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Article: Philip IV (Spain) (1605–1665)
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PHILIP IV (SPAIN) (1605
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1665)
PHILIP IV (SPAIN)
(1605
–
1665), king of Spain (1621
–
1665). Philip, his father Philip III (1578
–
1621), and his son Charles II (1661
–
1700) are sometimes known as the "minor Habsburgs" to differentiate them from their sixteenth-century predecessors. Studies have shown that the seventeenth-century Spanish monarchs did not deserve the pejorative term, though the reevaluation is due less to their abilities than to the events of their reigns, which have been the subject of important works of revisionist history.
Philip IV came to power as war between Spain and the rebellious Dutch recommenced after the expiration of a truce. In ...