1661, Charles was the only surviving son of Philip IV of Spain and Mariana of Austria, who were uncle and niece. While European nobility commonly married...

September 1715), also known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (le Roi Soleil), was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His...

French Comoros (1866–1968) French Equatorial Africa (1910–1958) Isle de France (1715–1810) Seychelles (1756–1810) The Scattered Islands Reunion island (1710–present)...

Balthasar Charles, died two years later. Lacking an heir, Philip married Mariana of Austria in 1649, and Margaret Theresa (1651–1673) was their first child, and...

become the Kingdom of Spain (de facto), up to the promulgation of the Nueva Planta decrees by Philip V in 1715 (unification de jure). Descendants of Ferdinand...

intended, since it was agreed shortly after Philip's second wife, Mariana of Austria, gave birth to a second son, both of whom died young. Philip died...

territories were largely ceded to Austria, and France was nearly bankrupted by the cost of the struggle. Louis died on 1 September 1715 ending his seventy-two-year...

to the undesired association of "Mariae" with the Spanish Jesuit Juan de Mariana. Numerous recipes ascribed to Henrietta Maria are reproduced in Kenelm...

Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp (b. 1641) January 11 – Nizel Rivers, Member of Parliament of England (b. 1614) January 16 – Hans Adam Weissenkircher, Austrian painter (b. 1646)...

daughter of King John III of Portugal and his wife Catherine of Austria Infanta Mariana Victoria of Portugal (1788, also died of Smallpox), wife of Infante...