- King of Spain and Portugal -
( 1605 - 1665 )
* List of the stories
he appears in :
- D 90227 : "Treasure Under Glass", from 1991, by Don Rosa (by name only) ; - D 96066 : "The Last Lord of Eldorado", from 1997, by Don Rosa (by name only). |
* His biography :
Philip was born on April
8, 1905, at Valladolid, Spain, the son of King Philip III of Spain
and Margaret, sister of the emperor Ferdinand II.
In 1621, he accessed the throne
of Spain, Naples, and Sicily as Philip IV and on the throne of Portugal
as Philip III.
He was intelligent but lacked interest
in the affairs of state, which were handled by the conde de Olivares
and other favourites. He was one of the most frequently portrayed monarchs,
thanks to the painter Velázquez. He was also a patron of
Rubens
and Cano and was largely responsible for building up the royal collection
of paintings, which later became the basis of the Prado Museum. Calderón
de la Barca and Tirso de Molina continued the great tradition
of Spanish drama during his reign. He hired
Francisco
Nuñez Melian as salvager to recover the sunk treasures of the
Armada.
During his reign, Spain continued
to decline politically and economically. Spanish involvement in the Thirty
Years War increased as war was resumed, in 1621, in the Netherlands, and
in 1622, fighting started with France over the Valtellina question. In
1640, the war gave Portugal the opportunity to revolt, and so Philip wasn't
king of Portugal anymore. Catalonia also rose and was long occupied by
the French.
Spain had to recognize the independence
of the United Provinces of the Netherlands at the Peace of Westphalia ,
in 1648, but the war with France continued, became complicated by Spanish
intervention in the French Fronde, and ended in 1659 with the humiliation
of Spain and the Peace of the Pyrénées, during which Spain
left Roussillon and part of the Spanish Netherlands to France.
His daughter, Marie Thérèse,
was married to King Louis XIV of France.
He died on the September 8, 1665,
and was succeeded by his son, Charles / Carlos II.
* His place in the Barks/Rosa stories universe
:
In "Treasure Under Glass", Scrooge evocates
the fact that Captain Francisco Melian had been
hired by King Philip IV to find and bring back to treasure of the
Armada, sunk with a galleon in 1622.
In "The Last Lord of Eldorado", the Ducks use Melian's
map to find sunk treasures and Scrooge says that, as the map was exact,
it's not surprizing that Philip IV hired him to find sunk treasures.
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