Philip III of Spain
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Template:Philippine House Image:PhilipIIISpain.jpg Philip III (Spanish: Felipe III) (April 14, 1578 – March 31, 1621) was the king of Spain and Portugal and Algarves (as Philip II Portuguese: Filipe II), from 1598 until his death. His chief minister was the Duke of Lerma. Philip III married Margaret, sister of Ferdinand II.
Born at Madrid, the son of Philip II of Spain and his fourth wife, Anne, daughter of the emperor Maximilian II. He inherited the beliefs of his father, but no share of his industry. The old king had sorrowfully confessed that God had not given him a son capable of governing his vast dominions, and had foreseen that Philip III would be led by his servants. This calculation was exactly fulfilled.
The new king put the direction of his government entirely into the hands of his favourite, the duke of Lerma, Francisco Goméz de Sandoval y Rojas, and when he fell under the influence of Lerma's son, Cristóbal de Sandoval, the duke of Uceda in 1618, he trusted himself and his states to the new favourite. The king's own life was passed amid court festivities, on which enormous sums of money were wasted, or in the practice of childish piety. It was said that he was so virtuous as hardly to have committed a venial sin. He cannot be justly blamed for having been born to rule a despotic monarchy, without even the capacity which would have qualified him to manage a small estate.
In 1607 nominated Alonso de la Cueva (Marqués de Bedmar) for the ambassador to the Republic of Venice.
He died at Madrid on March 31, 1621. The story told in the memoirs of the French ambassador Bassompierre, that he was killed by the heat of a brasero (a pan of hot charcoal), because the proper official to take it away was not at hand, is a humorous exaggeration of the formal etiquette of the court.
Marriage and Issue
| Name | Birth | Death | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anne of Austria | September 22, 1601 | January 20, 1666 | Married Louis XIII, King of France (1601 - 1643) in 1615. |
| Philip IV, King of Spain | April 8, 1605 | September 17, 1665 | Married (1) Elizabeth of France (1603 - 1644) in 1615. Had issue. Married (2) Mariana of Austria (1634 - 1696) in 1649. Had issue. |
| Maria Anne of Austria | August 18, 1606 | May 13, 1646 | Married Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (1608 - 1657) in 1631. Had issue. |
| Ferdinand, Prince of Spain | November 9, 1641 |
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References
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