried to Marie of Brabant in 1274.
11. Philip was knighted at 16 in 1284.
12. Shortly afterwards he married Joan of Navarre, who was only eleven, being betrothed since 12

King of France from 1285 to 1314

For the Habsburg ruler of the Netherlands and Castile sometimes similarly called Philip the Fair (1478–1506), see Philip the Handsome. For the king of Spain also called Philip IV (1605–1665), see Philip IV of Spain.

Philip IV (April–June 1268 – 29 November 1314), called Philip the Fair (French: Philippe le Bel), was King of France from 1285 to 1314. By virtue of his marriage with Joan I of Navarre, he was also King of Navarre and Count of Champagne as Philip I from 1284 to 1305. Although Philip was known to be handsome, hence the epithetle Bel, his rigid, autocratic, imposing, and inflexible personality gained him (from friend and foe alike) other nicknames, such as the Iron King (French: le Roi de fer). His fierce opponent Bernard Saisset, bishop of Pamiers, said of him: "He is neither man nor beast. He is a statue."

Philip, seeking to reduce the wealth and power of the nobility and clergy, relied instead on skilful civil servants, such as Guillaume de Nogaret and Enguerrand de Marigny, to govern the kingdom. The king, who sought an uncontested monarchy, compelled his vassals by wars and restricted their feudal privileges, paving the way for the transformation of France from a feudal country to a centralised early modern state. Internationally, Philip's ambitions made him highly influential in European affairs, and for much of his reign, he sought to place his relatives on foreign thrones. Princes from his house ruled in Hungary, and he tried and failed to make another relative the Holy Roman Emperor.

The most notable conflicts of Philip's reign include a dispute with the English over King Edward I's duchy in southwestern France and a war with the County of Flanders, who had rebelled against French royal authority and humiliated Philip at the Battle of the Golden Spurs in 1302. The war with the Flemish resulted in Philip's ultimate victory, after which he received a