SPAIN IN THE 17th CENTURY
Austrian Habsburgs rules Spain
The austrian habsburgs
The war of succesion
the Spanish monarchy fell into decline
Spain lose its political power
the economy of the Peninsula got worse
Habsburgs delegated power
to validos (advisors)
used the power for their own benefit
increased rivality among noble groups
Felipe IV (1621-1665)
Carlos II (1665-1700)
Felipe III (1598-1621)
Duke of Lerma (his valido)
Spain was bankrupt
armed conflicts ended
peace treaty/truce with
England
Protestants in Low Countries
exclusion of Moriscos (1609)
negative effect in agriculture
Count-Duke of Olivares (his valido)
tried to regain power over Europe
took part in the Thirty Years' War
centralising reforms
increase tax collection
Union o Arms
kingdoms ruled by Spain gave them soldiers for wars
Crown of Aragón opposed
the proposal failed
spain went bankrupt
domestic rebellions
portugal
conspiracies in
nobility apointed a portuguese king
Andalucia
Aragón
revolts in
Naples
Sicily
after 1648
controlled domestic revolts
end the war againts France
royal army took control of Barcelona(1652)
ended revolt of Cataluña
spanish trops defeated by French army
Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659)
France renounced Cataluña
but gained
Cerdanya
Roussilon
territories in Fralders
arranged marriage
Louis XIV (king of France)
Maria Theresa (daughter of Felipe IV)
1668
Portugal's independence
when he came to the throne
was a minor
suffered from an illness
diferent validos
France continued fighting againts Spain
france gained more territories
Carlos II didn't left heirs
conflict over succession when he died.
Carlos named Felipe Duke of Anjou has successors
was from the Bourbon dynasty
other countries thought Spain and France would unite
war of succession (1701-1713)
anti-Bourbon alliance
Carlos Archduke of Austria proposed
Felipe Duke of Anjou
proclamed king of Spain in Barcelona (1705)
support of
Court of Aragón
Court of Valencia
Court of Cataluña
Austria
Great Britain
United Provinces
Portugal
Savoy
Prussia
supported by
proclamed King of Spain in Madrid (1700)
Castilla
France
Felipe won in Battle of Almansa (1707)
conquered Valencia-Aragón
Archduke Carlos inherti trone of Audtria (1711)
fear of an union among Austria and Spain
Treaty of Utrecht (1713)
between France and coalitio (not Austria)
Felipe V took control of Barcelona(1714)
ended with Treaty of Rastatt
consecuences
France impose Felipe V as King of Spain.
but kingdoms didn't unite
Austria gained
Spanish Low Countries
Naples
Sardinia
Milan
Savoy gained
Sicily
Great Britan gained
Spain
Gibraltar
Minorca
French territories in North America
trade conncession with Spanish colonies
lost its European territories
maintained the ones in America
lowest point in Spanish decline
became a centralised state
Nueva Plata decrees by Felipe V (1707-1716)
deny the fueros and institutions
of the Crown of Aragón
replaced by Castillian laws
