Maria Manuela was only 17 when she died, Mary I was locked in a loveless marriage with Philip taking mistresses while he was away from England, Elisabeth never got to see her daughters grow up, and Anna couldn't do anything to prevent the deaths of her children all while she and Philip unknowingly started the next round of inbreeding that would eventually destroy the Spanish Habsburg dynasty. All of their lives ended with tragedy.
He loved Maria Manuela & Elisabeth of France. He was affectionate to his niece/wife Anne of Austria. He did not like wife #2, Mary I, as she was his Dad's 1st cousin & almost a dozen years Philip's senior...
@@eburel506 if you heard he did not take mistresses with all the wives and that was common back then least he did not murder them like his former father in law Henry the 8th did
@@aprilgosa5779 I did hear (From other sources). he took mistresses while he was married to Mary. I just think it rather odd that these royal men claimed to be devote in their faith yet take mistresses. I just saying it more in general. I was happy he loved most of his wives. It’s not common you her of royal wedding being happy ones. And to Phillips credit the ones. He loved he stayed faithful too.
In his defence he didn't assassinate any of his wife like Henry Viii did. Henry had a son by his third wife, still he married thrice more. Atleast Phillip loved his last two brides. Henry Viii never loved anyone but himself.
He also treated his daughters better than Henry VIII did. He was fully prepared to have his daughters succeed him if his son died and ended up ceding the Spanish Netherlands to his oldest. He wrote letters to his daughters regularly and would appologize if he missed sending them letters. The letters to his daughters are just so sweet. I have a book of some of the translated ones and in it his oldest daughter sends a letter asking him about fashion advice and tells him that she is asking as she has no mother to ask this of because Anne of Austria died when she was 14. He tells her that her color clothing choices were fine and asks about her and her siblings' health and if they were all eating okay.
Henry VIII degenerated into almost a monster of selfishness, but he was capable of a kind of love. Some of my post can't be fully substantiated, because it's based on insufficient documentary evidence and some historians' conclusions. He seems to have loved his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, at first, but then treated her very badly when she failed to give him a son. By then he was passionately in love with Anne Boleyn--some of his love letters survive--but apparently the fun was in the courtship. Once they were married, her mercurial personality became less attractive, she produced no son, and he got rid of her (execution) to marry his third, Jane Seymour, who was apparently much meeker and more restful than Anne. He certainly mourned her death in childbirth. And he was, apparently, besotted with the very young Catherine Howard, his fifth. But n each case, how much it was a matter of sexual attraction, how much a desire for a son, and how much any real love (as opposed to infatuation or romantic "being in love") is hard to say.
@@savagedarksider5934 In his defense, the English people hated him, Mary's ministers even more so. And Mary was supposedly a troubled woman thanks to her father. It does suck that she died loving a man who couldn't stand her.
"She became acquainted with two female paintings who stayed with her the rest of her life." is a sentence which makes zero sense. My best guess is that she acquired two ladies in waiting. Honestly this script needed an editor.
Very interesting to hear about Philip's life from his point of view. Born and educated in England, I tended to hear about him from the English viewpoint, i.e, that he married Mary for political reasons, never loved her (of course, she was so much older than he and was prematurely old for her age), treated her very coldly and unkindly, lusted after her younger sister, Elizabeth, and possibly encouraged Mary to execute heretics. I didn't know much about his other wives, other than that Verdi's opera "Don Carlo" was loosely based on his son's life. I do ust quibble about the idea of Philip loving Mary. Wasn't he repulsed by her and embarrassed by her devotion to him?
Maria Manuela was the double first cousin of Philip. His mother, Isabella, was the sister of Maria Manela's father, and his father, Charles V, was the brother of her mother, Catherine.
I believe Henry VIII's love life would be arguably considered self-imposed tragedy, while Phillip's more of circumstances beyond his control. As for the comment under this one - yes, you have a point, *however* you're not looking at the events (as much as one can) through the eyes of someone living in those times. Both inbreeding in aristocratic circles and having mistresses were normal. Beheading your wives and breaking your country away from the Catholic church whilst setting yourself up as the Supreme Head of the Church of State were not.
