Kings of Spain

The Catholic Monarchs is the joint title used in history for Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon.

Joanna of Castile,1479 to 1555, so called the mad was queen of Castile from 1504 and of Aragon from 1516. Joanna married Philip the handsome on October 20, 1496. Philip was crowned king of Castile in 1506. From her marriage, the two crowns became one.

Charles I, born in the year 1500 and dead in 1558, ruled both the spanish empire, from 1516, and the holy roman empire from 1519, including Germany, Austria, Italy... As a result, his domains spanned nearly four million square kilometers.

Philip II of Spain called the prudent was king of Spain, king of Portugal, king of Naples and Sicily and during his marriage to Queen Mary I, king of England and Ireland.He was also duke of Milan. The expression, the empire on which the sun never sets, was coined during Philip's time to reflect the extent of his dominion.

Philip III was born in Madrid to king Philip II of Spain and his fourth wife and niece Anna, the daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II and Maria of Spain. For many, the decline of Spain can be dated to the economic difficulties that set in during the early years of his reign.

Philip IV was king of Spain and Portugal. He ascended the thrones in 1621 and reigned in Spain until his death and in Portugal until 1640. Philip is remembered for his patronage of the arts, including such artists as Diego Velázquez, and his rule over Spain during the challenging period of the Thirty Years' War.

Charles II of Spain was the last Habsburg ruler of Spain. His realm included Southern Netherlands and Spain's overseas empire, stretching from the Americas to the Spanish East Indies. Known as The Bewitched he is noted for his extensive physical, intellectual, and emotional disabilities and his consequent ineffectual rule.

Philip V was the first member of the house of Bourbon to rule as king of Spain. The sum of his two reigns, 45 years and 21 days, is the longest in modern Spanish history.

Ferdinand VI called the learned, was king of Spain from 9 July 1746 until his death. Ferdinand was by temperament melancholic, shy and distrustful of his own abilities. When complimented on his shooting, he replied, It would be hard if there were not something I could do.

Charles III was the king of Spain and the spanish Indies from 1759 to 1788. Was probably the most successful European ruler of his generation. He had provided firm, consistent, intelligent leadership. He had chosen capable ministers and with your personal life had won the respect of the people

Charles IV was king of Spain from 14 december 1788, until his abdication on 19 March 1808. He was called the hunter, due to his preference for sport and hunting, rather than dealing with affairs of the state. Charles was considered by many to have been amiable, but simple-minded

Joseph Bonaparte was a French diplomat and nobleman, the elder brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, who made him king of Naples and Sicily, and later King of Spain as José I. After the fall of Napoleon, Joseph styled himself comte de Survilliers.

Ferdinand VII was twice king of Spain, in 1808 and again from 1813 to his death. He was known to his supporters as the desired and to his detractors as the felon king. He proved in many ways the basest king in spanish history. Cowardly, selfish, grasping, suspicious, and vengeful, seemed almost incapable of any perception of the commonwealth.

Isabella II was queen of Spain from 1833 until 1868. She came to the throne as an infant, but her succession was disputed by the carlists, who refused to recognize a female sovereign, leading to the carlist wars. After a troubled reign, she was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1868, and formally abdicated in 1870.

Amadeo I was the only king of Spain from the house of Savoy. He was elected by the Cortes as Spain's monarch in 1870, following the deposition of Isabella II, and sworn in the following year. Amadeo's reign was fraught with growing republicanism, carlist rebellions in the north, and the Cuban independence movement. He abdicated and returned to Italy in 1873.

Alfonso XII was king of Spain, reigning from 1874 to 1885, after a coup d'état restored the monarchy and ended the ephemeral first spanish republic. His mother abdicated in his favour in 1870, and he returned to Spain as king in 1874 following a military coup.

Alfonso XIII was King of Spain from 1886 until the proclamation of the second republic in 1931.He left Spain voluntarily after the municipal elections of april of 1931, that was taken like a plebiscite between monarchy or republic.