Domestic Policy:Philip II

DOMESTIC POLICY OF PHILP II

• The Rebelion of Alpujarras (1568  to 1571): In 1567 Pedro de Deza, president of the Royal Chancery of Granada, proclaimed the Pragmatic under order of Philip II. The edict limited the religious, linguistic and cultural freedoms of the Moorish population. This provoked a rebellion of the Moors of the Alpujarras that Juan de Austria reduced militarily.
• The Crisis of Aragón (1590 to 1591): Antonio Pérez, Aragonese, was secretary to the king until 1579. He was arrested for the murder of Juan de Escobedo, a confidant of Don Juan de Austria, and for abusing the royal trust by conspiring against the king. The relationship between Aragon and the crown was somewhat deteriorated since 1588 by the lawsuit of the foreign viceroy and the problems in the strategic county of Ribagorza.  When Antonio Pérez escaped to Zaragoza and took refuge in the protection of the Aragonese fueros, Felipe II tried to prosecute Antonio Pérez through the tribunal of the Inquisition to avoid Aragonese justice (the greater justice of Aragon was theoretically independent of the royal power). This fact provoked a revolt in Zaragoza that Philip II reduced using force, beheading Juan de Lanuza y Urrea and eliminating the privileges and privileges of Aragon in order to execute him.
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  Administrative reforms: The King's father, Charles I, had ruled like an emperor, and as such, Spain and mainly Castile had been a source of military and economic resources for distant wars, of a strategic nature, difficult to justify locally since they responded to his personal ambition (and even more, to the ambitions of the House of Austria) and that had become very expensive with the technological innovations of war. Philip II, like his predecessor, was an authoritarian king, and continued with the institutions inherited from Charles I and with the same structure of his empire and autonomy of its components, but ruled as a national king. Spain, and especially Castile, were the center of the empire, with its administration located in Madrid.