5-Felipe II
DOMESTIC PROBLEMS
A GLOBAL EMPIRE
Carlos V
divided the impare
to the difficulties he experienced in controlling them
He gave Austria
1580
Imperial Crown to his brother Ferdinand
son Felipe II was given the rest of his territorial patrimony
The Low Countries and Franche-Comté.
Castilla and his territories in the Americas
The Crown of Aragón and his Italian territories.
the king of Portugal died
defeated the Portuguese nobles who opposed these territories being taken by the Spanish Monarchy
Felipe II increased bureaucracy by founding the Council of Portugal and granting more power to the secretaries
Antonio Pérez
the kingdoms on the Peninsula
although they maintained their own institutions and specific law
was accused of an assassination in Castilla he was able to take refuge in Aragón
exercising his rights under the laws of this kingdom
Carlos V had left the Crown in financial ruin.
than the income it received and Felipe II had to declare the Crown bankrupt
The policy of imposing Catholicism and discriminating
War of the Alpujarras
was finally suppressed the army led by John of Austria in 1570.
against the religious minorities caused the Moriscos in Granada to revolt in 1568.