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Ferdinand VI (Spanish: Fernando; 23 September 1713 – 10 August 1759), called the Learned (el Prudente) and the Just (el Justo), was King of Spain from 9 July 1746 until his death in 1759. He was the third ruler of the Spanish Bourbon dynasty. He was the son of King Philip V and Queen Maria Luisa.
Ferdinand I of Austria (1793–1875), also Ferdinand V of Bohemia, Hungary and Croatia; Ferdinand I of Naples (1423–1494) Ferdinand II of Naples (1495–1496) Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (1751–1825), also Ferdinand IV of Naples, and Ferdinand III of Sicily; Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (1810–1856) Ferdinand VI of Spain (1713 ...
Ferdinand VII (Spanish: Fernando VII; 14 October 1784 – 29 September 1833) was King of Spain during the early 19th century. He reigned briefly in 1808 and then again from 1813 to his death in 1833. Before 1813 he was known as el Deseado (the Desired), and after, as el Rey Felón (the Criminal King).
King of Spain, Portugal, Naples, Sicily and Sardinia; Duke of Milan; son of Philip II: Philip IV, the Great, the Planet King Felipe IV, el Grande, el Rey Planeta: April 8, 1605 – September 17, 1665 (aged 60) March 31, 1621 – September 17, 1665 King of Spain, Portugal (until 1640), Naples, Sicily and Sardinia; Duke of Milan
On 1 October 1936, General Francisco Franco was proclaimed "Leader of Spain" (Spanish: Caudillo de España) in the parts of Spain controlled by the Nationalists (nacionales) after the Spanish Civil War broke out. At the end of the war, on 1 April 1939, Franco took control of the whole of Spain, ending the Second Republic.
Miller, Townsend Miller (1963) The Castles and the Crown: Spain 1451–1555. New York: Coward-McCann; Prescott, William H. (1838). History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic. Roth, Norman (1995) Conversos, Inquisition, and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain. (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press) Stuart, Nancy Rubin.
Charles succeeded to the Spanish throne in 1759 upon the death of his childless half-brother Ferdinand VI. As king of Spain, Charles III made far-reaching reforms to increase the flow of funds to the crown and defend against foreign incursions on the empire
Dynastic line from the first Visigothic kings to Felipe VI. The monarchy in Spain has its roots in the Visigothic Kingdom and its Christian successor states of Navarre, Asturias (later Leon and Castile) and Aragon, which fought the Reconquista or Reconquest of the Iberian peninsula following the Umayyad conquest of Hispania in the 8th century.