0 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:15,000 Early modern Spain, the Habsburgs and the Bourbons. 1 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:21,000 In the 16th and 17th centuries, Spain was ruled by the Habsburg dynasty. 2 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:28,000 Carlos I and Felipe II were the most important Habsburg kings. 3 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:33,000 In their reigns, Spain became an enormous international empire. 4 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:37,000 In the 18th century, Spain was ruled by the Bourbon dynasty. 5 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:43,000 Felipe V and Carlos III were the most important Bourbon kings. 6 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:45,000 Who said history is boring? 7 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:51,000 Today I'm going to tell you some curiosities and gossips about the kings who ruled Spain 8 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:57,000 from the 16th until the 18th centuries, the Habsburgs and the Bourbons. 9 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:59,000 Let's start with the Habsburgs. 10 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:06,000 It is known by all the characteristics all the kings in this dynasty had in common. 11 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:13,000 Known as the Habsburg jaw, which consisted of a facial deformity in the jaw due to inbreeding, 12 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:19,000 this is, marriages between biological relatives. 13 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:26,000 Let's start with Carlos I, who was born in a toilet, yes, you heard me right, in a toilet. 14 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:33,000 Juana la Loca and his husband, Felipe el Hermoso, were in a party in Belgium on the 23rd of 15 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:36,000 February in 1500. 16 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:41,000 At night, Juana started to feel sick and went to the toilet, and there is where little Carlos 17 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:44,000 was born. 18 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:50,000 Felipe II, Carlos I's son, was the next king in Spain. 19 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:54,000 He was the most powerful monarch in this time of history. 20 00:01:54,000 --> 00:02:00,000 El Escorial and the famous Silla de Felipe II, from where he could see the construction 21 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:07,000 site, are very famous, but this king had a dark side too. 22 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:14,000 He arrested his own son on the 18th of January in 1568, and after six months of several hunger 23 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:18,000 strikes, as you can imagine, he died. 24 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:24,000 Actually, some rumors say he was poisoned by his very own father. 25 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:31,000 Unfortunately, the CSI at this time did not exist. 26 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:36,000 The next king on the throne was Felipe III, who was proclaimed king the very same day 27 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:43,000 his father, Felipe II, died, on the 13th of September, 1598. 28 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:50,000 He was a very lazy king, unable to rule the country on his own, and counted on some validos, 29 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:57,000 such as the duque de Lerma and the duque de Oceda, to control the kingdom for him. 30 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:03,000 And here comes the lover, Felipe IV, who really, really loved women. 31 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:10,000 He had 12 children in total, 7 with his first wife and 5 with the second. 32 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:15,000 He had between 30 to 60 bastards, these are children who are born out of the marriage, 33 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:19,000 recognizing only 2 as his own. 34 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:28,000 Most of the women he was with were abandoned by him, and decided to go to a convent. 35 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:33,000 And last, but not least in the Hasbro dynasty, Carlos II. 36 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:38,000 This poor king was tortured, trying to help him to have children, but the doctors got 37 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:44,000 the opposite effect, he got extremely weak, and died with no hairs. 38 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,000 Let's move on now to the Bourbons. 39 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:54,000 Felipe V, now that nobody is listening, he was nuts, he was crazy. 40 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,000 He thought he was a frog. 41 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:03,000 He let his toenails grow so long, that it was impossible for him to walk properly. 42 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,000 He had a recurrent dream. 43 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:12,000 There were lots of nights in which he tried to kill a ghost, who chased him with a sword. 44 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:15,000 As I said, he was completely nuts. 45 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:20,000 His son, Carlos III, was nothing compared to him. 46 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,000 He had lots of routines in his life. 47 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:28,000 He got up every day at 6 o'clock in the morning, at 7 he had breakfast, a cup of chocolate, 48 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:31,000 a big glass of water. 49 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:34,000 From 8 to 11, he worked. 50 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:38,000 He always had the same dinner at 9.30. 51 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:45,000 He used to have a soup, some beef, a raw egg and a salad with water, sugar and vinegar.