From the HABSBURG to the BOURBON

  • 1556

    Carlos 1

    Carlos 1
    Carlos I of Spain and V of the Holy Roman Empire, called "el César", reigned together with his mother, Juana I de Castilla - the latter only nominally and until 1555
  • 1556

    Felipe 2

    Felipe 2
    Felipe II of Spain, called "the Prudent", was King of Spain from January 15, 1556 until his death; of Naples and Sicily from 1554; and from Portugal and the Algarves —as Felipe I— from 1580, achieving a dynastic union that lasted sixty years.
  • Felipe 3

    Felipe 3
    Felipe III of Spain, called "the Pious", was King of Spain and Portugal from September 13, 1598 until his death. He was the son of Philip II and Anne of Austria.
  • Felipe5

    Felipe5
    Philip V of Spain, called "El Animoso", was King of Spain from November 16, 1700 until his death in 1746, with a brief interruption due to the abdication in favor of his son Luis I, who died prematurely on November 31. August 1724.
  • Fernando 6

    Fernando 6
    Ferdinand VI of Spain, called "the Prudent" or "the Just", was King of Spain from 1746 until his death. He was the fourth son of Felipe V and his first wife María Luisa Gabriela de Saboya.
  • Charles IV the Hunter

    Charles IV the Hunter
    Charles IV in his Hunting Clothes is an oil on canvas painting of 1799 by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya, the second of his two portraits of King Charles IV of Spain. Titian's Portrait of Charles V with a dog, 1533
    While Goya devotes a great deal of attention to his depiction of the king's sash and cloth, he emphasises his weakness in his rendering of a near-portly belly and indecisive stare
  • Carlos 4

    Carlos 4
    Carlos IV of Spain, called "the Hunter", was King of Spain from December 14, 1788 to March 19, 1808. Son and successor of Carlos III and María Amalia de Saxony
  • Carlos 3

    Carlos 3
    Carlos III of Spain, called "the Politician" or "the Best Mayor of Madrid", was Duke of Parma and Plasencia —as Carlos I— between 1731 and 1735, King of Naples —as Carlos VII— and King of Sicily —as Carlos V—from 1734 to 1759 and of Spain from 1759 until his death in 1788.
  • Ferdinand VII

    Ferdinand VII
    Ferdinand VII of Spain, called "the Desired" and "King Felón (San Lorenzo de El Escorial, October 14, 1784-Madrid, September 29, 1833), was king of Spain between 1808 and 1833. reign was overshadowed by the Napoleonic invasion that placed Napoleon's brother, Joseph I Bonaparte, on the throne between May 1808 and December 1813.
  • Fernando 7

    Fernando 7
    Ferdinand VII of Spain, called "the Desired" and "King Felon", personally occupied the Spanish throne between March and May 1808 and, after the departure from Spain of the "intruder king" José I Bonaparte and his return to the country, again from May 1814 until his death, except for a very brief interval of a few days in 1823