What was philip iv known for
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Philip IV: Spain’s late glory or a slow decline?
Philip’s personality is often regarded as reflecting the decline of Spain as a Great Power. Under his rule the Spanish court is supposed to have been a hotbed of pleasure-seeking, rampant favouritism and pervasive corruption.
However, some biographers have seen in this member of the Habsburg dynasty a person of integrity and well-meaning and intelligent monarch who was better suited to royal office than his father. According to their view, it was thanks to him that Spain was able to preserve at least the façade of a Great Power and that its decline was slowed.
As king Philip made desperate – and mostly unavailing – attempts to preserve Spain’s authority in Europe. After a long period of peace lasting twelve years and resulting from the exhaustion of the two adversaries, fighting flared up again in the Netherlands. The northern provinces, de facto independent as the States General since 1581, came under attack once again. However, the latter had made better use of the period of peace to rally their forces than the unwieldy colos
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Philip IV of France
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."[a]
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
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Philip IV of Spain
King of Spain and Portugal
| Philip IV | |||
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Portrait of Philip IV in Fraga, 1644 | |||
| Reign | 31 March 1621 – 17 September 1665 | ||
| Predecessor | Philip III | ||
| Successor | Charles II | ||
| Reign | 31 March 1621 – 1 December 1640 | ||
| Predecessor | Philip II | ||
| Successor | John IV | ||
| Born | (1605-04-08)8 April 1605 Royal Palace of Valladolid, Valladolid, Crown of Castile, Spain | ||
| Died | 17 September 1665(1665-09-17) (aged 60) Madrid, Crown of Castile, Spain | ||
| Burial | El Escorial | ||
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| House | Habsburg | ||
| Father | Philip III of Spain | ||
| Mother | Margaret of Austria | ||
| Religion | Catholicism | ||
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Philip IV (Spanish: Felipe Domingo Victor de la Cruz de Austria y Austria,[1]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 art
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