KING PHILIP II OF SPAIN FROM the HAPSBURG FAMILY

KING PHILIP II OF SPAIN 
FROM  HAPSBURG FAMILY

House of Habsburg

Ferdinand Duke of Viseu 1433–1470

Isabella I Queen of Castile 1451-–1504 r.1474–1504

Ferdinand II of Aragon King of Castile 1452-1516 r.1475-1504

Maximilian I Holy Roman Emperor 1459–1519 r.1486–1519

John II King of Portugal 1455–1495 r.1481–1495

Eleanor of Viseu 1458–1525

John Prince of Asturias 1478–1497

Margaret Duchess of Savoy 1480–1530

Joanna Queen of Castile 1479–1555 r.1504–1555

Philip I King of Castile 1478–1506 r.1506

Henry VIII King of England 1491-1547 r.1509–1547

Catherine of Aragon 1485–1536

Arthur Prince of Wales 1486–1502

   The hapsburg monarchy 

Maximilian II

    THE CHILDREN OF MAXIMILLIAN II THE EMPEROR OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE  WERE PHILIP I KING OF CASTILLE, HENRY VIII , KING OF ENGLAND , CATHERINE OF ARAGON AND ARTHUR, PRINCE OF WALES

AND ANNA OF AUSTRIA

    PHILIP I KING OF CASTILLE  HAD A SON  CHARLES V KING OF SPAIN 

       CHARLES V  MARRIED ISABELLA OF PORTUGAL

          AND THEIR SON WAS PHILIP II     

    

         

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Maximilian II was the first born son of Ferdinand I, Archduke of Austria

and Anne of Bohemia and Hungary, the  daughter of King Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary and his third wife Anne of Foix-Candale. He and was born at Vienna on 31 July 1527 and was named in honour of his paternal great-grandfather, the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, whose patrimony his father Ferdinand eventually inherited.         

    FERDINAND I, archduke of Austria 

 

  King Vlasislaus of Bohemia 

  Maximilian was brought up at his father’s court at Innsbruck, he was provided with an excellent education, one of his tutors was the humanist scholar Wolgang Severus who much to the annoyance of his father, introduced him to the basics of the Lutheran religion. Maximilian grew to be a charismatic, open minded and outgoing individual who was gifted in linguistics,  as well as his native German he spoke fluently in a further six languages, French, Spanish, Italian, Czech,  Dutch and Magyar. He experienced warfare at the age of seventeen, when he took part in the Schmalkaldic War against his uncle Charles V’s nemesis, King Francis I of France

   n  September 1548, Maximilian was married at Valladolid in Spain to his first cousin Maria of Spain, daughter of Charles V, then Holy Roman Emperor and Isabella of Portugal. The bride was then twenty and the groom twenty one. The marriage was negotiated to strengthen ties between the Spanish and Austrian branches of the House of Habsburg, but in reality failed in this aim as Maximilian’s relationship with his uncle and father-in-law Charles deteriorated over the issue of his succession to the Austrian Habsburg domains, he was at first  placed behind Charles’ son Philip which Ferdinand promptly raised objections to, as he himself had  already been designated as the next Holy Roman Emperor. 

    (i) Anna of Austria (1 November 1549 – 26 October 1580) Married her uncle Philip II of Spain, and became the mother of Philip III of Spain    

            

 princess Ann of kingdom of Bohemia 

dauhhter of King Vlasislaus of Bohemia    

 

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