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Infante Carlos of Spain (1607–1632)

Spanish prince of the 17th century

Summary

Spanish prince of the 17th century

Field	Value
image	Carlos de Austria, infante de España.jpg
caption	Portrait by Diego Velázquez, 1627
birth_date	15 September 1607
death_date	30 July 1632
burial_place	El Escorial
house	Habsburg
father	Philip III of Spain
mother	Margaret of Austria

(aged 24) Infante Carlos of Spain (15 September 1607 – 30 July 1632), was the second son of King Philip III of Spain and his queen consort, Margaret of Austria.

Life

Infante Carlos was the younger brother of Philip IV, and, as long as the King remained childless, was heir to the Spanish throne. Carlos was never a friend of Philip's favourite and prime minister, the Count-Duke of Olivares, and though he was uninterested in politics, he was used by various nobles in attempts to overthrow Olivares.

During his brother's severest illness, Carlos was on the point of ascending the throne, but Felipe recovered and in 1629 finally fathered a son, Balthasar Carlos. This dissipated Carlos's political importance completely.

Contemporaries described Infante Carlos as prudent and liberal and he seemed to have been a "vigilant observer of royal customs". Other than his brother Fernando, who was assigned a role at an early age, he remained in a child-like position until his mid-twenties. Although he received official visits and expressed political opinions, he remained without an own household, remaining in the household of the king.

Carlos died in 1632, aged 24. Francisco de Quevedo dedicated a sonnet entitled The Burial of the Most Serene Infante Don Carlos to this event.

File:Coat of Arms of Charles of Austria, Infante of Spain.svg|Arms of Charles of Austria

Ancestry

Male-line family tree

References

Hoffman, Martha K.. (2014). "Childhood and Royalty at the Court of Philip III".
Hoffman, Martha K.. "Raised to Rule: Educating Royalty at the Court of the Spanish Habsburgs, 1601 - 1634". Louisiana State University Press.
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