PHILIP IV

       A) BIOGRAPHY

Great or the King of the Planet.(Valladolid, April 8, 1605-Madrid, September 17, 1665), was King of Spain from March 31, 1621 until his death, and of Portugal from the same date until December 1640. 

On January 13, 1608, prince and heir. After a brief reign marked by truces and diplomatic maneuvers, the death of Felipe III in 1621 gave way to the throne.

Who are the parents of Philip IV? Philip IV is the son of Philip the III and Margarita of Austria

      - MARRIAGE AND CHILDREN

Married in 1615 with Isabel de Borbón, daughter of the King of France, with whom he had been promised at the age of six. As a result of this marriage, seven children were born, of which only two reached adulthood. One of these was Prince Baltasar Carlos (1629), who swore heir to the throne before the Castilian Cortes, before dying at the age of seventeen.  Maria Theresa of Austria and Bourbon, was Queen consort of King Louis XIV of France.

In 1644 his wife died and he remarried four years later with his niece, Archduchess Mariana of Austria, fiancée of his late son. The marriage of Felipe IV with his twelve-year-old niece produced five children, but only two reached adulthood: the Infanta Margarita (1651) and Carlos II "El Hechizado" (1661), whose death triggered the War of Succession.

Nobody knows the exact number of children he had outside of his two marriages, he was the King who had the most descendants in the history of Spain, 13 legitimate, he died without being able to give more male heirs than the Sick Carlos II.

He was the father of Carlos II of Spain, Margarita Teresa of Austria, María Teresa of Austria, Baltasar Carlos of Austria, Felipe Próspero of Austria, Juan José of Austria.

  - TERRITORIES HE INHEREDIT

King Felipe IV was the son of Felipe III and Margarita of Austria, and grandson on his father's side of Felipe II and Ana of Austria and on his mother's side of Archduke Carlos II of Styria and María Ana de Baviera. The new monarch inherited the universal hegemony of Spain, with an extensive Empire with territories in the five continents: Europe, America, Africa, Asia and Oceania. Felipe IV consolidated the tradition of delegating the political power of the monarchy to the valid one.