Marry someone you know you wont be able to love just for titles, mistreat horribly and then immediately after death go after her detested sister. Who wouldn't want to marry that ?
I remember how Phillip was portrayed in the movie Elizabeth: The Golden Age. It was not what I expected for the histories I had read about him. And in that movie, he had a daughter but no wife was shown. I can’t remember what the girl’s name was so I don’t know if it was even accurate. I was just glad his armada got their butts kicked and it was a huge embarrassment for him and his country.
Except it wasn't. THat's jsut what English get told in school. The Armada was destroyed by the storn, it was not "butts kicked", and therefore, it was definitely not a huge embarrassment neither for him nor Spain. It was big for England, because they built their nationalist myth around it, but Spain didn't even blink. You dont' get embarrassed over a storm, however, if you're a sorry country with no vistories, you make one out of sinking a ship and geeting luck there's a storm going on.
@@goodaimshield1115 Another fact the movie got wrong! Never did make sense why in the first movie Philip wanted to marry her and in the second he couldn’t stand her. I’m surprised Spain would allow the movie to print that part right before the credits about it being the worst disaster in their naval history. I was glad that Nature “kicked their butts”, because I thought it was wrong enough when Queen Mary (Elizabeth’s sister) was killing so many people because they weren’t catholic. I thought it wrong that another country would want to start up the killing again. I’m sure Elizabeth killed many too, but somehow she didn’t get the title Bloody Elizabeth. It would be neat to go back and be an invisible observer to see everything for ourselves.
Carlos was mentally unstable and was imprisoned by his father after he tried to stab the Duke of Alba, shoot his half-uncle John of Austria, and plotted to kill his father. He tried to starve himself and died imprison.
Get em young, slap them into the shape you want, breed them, if they die oh well there’s plenty more families happy to sacrifice female children to their cause
The Philippines was named after Philipp the 2nd, and remains so to this day. Despite several attempts to change this colonial name, another name could not be agreed upon. It is very disconcerting to have to explain why a country would be named after such an undistinguished king. His wife Bloody Mary is more popular in history books than him.
Dying of the bloodloss caused. Who wrote this? The whole thing reads like something poorly translated from another language. I am fascinated by this topic but don't understand the poor quality. If you need help I'd be glad to edit!
@@absolutelyalice1754 that's not the point of my comment, the narrative for this entire thing is either in the passive voice or sounds like it's written by an alien from another planet pretending to speak English
@@rncine really? I actually offered to help. It's ok to have a minimum of standards maybe you are trying to bully me, otoh if you can't see the problem i understand why you are making these kind of remarks
@@drelevatorlestrange Do you realize this channel already has 68k people watching in a short amount of time. That tells you something……. You don’t have to be so rude!
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Maria Manuela was only 17 when she died, Mary I was locked in a loveless marriage with Philip taking mistresses while he was away from England, Elisabeth never got to see her daughters grow up, and Anna couldn't do anything to prevent the deaths of her children all while she and Philip unknowingly started the next round of inbreeding that would eventually destroy the Spanish Habsburg dynasty. All of their lives ended with tragedy.
Yeah its actually irritating they say he was devotedly religious but he kept taking mistresses. Not very devoted.
He loved Maria Manuela & Elisabeth of France. He was affectionate to his niece/wife Anne of Austria. He did not like wife #2, Mary I, as she was his Dad's 1st cousin & almost a dozen years Philip's senior...
@@jamellfoster6029 Didn’t he leave her (Mary) after the second imagined pregnancy?
@@eburel506 if you heard he did not take mistresses with all the wives and that was common back then least he did not murder them like his former father in law Henry the 8th did
@@aprilgosa5779 I did hear (From other sources). he took mistresses while he was married to Mary. I just think it rather odd that these royal men claimed to be devote in their faith yet take mistresses. I just saying it more in general. I was happy he loved most of his wives. It’s not common you her of royal wedding being happy ones. And to Phillips credit the ones. He loved he stayed faithful too.
In his defence he didn't assassinate any of his wife like Henry Viii did. Henry had a son by his third wife, still he married thrice more. Atleast Phillip loved his last two brides. Henry Viii never loved anyone but himself.
