RULERS OF EUROPE
CHAPTER 17
HAPSBURG EMPIRE
CHARLES V
RULED: HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE (INCLUDING SPAIN) and HAPSBURGH
EMPIRE
JOINED A MONASTERY AND DIVIDED EMPIRE B/T HIS BROTHER AND SON,
PHILIP II
PHILIP II – DIVINE RT, ABSOLUTE MONARCHY, INVOLVED IN EVERY
DETAIL, STRENGTHENED CATHOLISISM, FOUGHT THE PROTESTANTS,
NETHERLANDS GAINS INDEPENDENCE, AND SENDS ARMADA TO
ENGLAND.
FRANCE
HENRY IV - MARRIED TO MARIA DE MEDICI, WAS BELOVED BY HIS
PEOPLE, IMPROVED ROADS, BUILT CANALS, BRIDGES, AND HE WANTED A
“CHICKEN IN EVERYPOT” AND WAS KNOWN FOR CHANGING HIS RELIGION
FROM PROTESTANT TO CATHOLIC. HE SAID “FRANCE WAS WORTH A
MASS”, SIGNED THE EDIT OF NANTES – PROTECTING PROTESTANTS AND
ALLOWING THEM TO FORTIFY THEIR CITIES. WAS ASSASSINATED.
LOUIS XIII – KING AT 9, FOLLOWED RICHELIEU’S POLICIES,
CARDINAL RICHELIEU – SEC. OF STATE, BROKE DOWN FORTIFIED CITIES,
MADE KING POWER ABSOLUTE, ADVISED KING LOUIS XIII, DISLIKED BY
FRENCH CITIZENS
LOUIS XIV – KING AT 5, ABSOLUTE MONARCH, SUN KING, DIVINE RIGHT,
GREAT-GRANDFATHER WAS PHILIP II, INVOLVED IN ALL ASPECTS OF
RULING, BUILT PALACE OF VERSAILES, RULED FOR 72 YEARS.
CARDINAL MAZARIN –CHIEF MINISTER, WORKED TO EXPAND ROYAL
POWER
JEAN BAPTISTE COLBERT- CHIEF FINANCE MINISTER, TAXED IMPORTS,
BUILT UP TRADE, ENCOURAGED INDUSTRIES, AND MINING, MADE FRANCE
MOST WEALTHEST