Carlos Habsburg (1661 - 1700)

Born 6 Nov 1661 in Madrid, España

Ancestors

Husband of Marie Louise (D'Orleans) d'Orléans — married 19 Nov 1679 in Quintanapalla, Burgos, Castilla y León, España

Husband of Maria Anna (Wittelsbach) del Palatinado-Neoburgo — married 14 May 1690 in San Diego, Valladolid, España

Died 1 Nov 1700 at age 38 in Madrid, España

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Biography

Carlos II Habsburg was a member of the aristocracy in Spain.

The war of the Spanish Succession ensued shortly after his death.

Charles was the son of Philip IV of Spain and his second wife, Maria-Anna of Austria. He succeeded his father at the age of four, and achieved his majority in 1676. Charles's mother acted as regent during his childhood. He became a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece in 1665.

Philip's death reignited the war between France and Spain with Louis XIV using the excuse that he was entitled to sovereignty of the Low Countries through his wife, the daughter of Philip's first marriage with Isabella of Bourbon. Deciding to exercise his claim through force, Louis XIV invaded Flanders and Hainault and then in 1667, his troops commanded by the Marechal de Crequi, invaded Luxembourg where they caused a great deal of destruction. A provisional peace was signed at Aix-la-Chapelle on 2 May 1668. Much later, again on the same pretext that the bulk of the Luxembourgish territory actually belonged to France, Louis XIV occupied the Duchy of Luxembourg and the comte of Chimay (1678-1680).

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_II_of_Spain
• Le Portrait dans l'histoire du pays de Luxembourg, par Raymond Weiller, edition 1983 en collaboration du Musée de l'Etat du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, page 54.