1469: The start of the Spanish royal
family.
Well there were many kings on the
Iberian Peninsula before and during this time...
...but 1469 marked the union of the two
major dynasties, with the marriage of
Ferdinand the second of Aragon and
Isabella the first of Castile.
Famous for helping columbus sailed the ocean blue
in 1492 and the Spanish Inquisition
during their reign the centralized power
conquered Grenada, the last Muslim stronghold 
in Spain and the word España began
to be used as a name for the united
kingdoms. When Queen Isabella died in
1504, King Ferdinand ruled her side of
Spain with their eldest surviving child
Joanna of Castile the people called
joining the mad because reasons and so
she ruled in name only confined to a
convent for the rest of her life as her
father dealt with the day-to-day
administration of the kingdom's when he
died she was of course the heir to his
throne as well but lucky for Spain
she had a son a foreign born and raised
Charles who as things would have it was
the heir to three dynasties and so
became not only King Charles the first
of Spain but also Charles the fifth
holy roman emperor king of Germany king
of Italy and after 40 years of reigning
over all of these kingdoms he abdicated. Side note since he was the first King to
rule the whole of spain in his own right
many regard him as the first king of
Spain but anyway he stepped down and the
Spanish crown passed to his only
surviving son
Philip the second of Spain who after a
succession crisis in Portugal also
became Philip the first portugal then
it passed to his son Philip the third
and his son after that Philip the fourth
will rain during very tough times for
Spain he saw the country being ripped
apart from revolts in Portugal and
Catalonia are while fighting the French
in the thirty years war he managed to
save most of catalonia although Spain
might not have it for much longer and
Portugal was lost forever
the crown then passed to Philip son
charles the second was remembered by
historians as short lame epileptic
senile always on the verge of death
because he had extensive disabilities
caused by inbreeding you see his
great-great grandfather made his own
cousin
his great grandfather made his niece who
was also a product of cousins
his grandfather made his first cousin
once removed
his father married his niece resulting
in Charles who is possibly impotent
because of all of this
and so when he died childless in 1700
his will named his grandnephew Phillip
the fifth as his successor
if he were to refuse the crown would
then be offered to Phillips younger
brother and then finally to Archduke
Charles of Austria the Archduke just
couldn't wait to be king and so claim
the Spanish throne for himself saying
that Phillips grandmother had renounced
all claims to the Spanish throne for her
and her descendants
when she married the King of France and
so the War of the Spanish Succession
broke out after 11 years of no I'm the
king
no I'm the king no I'm the king they
finally agreed that Phillip the fifth
was in fact the king
just like Charles will set all along so
Philip world for a bit then abdicated in
favour of his son Louie only to return
to the throne
seven months later when he died Philip
did have another son Ferdinand but he
was only ten at the time so Philip state
on the throne until he died then
Ferdinand take over but died child lists
so the crown passed to his younger
brother Charles the third then to his
son Charles the fourth
who's an attitude made him so unpopular
that the people revolted against him and
support of his son
the Crown Prince Ferdinand the seventh
Charles turned to his friend Napoleon
who now ruled France for some help in
resolving this mess
unfortunately Napoleon had other plans
he held them captive in France forced
both of them to abdicate and then
install his brother joseph bonaparte as
king of Spain the Spanish people hated
this in an opposition government formed
which recognized the captive King
Ferdinand as the legitimate King in his
absence they created spain's first
constitution with many liberal reforms
so when ferdinand finally returned he
was greeted with a constitutional
monarchy after entertaining the idea for
a bit he was like now I'm good and tore
up the constitution in prison liberals
and rain for the next 20 years and he
only had daughters which would be fine
in the old house of trust tomorrow and
even the house of Austria but once the
French House of Bourbon got control of
the Spanish crown
they've had a no girls allowed to policy
but on his deathbed friend's wife maria
cristina convince them to do away with
prohibition
so that their three-year-old daughter
Isabelle the second to become queen
ordinance brother challenge
this saying he was the rightful king and
so another succession crisis ensued
where Christina as regent for her infant
daughter issued a decree of amnesty for
the Liberals in the hopes that they
would support her and it worked she
managed to keep the throne for a
daughter but not without war the card
last war . the conservatives and
liberals against each other for control
of the future of Spain and finally ended
ironically with the Liberals
overthrowing is about the second and
selecting an Italian Prince amedeo who
had more liberal ideals
this was not enough anti-monarchy
sentiments crew surprising sprung up
across Spain and before things got worse
amedeo abdicated declaring that the
Spanish people were uncomfortable and a
republic was formed which lasted less
than two years after much disagreement
about what kind of Republic it would be
so the monarchy was restored to Isabel
son Alfonso the seventh who ruled a much
different spain at the absolute monarchy
of his ancestors with the new title
constitutional king of Spain this
constitutional kingship was then passed
down to his son Alfonso who became king
in the womb
since his father died before he was born
decades later he abdicated when local
elections were won by anti-monarchist
candidates and the second spanish
republic was established this to didn't
last
after a quick civil war that was won by
the fascist Francisco Franco their
leader world spain as dictator until
1975 when his hand-picked successor
juan carlos of bourbon became king the
grandson of Alfonso Franco had
intentionally skip don't whine of
barcelona the true heir to the throne
because he thought him too liberal and
hope that has chosen one Carlos would
continue his authoritarian regime
he didn't democracy was restored through
a constitutional monarchy and juan
carlos rain into his application in 2014
so that his son Philip the sixth would
not grow old waiting to become king
electrons Charles from Philippa the six
the crown continues until Leonore
princess of our Studios then to her
sister Sofia both of which could be
displaced of the King has a son and that
is a brief history of the Spanish royal
family
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