He also treated his daughters better than Henry VIII did. He was fully prepared to have his daughters succeed him if his son died and ended up ceding the Spanish Netherlands to his oldest. He wrote letters to his daughters regularly and would appologize if he missed sending them letters. The letters to his daughters are just so sweet. I have a book of some of the translated ones and in it his oldest daughter sends a letter asking him about fashion advice and tells him that she is asking as she has no mother to ask this of because Anne of Austria died when she was 14. He tells her that her color clothing choices were fine and asks about her and her siblings' health and if they were all eating okay.
Henry VIII degenerated into almost a monster of selfishness, but he was capable of a kind of love. Some of my post can't be fully substantiated, because it's based on insufficient documentary evidence and some historians' conclusions. He seems to have loved his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, at first, but then treated her very badly when she failed to give him a son. By then he was passionately in love with Anne Boleyn--some of his love letters survive--but apparently the fun was in the courtship. Once they were married, her mercurial personality became less attractive, she produced no son, and he got rid of her (execution) to marry his third, Jane Seymour, who was apparently much meeker and more restful than Anne. He certainly mourned her death in childbirth. And he was, apparently, besotted with the very young Catherine Howard, his fifth. But n each case, how much it was a matter of sexual attraction, how much a desire for a son, and how much any real love (as opposed to infatuation or romantic "being in love") is hard to say.
@@absolutelyalice1754 People give him A hard time because how he abandoned Mary I and his treatment of her.
@@savagedarksider5934 In his defense, the English people hated him, Mary's ministers even more so. And Mary was supposedly a troubled woman thanks to her father. It does suck that she died loving a man who couldn't stand her.
@@jessjess23brooks89 Mary was being punished because she was born A girl. As for philip; how you feel about marrying your father's reject ?
"She became acquainted with two female paintings who stayed with her the rest of her life." is a sentence which makes zero sense. My best guess is that she acquired two ladies in waiting. Honestly this script needed an editor.
Maria Manuela was not his second cousin. she was his DOUBLE first cousin
Mary 1 was his cousin once removed actually
Prince Carlos was basically King Joffrey in Game of Thrones.
Very interesting to hear about Philip's life from his point of view. Born and educated in England, I tended to hear about him from the English viewpoint, i.e, that he married Mary for political reasons, never loved her (of course, she was so much older than he and was prematurely old for her age), treated her very coldly and unkindly, lusted after her younger sister, Elizabeth, and possibly encouraged Mary to execute heretics. I didn't know much about his other wives, other than that Verdi's opera "Don Carlo" was loosely based on his son's life. I do ust quibble about the idea of Philip loving Mary. Wasn't he repulsed by her and embarrassed by her devotion to him?
Elizabeth of France was the only one of Philip's wives who was not a close blood relative. Inbreeding doomed the Spanish Habsburgs.
Philip and Maria Manuela were DOUBLE first cousins, and he was 1st once removed cousin to Mary I.
Yuk 🤢
And his fourth wife was his NIECE!
Practically siblings.
Maria Manuela was the double first cousin of Philip. His mother, Isabella, was the sister of Maria Manela's father, and his father, Charles V, was the brother of her mother, Catherine.
Very interesting video! I was aware of his 4 wives, but you taught more in depth information on them!
I believe Henry VIII's love life would be arguably considered self-imposed tragedy, while Phillip's more of circumstances beyond his control.
As for the comment under this one - yes, you have a point, *however* you're not looking at the events (as much as one can) through the eyes of someone living in those times. Both inbreeding in aristocratic circles and having mistresses were normal. Beheading your wives and breaking your country away from the Catholic church whilst setting yourself up as the Supreme Head of the Church of State were not.
Marry someone you know you wont be able to love just for titles, mistreat horribly and then immediately after death go after her detested sister. Who wouldn't want to marry that ?
Seriously, such a catch, right? 😂
@@butterchicken83 To be fair: his daddy made him marry her because he didn't want to marry her.
(pssst... you DO know that the movie was fictionalized, RIGHT?)
smh
Very sad story. I can't imagine what it would be like to lose that many loved ones and to live out the rest of your life practically alone
He caused it all and as a ‘war monger’ he caused misery on all the people who he went to war with.
