Philip II

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Philip II
Defender of the faith.
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Philip II

• Philip II was the king of Spain from 1556 till
  his death in 1598.
• He was the son of a Holy Roman Emperor, Charles
  V.
• Coming into reign he had enormous potential. He
  had inherited lands from his uncle, along with a
  vast empire over seas.
• At the beginning of his rule, there was no strong
  monarch in France so Spain was left without a
  major rival on the continent.

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King of Spain

• Philip II had 4 wives in his life time.
• Maria of Portugal
• Mary I of England
• Elisabeth of Valois
• Anne

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Spanish Armada

• After the death of Mary I of England, Philip
  asked Elizabeth, Marys half sister, to be his
  bride. She refused and this angered him.
• Elizabeth and Philip were in conflict over many
  things. A major conflict was religion.
• Elizabeth was angry at the way Philip persecuted
  protestants under his control.
• Philip was mad at the way Elizabeth forced
  English Catholics to attend protestant church
  services.
• Building the Spanish Armada took a lot of
  preparation, but by July 1588 it left Spain to
  conquer England.
• Of the 25,000 men that left on the Armada about
  more than half never returned home.
• The defeat of the Armada broke the power of the
  nation that once owned half of the world.

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The End

• After the marriage refusal of Elizabeth I of
  England, he married Elisabeth of Valois.
• Elisabeth was originally promised to his son,
  Carlos, but Philip was never close to his son.
• He thought his son was plotting against him so he
  imprisoned Carlos in his room.
• Shortly after Carlos died, by starving himself in
  protest. People assumed Philip murdered him.
• Elisabeth didnt provide him with a heir so he
  married Anne, his niece, and eventually had an
  heir, Philip III.

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Philip II

• At one time Philip was known as the most powerful
  man in Europe.
• He ruled Spain at a time when many nations of
  Europe feared their power.
• He also set the once powerful nation of Spain
  into a decline.

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THE END

• Special thanks to McDougal Littell, World
  History- Patterns of Interaction.