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- king of ancient Macedonia and father of Alexander the Great (382-336 BC)
- son of Louis VII whose reign as king of France saw wars with the English that regained control of Normandy and Anjou and most of Poitou (1165-1223)
- king of Spain and Portugal and husband of Mary I; he supported the Counter Reformation and sent the Spanish Armada to invade England (1527-1598)
How To Use Philip II In A Sentence
- Philip III is even described as a Catholic Galen, charged with the task of purging the poison and corruption of heresy from the mystical body of Christian Spain.
- Hellenization Alexander the Great's father was Philip II, King of Macedonia, King of Macedon, and he conquered different Greek city-states by defeating Athens and its allies at Chaeronea in 338 BC.
- Some of the silver and textiles produced in viceregal Peru found their way to Spain thanks to the great royal collector Philip II.
- Spanish Armada: Great fleet sent by Philip II of Spain in 1588 to invade England in conjunction with a Spanish army from Flanders.
- Philip II considered himself the protector of the Catholic Church.
- The masses fall into two (probably chronological) groups: the first consists of those printed in 1532 and those in the manuscript Montserrat 768 (copied 1546), which are primarily parody masses; the second consists of those found in Montserrat 772 (copied 1560), which paraphrase plainsong melodies and reflect the conservatism of Philip II and his court. Archive 2009-06-01
- It seems reasonable to suppose that the work was mostly executed around 1560, but that Titian added the foliage in the upper third immediately prior to its delivery to Philip II in Spain.
- But the greatest instrumental composer of the period was undoubtedly the blind organist Antonio de Cabezón, favourite of Philip II, who was one of the first composers of genuinely idiomatic keyboard music.
- Arrhidaeus: Half brother of Alexander and son of Philip II by one of his seven wives, Philinna of Thessaly. Alexander the Great
- In the 16th century, King Philip II of Spain suspended payments to the country's creditors, mainly syndicates of Italian banks, four times; each time, they let him come back to the well. Bonds Shrug Off Revised Outlook