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Article: Philip III (Spain) (1578–1621; Ruled 1598–1621)
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PHILIP III (SPAIN) (1578
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1621; ruled 1598
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1621)
PHILIP III (SPAIN)
(1578
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1621; ruled 1598
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1621), king of Spain; ruled Portugal as Philip II. Philip III had the misfortune to be the son of Philip II, and was saddled with the perhaps undeserved reputation of being an unprepared simpleton. He was the son of Philip II's fourth and last wife, Anna of Austria (1549
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1580), and married a second cousin, Margaret of Austria (1584
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1611), who bore him eight children by the time she died in childbirth at the age of twenty-six. If his abilities have never been celebrated, his devotion and upright behavior always have. The apt assessment by the count-duke of ...