This man alone is worth 15% of my Alevel
At least he didn't mistreat them like Henry the asshole
I remember how Phillip was portrayed in the movie Elizabeth: The Golden Age. It was not what I expected for the histories I had read about him. And in that movie, he had a daughter but no wife was shown. I can’t remember what the girl’s name was so I don’t know if it was even accurate. I was just glad his armada got their butts kicked and it was a huge embarrassment for him and his country.
Except it wasn't. THat's jsut what English get told in school. The Armada was destroyed by the storn, it was not "butts kicked", and therefore, it was definitely not a huge embarrassment neither for him nor Spain. It was big for England, because they built their nationalist myth around it, but Spain didn't even blink. You dont' get embarrassed over a storm, however, if you're a sorry country with no vistories, you make one out of sinking a ship and geeting luck there's a storm going on.
@@goodaimshield1115 Another fact the movie got wrong! Never did make sense why in the first movie Philip wanted to marry her and in the second he couldn’t stand her. I’m surprised Spain would allow the movie to print that part right before the credits about it being the worst disaster in their naval history. I was glad that Nature “kicked their butts”, because I thought it was wrong enough when Queen Mary (Elizabeth’s sister) was killing so many people because they weren’t catholic. I thought it wrong that another country would want to start up the killing again. I’m sure Elizabeth killed many too, but somehow she didn’t get the title Bloody Elizabeth. It would be neat to go back and be an invisible observer to see everything for ourselves.
His daughter in the Golden Age movie was Isabella Clara Eugenia, that he had with his third wife Elisabeth de France.
Philip never love Mary I of England; she was too old and clinging.
I'm a little confused. What happened to his son Carlos with Maria Manuela? You said later Philip had no male heirs until his last wife, Anna.
He was locked up bc of mental problems, and then he died when he was 13.
Phillip had him locked up until he died in 1568.
Carlos was mentally unstable and was imprisoned by his father after he tried to stab the Duke of Alba, shoot his half-uncle John of Austria, and plotted to kill his father. He tried to starve himself and died imprison.
@@absolutelyalice1754 yeah I heard he was very violent cause of his mental impairments.
Boy these guys really used to chew through the wives
He had the Habsburg jaw. Dunno how anybody could consider that good looking, unless they're another Habsburg.
Unless they looked worse than him Lol
His written physical description, dont match any of his paintings. Lol😂
At all!😂
Forgot to mention that very long chin 😆
I can't help but notice that the two wives he liked so much were children when they wed. 🙄
Get em young, slap them into the shape you want, breed them, if they die oh well there’s plenty more families happy to sacrifice female children to their cause
Great video I enjoyed it
The Philippines was named after Philipp the 2nd, and remains so to this day. Despite several attempts to change this colonial name, another name could not be agreed upon. It is very disconcerting to have to explain why a country would be named after such an undistinguished king. His wife Bloody Mary is more popular in history books than him.
phillip tragic, they all died of natral causes! henry, self induced, through self importance, paranoia and murder as well, pathetic
Well done!!
Eww! It’s so sad these people didn’t have a clue about inbreeding. One would think the creepiness would be enough!
Too many videos! Slow it down by half at least!
And I thought my love life was bad.
There's nothing like Historical facts to help you bring back perspectives in your life 🤭
Dying of the bloodloss caused. Who wrote this? The whole thing reads like something poorly translated from another language. I am fascinated by this topic but don't understand the poor quality. If you need help I'd be glad to edit!
Well technically she died of a hemorrhage caused by childbirth which is blood loss.
@@absolutelyalice1754 that's not the point of my comment, the narrative for this entire thing is either in the passive voice or sounds like it's written by an alien from another planet pretending to speak English
Dr.A. I would interpret you as a bully. This is not an English Channel but an informative history channel
@@rncine really? I actually offered to help. It's ok to have a minimum of standards maybe you are trying to bully me, otoh if you can't see the problem i understand why you are making these kind of remarks
@@drelevatorlestrange Do you realize this channel already has 68k people watching in a short amount of time. That tells you something……. You don’t have to be so rude!
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Wtf dude, are you okay xdd