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Hace 1 día · Frederick's son Charles Louis regained the Lower Palatinate and became the eighth Imperial elector, although Bavaria kept the Upper Palatinate and its electoral vote. Externally, Spain acknowledged the independence of the Dutch Republic, while the Emperor confirmed that of the Old Swiss Confederacy , effectively an autonomous part of the Empire ...
Hace 3 días · Signature. Charles II of Spain [a] (6 November 1661 – 1 November 1700) was King of Spain from 1665 to 1700. The last monarch from the House of Habsburg, which had ruled Spain since 1516, neither of his marriages produced children, and he died without a direct heir. He is now best remembered for his physical disabilities, and the War of the ...
Hace 4 días · Redworth's study offers the fullest account of the Spanish Match – the ill-fated effort to marry the future Charles I to the Infanta Maria of Spain – since Gardiner. It draws upon Spanish sources unavailable to that great Victorian scholar, while advancing a bold thesis certain to provoke controversy.
Hace 5 días · With Leopold I unwilling to fight on two fronts, a strong neutralist party in the Dutch Republic tying William's hands and the Elector of Brandenburg stubbornly holding to his alliance with Louis, no possible outcome could occur but complete French victory.
Hace 5 días · In 1615 the king made his first visit to Cambridge, Prince Charles and the Elector Palatine having come two years before. The royal visit was as great an occasion as the famous visit of Elizabeth in 1564.
Hace 5 días · The writer's grandfather, James III., wrote to the king of Portugal, but could get no redress; and Charles duke of Burgundy, within whose rule the ship was taken, also wrote, but without effect. James III. thereupon granted letters of reprisal, but would never permit them to be executed.
Hace 5 días · For the first time, a ruling monarch was the defendant in formal legal proceedings in a High Court of Justice, set up by the act of a Parliament which felt able to profess to be the supreme power in the land. (For text of this act see Rushworth, Historical Collections v 8, 1379)
