Philippe (Bourbon) de España (1683 - 1746)

Born 19 Dec 1683 in Château de Versailles, France

Ancestors

Son of Louis (Bourbon) de France and Maria Anna Christine Victoria (Wittelsbach) de Bavière

Husband of Maria Luisa Gabriella (di Savoia) di Espana — married 2 Nov 1701 in Figueras, Cataloña, España

Husband of Elisabetta (Farnese) de Farnesio — married 25 Aug 1714 in Parma, Ducato di Parma e Piacenza

Descendants

Died 9 Jul 1746 at age 62 in Palacio del Buen Retiro de Madrid, España

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Felipe V Bourbon was a member of the aristocracy in Europe.

Biography

Philip V (Spanish: Felipe V, French: Philippe; 19 December 1683 – 9 July 1746) was King of Spain from 1 November 1700 to 15 January 1724, when he abdicated in favour of his son Louis, and from 6 September 1724, when he assumed the throne again upon his son's death, to his own death 9 July 1746.

Before his reign, Philip occupied an exalted place in the royal family of France as a grandson of King Louis XIV. His father, Louis, the Grand Dauphin,^[1] had the strongest genealogical claim to the throne of Spain when it became vacant in 1700. However, since the Grand Dauphin and Philip's older brother, Louis, Duke of Burgundy, could not be displaced from their place in the succession to the French throne, King Charles II of Spain named Philip as his heir in his will. It was well known that the union of France and Spain under one monarch would upset the balance of power in Europe, such that other European powers would take steps to prevent it. Indeed, Philip's accession in Spain provoked the 14-year War of the Spanish Succession, which continued until the Treaty of Utrecht forbade any future possibility of unifying the French and Spanish thrones.

Philip was the first member of the House of Bourbon to rule as king of Spain. The sum of his two reigns, 45 years and 21 days, is the longest in modern Spanish history.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Paternal relationship is confirmed by a 34 out of 38 Y-DNA marker match between this Family Tree DNA yDNA test for João Orléans and this Family Tree DNA yDNA test for Axel Bourbon-Parma (see YSearch IDs BNWYZ and TFXJ6) thereby confirming their direct paternal lines back to their 9th great-grandfather and MRCA on their direct paternal line Louis XIII de France.
2. ↑ Wikipedia [1]

See also:

• Wikidata: Item Q170467
  • Wikipedia Felipe V de España
  • WIkipedia Philip V of Spain
  • Great Aragonese Encyclopedia Felipe V de Castilla
  • King Felipe V on Find A Grave: Memorial #1704 Retrieved 17 sep 2016.
• Le Portrait dans l'histoire du pays de Luxembourg, par Raymond Weiller, edition 1983 en collaboration du Musée de l'Etat du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, page 58.