39 Facts About Habsburg Spain

Habsburg Spain is a contemporary historiographical term referring to the huge extent of territories ruled between the 16th and 18th centuries by kings from the Spanish branch of the House of Habsburg .

Habsburg Spain was a composite monarchy and a personal union.

The Habsburg period is formative of the notion of "Spain" in the sense that was institutionalized in the 18th century.

Habsburg Spain was now in personal union under Ferdinand II of Aragon.

Habsburg Spain attempted to enlarge Spain's sphere of influence in Italy, strengthening it against France.

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Habsburg Spain first tried the path of negotiation at the Council of Trent in 1545, but the Protestant leadership, feeling betrayed by the stance taken by the Catholics at the council, went to war, led by the Saxon elector Maurice.

Habsburg Spain was not yet at peace, as the aggressive Henry II of France came to the throne in 1547 and renewed the conflict with Habsburg Spain.

In 1557, Habsburg Spain met with bankruptcy and was forced to partially repudiate its debt through debt consolidation and conversion.

Only in response to raids on the eastern coast of Habsburg Spain did Charles personally lead attacks against holdings in North Africa .

Habsburg Spain had invested itself in the religious warfare in France after Henry II's death.

Habsburg Spain's successor, Henry IV of France, the first Bourbon king of France, was a man of great ability, winning key victories against the Catholic League at Arques and Ivry .

In 1595, King Henry IV of France declared war on Habsburg Spain, further reducing Habsburg Spain's ability to launch offensive warfare on the United Provinces.

However, by regaining control of the sea, Habsburg Spain was able to greatly increase the supply of gold and silver from America, which allowed it to increase military pressure on England and France.

Habsburg Spain built on reforms attempted under earlier viceroys, but he is often credited with a major transformation in crown rule in Peru.

Habsburg Spain established administrative districts of corregimiento, and resettled native Andeans in reducciones to better rule them.

Transpacific explorations had resulted in Habsburg Spain claiming the Philippines and the establishment of Spanish settlements and trade with Mexico.

Habsburg Spain dealt with English encroachment on Habsburg Spain's maritime control in the Indies, particularly by Sir Francis Drake and his cousin John Hawkins.

Habsburg Spain had ceded its rights to the "Spice Islands" to Portugal in the Treaty of Saragossa in 1529, but the appellation was vague as was their exact delineation.

On embarking on the expedition, Habsburg Spain lacked maps or information to guide the king's decision to authorize the expedition.

At one point, the royal officials in Manila complained that most of the soldiers who were being sent from New Habsburg Spain were black, mulatto or Native American, with almost no Spaniards among the contingents.

The former had traveled to Manila to offer Brunei as a tributary of Habsburg Spain for help to recover the throne usurped by his brother, Saiful Rijal.

Habsburg Spain needed someone to do the work of governing, and he settled on the Duke of Lerma.

Peace with England and France implied that Habsburg Spain could focus her energies on restoring her rule to the Dutch provinces.

Habsburg Spain recovered during the truce, ordering her finances and doing much to restore her prestige and stability in the run-up to the last truly great war in which she would participate as the leading power.

Up until 1630, Habsburg Spain was at peace and continued its dominant position in Europe.

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Olivares, who had backed certain tax measures in Habsburg Spain pending the completion of the war, was further blamed for a fruitless war in Italy, the War of the Mantuan Succession.

Habsburg Spain agreed to the Peace of the Pyrenees in 1659 that ceded to France Artois, Roussillon, and portions of Lorraine.

Philip IV, who had seen over the course of his life the declining influence of Habsburg Spain's empire, sank slowly into depression after he had to dismiss his favorite courtier, Olivares, in 1643.

In 1559, three years after Philip came to power, students in Habsburg Spain were forbidden to travel abroad, the leaders of the Inquisition were placed in charge of censorship, and books could no longer be imported.

Philip vigorously tried to excise Protestantism from Habsburg Spain, holding innumerable campaigns to eliminate Lutheran and Calvinist literature from the country, hoping to avoid the chaos taking place in France.

Habsburg Spain was willing to do whatever it took to fight the heretics and preserve Spanish hegemony, even intervening in papal elections to ensure the choosing of a pro-Spanish pope.

Church in Habsburg Spain had been purged of many of its administrative excesses in the 15th century by Cardinal Ximenes, and the Inquisition served to expurgate many of the more radical reformers who sought to change church theology as the Protestant reformers wanted.

Habsburg Spain bred two unique threads of counter-reformationary thought in the persons of Saint Theresa of Avila and the Basque Ignatius Loyola.

Habsburg Spain's experienced a mystical ecstasy that became profoundly influential on Spanish culture and art.

Moriscos of southern Habsburg Spain had been forcibly converted to Christianity in 1502, but under the rule of Charles I they had been able to obtain a degree of tolerance from their Christian rulers.

Habsburg Spain responded with no small amount of privateering, using the recaptured city of Dunkirk as a base for its Dunkirk Raiders to molest Dutch, English and French trade.

Habsburg Spain had to deal with Ottoman backed Barbary piracy in the Mediterranean - a vastly greater menace than Caribbean piracy, as well as Oriental and Dutch piracy in the waters around the Philippines.

The Habsburg kings regarded their colonies as feudal associations rather than integral parts of Spain.

Habsburg Spain'sep-farming was practiced extensively in Castile, and grew rapidly with rising wool prices with the backing of the king.