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Sheila Himsworth, 'Marriage of Philip II of Spain with Mary Tudor', Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club, 22:2 (1962), pp. 82–100, three primary sources; Ronald Hilton, 'Marriage of Queen Mary and Philip of Spain', Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club, 14:1 (1938), pp. 46–62
Philip and Mary sixpence, 1554 Mary shilling. The weather during the years of Mary's reign was consistently wet. The persistent rain and flooding led to famine. [152] Another problem was the decline of the Antwerp cloth trade. [153] Despite Mary's marriage to Philip, England did not benefit from Spain's enormously lucrative trade with the New ...
The Act for the Marriage of Queen Mary to Philip of Spain (1 Mar. Sess. 3 c. 2), or Queen Mary's Marriage Act, was an Act of the Parliament of England, which was passed in April 1554, to regulate the future marriage and joint reign of Queen Mary I and Philip of Spain, son and heir apparent of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.
Titian's portrait of Philip as prince (1551), aged about 24, dressed in a lavishly decorated set of armour Irish groat with Philip's and Mary's initials and portraits. Philip's father arranged his marriage to 37-year-old Queen Mary I of England, Charles' maternal first cousin.
Mary Tudor (/ ˈ tj uː d ər / TEW-dər; 18 March 1496 – 25 June 1533) was an English princess who was briefly Queen of France as the third wife of King Louis XII. Louis was more than 30 years her senior.
When Mary married Philip II of Spain at Winchester Cathedral on 25 July 1554, she wore a "diamond mounted on a setting in the form of a rose, with a huge pearl hanging down onto the chest", [52] described in an Italian account of the wedding as "jewellery on the breast with a diamond in the centre, which the Prince had sent from Spain as a ...
Mary's reign, however, introduced a new coining system that would be used until the 18th century, and her marriage to Philip II created new trade routes for England. Mary's government took a number of steps towards reversing the inflation, budgetary deficits, poverty, and trade crisis of her kingdom.
Mary's marriage into the House of Habsburg proved to be a disaster for France because the Burgundian inheritance later brought it into conflict with Spain and the Holy Roman Empire. In 1493, Emperor Frederick III died. Maximilian became the de facto leader of the Empire and relinquished control of the Netherlands to his and Mary's son Philip ...