SPAIN Philip IV (1621-1665) Copper 1659 12 Maravedis countermark 30mm (21 040)

SPAIN - SPAIN (KINGDOM OF) - PHILIPPE IV

(1621-1665)

Philip IV of Spain (1605-1665) is the son of Philip III and Margaret of Austria.
He became king on the death of his father in 1621, the year he married Elizabeth
of France (1602-1644), daughter of Henri IV and Marie de Medici. He is the
brother of Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII, and the father of Marie-Thérèse,
wife of Louis XIV. The greater part of his reign will happen in the fight
against France. From 1635, Spain entered the Thirty Years' War. After the Peace
of Westphalia in 1648, the war continues between France and Spain and ends at
the Peace of the Pyrenees in 1659. France loses definitively Catalonia, but
acquires Roussillon and Cerdanya. Mazarin and Anne of Austria Spanish arrange
the marriage of Louis XIV with the Infanta Maria Theresa he married in
Saint-Jean-de-Luz in 1660. Widower, Philip IV marries Marie-Anne of Austria, the
sister of Leopold I born with a sick son, the future Charles II of Spain
(1665-1700), the origin of the War of Spanish Succession.