TAILIEUCHUNG - AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF WESTERN EUROPE PART 2

The question of the Spanish succession. 196. The king of Spain, Charles II, was childless and brotherless, and Europe had long been discussing what would become of his vast realms when his sickly existence should come to an end. Louis had married one of his sisters, and the emperor, Leopold I, another, and these two ambitious rulers had been considering for some time how they might divide the Spanish possessions between the Bourbons and the Hapsburgs. But when Charles II died, in 1700, it was discovered that he had left a will in which he made Louis' younger grandson,. | AN INTRODUCTION TO THE History Of Western Europe PART 2 BY JAMES HARVEY ROBINSON Professor of History in Columbia University History is no easy science its subject human society is infinitely complex. Fustel de Coulanges GINN company BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO LONDON ENTERED at Stationers Hall Copyright 1902 1903 BY JAMES HARVEY ROBINSON ALL RIGHTS RESERVED The Athensum Press GINN COMPANY PROPRIETORS BOSTON . TREATY OF UTRECHT The question of the Spanish succession. 196. The king of Spain Charles II was childless and brotherless and Europe had long been discussing what would become of his vast realms when his sickly existence should come to an end. Louis had married one of his sisters and the emperor Leopold I another and these two ambitious rulers had been considering for some time how they might divide the Spanish possessions between the Bourbons and the Hapsburgs. But when Charles II died in 1700 it was discovered that he had left a will in which he made Louis younger grandson Philip the heir to his twenty-two crowns but on the condition that France and Spain should never be united. Louis grandson Philip becomes king of Spain. It was a weighty question whether Louis should permit his grandson to accept this hazardous honor. Should Philip become king of Spain Louis and his family would control all of southwestern Europe from Holland to Sicily as well as a great part of North and South America. This would mean the establishment of an empire more powerful than that of Charles V. It was clear that the disinherited emperor and the ever watchful William of Orange now king of England would never permit this unprecedented extension of French influence. They had already shown themselves ready to make great sacrifices in order to check far less serious aggressions on the part of the French king. Nevertheless family pride and personal ambition led Louis criminally to risk the welfare of his country. He accepted the will and informed the Spanish ambassador at the .

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