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Biography of John "The Younger" Habsburg Spain 1629-1679

Paternal Family Tree: Habsburg

On 7th April 1629 John "The Younger" Habsburg Spain was born illegitimately to Philip IV King Spain (age 23) and María Calderón.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 25th June 1663. About this all the morning, only Mr. Bland came to me about some business of his, and told me the news, which holds to be true, that the Portuguese did let in the Spaniard by a plot, and they being in the midst of the country and we believing that they would have taken the whole country, they did all rise and kill the whole body, near 8,000 men, and Don John of Austria (age 34) having two horses killed under him, was forced with one man to flee away. Sir George Carteret (age 53) at the office (after dinner, and Creed being gone, for both now and yesterday I was afraid to have him seen by Sir G. Carteret with me, for fear that he should increase his doubt that I am of a plot with Creed in the business of his accounts) did tell us that upon Tuesday last, being with my Lord Treasurer (age 56), he showed him a letter from Portugall speaking of the advance of the Spaniards into their country, and yet that the Portuguese were never more courageous than now; for by an old prophecy, from France, sent thither some years, though not many since, from the French King, it is foretold that the Spaniards should come into their country, and in such a valley they should be all killed, and then their country should be wholly delivered from the Spaniards. This was on Tuesday last, and yesterday came the very first news that in this very valley they had thus routed and killed the Spaniards, which is very strange but true.

1663 Battle of Ameixial

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 29th June 1663. Up betimes and to my office, and by and by to the Temple [Map], and there appointed to meet in the evening about my business, and thence I walked home, and up and down the streets is cried mightily the great victory got by the Portugalls against the Spaniards, where 10,000 slain, 3 or 4,000 taken prisoners, with all the artillery, baggage, money, &c., and Don John of Austria (age 34)1 forced to flee with a man or two with him, which is very great news.

Note 1. He was natural son of [his father] Philip IV., King of Spain (age 58), who, after his father's death in 1665, exerted his whole influence to overthrow the Regency appointed during the young king's minority. B.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 1st July 1663. Thence home, and my clerks being gone by my leave to see the East India ships that are lately come home, I staid all alone within my office all the afternoon. This day I hear at dinner that Don John of Austria (age 34), since his flight out of Portugall, is dead of his wounds: (not true) so there is a great man gone, and a great dispute like to be ended for the crown of Spayne, if the [his father] King (age 58) should have died before him.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 7th July 1663. Thence walked alone, only part of the way Deane (age 29) walked with me, complaining of many abuses in the Yard, to Greenwich, Kent [Map], and so by water to Deptford, where I found Mr. Coventry (age 35), and with him up and down all the stores, to the great trouble of the officers, and by his help I am resolved to fall hard to work again, as I used to do. So thence he and I by water talking of many things, and I see he puts his trust most upon me in the Navy, and talks, as there is reason, slightly of the two old knights, and I should be glad by any drudgery to see the King's stores and service looked to as they ought, but I fear I shall never understand half the miscarriages and tricks that the King (age 33) suffers by. He tells me what Mr. Pett (age 52) did to-day, that my Lord Bristoll (age 50) told the King that he will impeach the Chancellor (age 54) of High Treason: but I find that my Lord Bristoll hath undone himself already in every body's opinion, and now he endeavours to raise dust to put out other men's eyes, as well as his own; but I hope it will not take, in consideration merely that it is hard for a Prince to spare an experienced old officer, be he never so corrupt; though I hope this man is not so, as some report him to be. He tells me that Don John (age 34) is yet alive, and not killed, as was said, in the great victory against the Spaniards in Portugall of late. So home, and late at my office.

On 17th September 1665 [his father] Philip IV King Spain (age 60) died. His son [his half-brother] Charles (age 3) succeeded II King Spain.

On 17th December 1679 John "The Younger" Habsburg Spain (age 50) died.

Royal Ancestors of John "The Younger" Habsburg Spain 1629-1679

Kings Wessex: Great x 18 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England

Kings Gwynedd: Great x 16 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd

Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 22 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth

Kings Powys: Great x 17 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys

Kings England: Great x 8 Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Kings Scotland: Great x 17 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland

Kings Franks: Great x 14 Grand Son of Louis VII King Franks

Kings France: Great x 10 Grand Son of King Philip IV of France

Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 22 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine

Ancestors of John "The Younger" Habsburg Spain 1629-1679

Great x 4 Grandfather: Maximilian Habsburg I Holy Roman Emperor 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Philip "Handsome Fair" King Castile 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Valois Duchess Burgundy 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Charles V Holy Roman Emperor 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Ferdinand II King Aragon 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Joanna "The Mad" Trastámara Queen Castile 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabella Queen Castile 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: Philip "The Prudent" II King Spain 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Ferdinand Aviz 2nd Duke Viseu 2 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Manuel "Fortunate" I King Portugal 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Beatrice Aviz Duchess Viseu 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Isabel Aviz Queen Consort Spain 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Ferdinand II King Aragon 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Maria Trastámara Queen Consort Portugal 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabella Queen Castile 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

GrandFather: Philip III King Spain 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Philip "Handsome Fair" King Castile 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Ferdinand I Holy Roman Emperor 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Joanna "The Mad" Trastámara Queen Castile 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Maximilian Habsburg Spain II Holy Roman Emperor 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Vladislaus II King Hungary 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Jagiellon 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Anna Foix Queen Consort of Hungary and Bohemia 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 1 Grandmother: Anna of Austria Queen Consort Spain 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Philip "Handsome Fair" King Castile 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Charles V Holy Roman Emperor 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Joanna "The Mad" Trastámara Queen Castile 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Maria of Spain Holy Roman Empress 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Manuel "Fortunate" I King Portugal 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Isabel Aviz Queen Consort Spain 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Maria Trastámara Queen Consort Portugal 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Father: Philip IV King Spain 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Maximilian Habsburg I Holy Roman Emperor 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Philip "Handsome Fair" King Castile 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Valois Duchess Burgundy 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Ferdinand I Holy Roman Emperor 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Ferdinand II King Aragon 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Joanna "The Mad" Trastámara Queen Castile 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabella Queen Castile 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: Charles Habsburg Spain II Archduke Austria 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Casimir IV King Poland

Great x 3 Grandfather: Vladislaus II King Hungary 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elisabeth Habsburg Queen Consort Poland 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Jagiellon 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Gaston de Foix 2nd Earl Kendal 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Anna Foix Queen Consort of Hungary and Bohemia 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine of Foix Countess Kendal 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England

GrandMother: Margaret of Austria Queen Consort Spain 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Albert Wittelsbach IV Duke Bavaria 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Wittelsbach IV Duke Bavaria 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Kunigunde Habsburg Duchess Bavaria 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Albert V Wittelsbach V Duke Bavaria 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Philip Baden 1st Margrave Baden 11 x Great Grand Son of King Stephen I England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Marie Jakobaea Baden Duchess Bavaria 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elisabeth of the Palatinate 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 1 Grandmother: Maria Anna Wittelsbach 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Philip "Handsome Fair" King Castile 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Ferdinand I Holy Roman Emperor 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Joanna "The Mad" Trastámara Queen Castile 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Anna Habsburg Spain Duchess Bavaria 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Vladislaus II King Hungary 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Jagiellon 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Anna Foix Queen Consort of Hungary and Bohemia 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

John "The Younger" Habsburg Spain 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Mother: María Calderón