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See also:FARNESE, See also:ELIZABETH (1692-1766) , See also:queen of See also:Spain, See also:born on the 25th of See also:October 1692, was the only daughter of Odoardo II., See also:prince of See also:Parma. Her See also:mother educated her in strict seclusion, but seclusion altogether failed to tame her imperious and ambitious See also:temper. At the See also:age of twenty-one (1714) she was married by See also:proxy at Parma to See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip V. of Spain. The See also:marriage was arranged by See also:Cardinal See also:Alberoni (q.v.), with the concurrence of the Princess See also:des See also:Ursins, the Camerara See also:Mayor. On arriving at the See also:borders of Spain, Elizabeth was met by the Princess des Ursins, but received her sternly, and, perhaps in accordance with a See also:plan previously concerted with the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king, at once ordered her to be removed from her presence and from Spain. Over theweak king Elizabeth quickly obtained See also:complete See also:influence. This influence was exerted altogether in support of the policy of Alberoni, one See also:chief aim of which was to recover the See also:ancient See also:Italian possessions of Spain, and which actually resulted in the seizure of See also:Sardinia and See also:Sicily. So vigorously did she enter into this policy that, when the See also:French forces advanced to the See also:Pyrenees, she placed herself at the See also:head of one See also:division of the See also:Spanish See also:army. But Elizabeth's ambition was grievously disappointed. The Triple See also:Alliance thwarted her plans, and at length in 1720 the See also:allies made the banishment of Alberoni a See also:condition of See also:peace. Sicily also had to be evacuated. And finally, all her entreaties failed to prevent the See also:abdication of Philip, who in 1724 gave up the See also:throne to his See also:heir, and retired to the See also:palace of La Granja. Seven months later, however, the See also:death of the See also:young king recalled him to the throne. During his later years, when he was nearly See also:imbecile, she directed the whole policy of Spain so as to secure thrones in See also:Italy for her sons. In 1736 she had the See also:satisfaction of seeing her favourite See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme realized in the See also:accession of her son See also:Don See also:Carlos (afterwards See also:Charles III. of Spain) to the throne of the Two Sicilies and his recognition by the See also:powers in the treaty of See also:Vienna. Her second son, Philip, became See also:duke of Parma. Elizabeth survived her See also:husband twenty years, dying in 1766.
See Memoires pour servir a l'histoire d'Espagne sous le regne de Philippe V, by the See also:Marquis de St Philippe, translated by Maudave (See also:Paris, 1756) ; See also:Memoirs of Elizabeth Farnese (See also:London, 1746); and E. See also:Armstrong, Elizabeth Farnese, the Termagant of Spain (1892).
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