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Philip the Handsome

Type Figure Region Habsburg lands Time 1478–1506 Also known as Philip I、Philip of Burgundy

Habsburg heir born in Bruges in 1478 to Maximilian I and Mary of Burgundy, he inherited the title Duke of Burgundy and the Low Countries, married Joa…

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  1. 1478–1494Bruges · FlandersAfter his mother Mary died, he was governed as regent by his father Maximilian and received a court education in the Low Countries. In the 1490s he gradually took personal rule, consolidating the loyalty of Flanders and the Burgundian estates to the Habsburgs.
  2. 1496–1504Lille · FlandersIn 1496 he married Princess Joanna of Castile, a union that brought the Iberian royal succession into Habsburg plans. During this period he continued to govern the Low Countries and to coordinate political relations with France and Spain.
  3. 1504–1506Burgos · CastileAfter the death of Isabella I, he and Joanna became monarchs of Castile, briefly ruling Spain's core territories. He died suddenly near Burgos in 1506, leaving a young heir and creating the conditions for Charles V's later unification of the Habsburg–Spanish hegemony.

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