BIOGRAPHY

Philip IV was born on April 8,1605, in Valladolid,Spain. 

Philip IV of Spain was the king of Spain and Portugal during the decline of Spain as a great world power in the earliest 17th century. He succeeded his father, Philip III, in 1621 and left the throne to his son, Charles II. Philip IV was the oldest son of King Philip III and his first wife, Margaret of Austria. Following a tradition of arranged marriages for political alliance, Philip was married with 13 years old with Elisabeth daughter of Henry IV of France and he was married too with his second wife Marie de Medici in 1615. When Philip IV became king in 1621, the Spanish Empire was sliding into decline.Count-Duke of Olivares was made his valido and was determined to bring Spain back into prominence.