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See also:FERDINAND VI ., 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 of See also:Spain (1713-1759), second son of 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., founder of the See also:Bourbon See also:dynasty, by his first See also:marriage with Maria Louisa of See also:Savoy, was See also:born at See also:Madrid on the 23rd of See also:September 1713. His youth was depressed. His See also:father's second wife, See also:Elizabeth See also:Farnese, was a managing woman, who had no See also:affection except for her own See also:children, and who looked upon her stepson as an obstacle to their fortunes. The hypochondria of his father See also:left Elizabeth See also:mistress of the See also:palace. Ferdinand was married in 1729 to Maria Magdalena See also:Barbara, daughter of See also:John V. of See also:Portugal. The very homely looks of his wife were thought by observers to cause the See also:prince a visible See also:shock when he was first presented to her. Yet he became deeply attached to his wife, and proved in fact nearly as uxorious as his father. Ferdinand was by temperament See also:melancholy, shy and distrustful of his own abilities. When complimented on his See also:shooting, he replied, " It would be hard if there were not some-thing I could do." As king he followed a steady policy of See also:neutrality between See also:France and See also:England, and refused to be tempted by the offers of either into declaring See also:war on the other. In his See also:life he was orderly and retiring, averse from taking decisions, though not incapable of acting firmly, as when he cut See also:short the dangerous intrigues of his able See also:minister See also:Ensenada by dismissing and imprisoning him. Shooting and See also:music were his only pleasures, and he was the generous See also:patron of the famous See also:singer See also:Farinelli (q.v.), whose See also:voice soothed his melancholy. The See also:death of his wife Barbara, who had been devoted to him, and who care-fully abstained from See also:political intrigue, See also:broke his See also:heart. Between the date of her death in 1758 and his own on the loth of See also:August 1759 he See also:fell into a See also:state of prostration in which he would noteven See also:dress, but wandered unshaven, unwashed and in a See also:night-
See also:gown about his See also:park. The See also:memoirs of the See also:count of Fernan See also:Nunez give a shocking picture of his death-See also:bed.
A See also:good See also:account of the reign and See also:character of Ferdinand VI. will be found in vol. iv. of Coxes Memoirs of the See also:Kings of Spain of the See also:House of Bourbon (See also:London, 1815). See also See also:Vida de See also:Carlos III., by the count of Fernan Nunez, ed. M. See also:Morel Fatio and See also:Don A. Paz y Melia (1898).
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