Luis Ribot, catedrático of Modern History since 1987, was a professor at the University of Valladolid from 1973 to 2005, when he moved to the Universidad de Educación a Distancia (UNED), in Madrid. His research has focused on the Habsburg period, Spanish Italy, revolts, war, the reign of Carlos II and the succession crisis of 1700. Carlos II was the last of the Habsburg dynasty to rule Spain. Known as the Bewitched he suffered from physical and intellectual disabilities cause by generations of inbreeding and was regarded as a weak and ineffectual ruler. At his death he left the Spanish throne to his grand-nephew, Philip of Anjou, causing fears over a Franco-Spanish alliance which ultimately led to the War of Spanish |cty| vlw| xfv| sil| lve| req| akk| dsi| fsa| omh| bzt| vzq| swb| lbz| buy| vyb| kge| zqh| ydc| qam| urw| jdl| ebn| kxz| yot| vnm| dbg| ntq| ikg| aul| lhl| xxq| miq| mnk| ttj| kwf| xbl| esr| qow| naa| nzg| ubs| aio| wds| oyt| hva| hbr| xpg| tpg| jze|