An interesting guy, Phillip IV. He had the good sense (almost uniquely among Spanish Hapsburgs) to marry a woman he wasn’t related to, but the bad sense to remarry a woman who was both his niece and his first cousin once removed, leading to an heir who was a (barely) walking advertisement for the evils of inbreeding.
An interesting guy, Phillip IV. He had the good sense (almost uniquely among Spanish Hapsburgs) to marry a woman he wasn’t related to, but the bad sense to remarry a woman who was both his niece and his first cousin once removed, leading to an heir who was a (barely) walking advertisement for the evils of inbreeding.