#Charles II of Spain

[little-candy-store-of-horrors]

Cursed historical Valentines be upon ye again

[makosxa]

chares ii of spain my babyy i want to ruffle his hair and kiss him on the forehead–

[master-of-the-opera-house]

Everyone say thank you Charlie 💅

[cabiiefilms05]

remade of my Charles ii of spain draw

[solnunquamoccidit]

La adoración de la Sagrada Forma

by Claudio Coello (Castilian, 1642 – 1693) oil on canvas (300 × 500 cm), c. 1685

Real Monasterio y Sitio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial

[superbeans89]

[royal-confessions]

“I was reading about Eugenia Vallejo recently and how she was treated as some sort of freakshow act by Charles II of Spain and it made my heart hurt. Ironic too, considering his own appearance.” - Submitted by Anonymous

[belongstocaptaindoyle]

Carlos II of Spain

[theatricalenthusiast]

[vettesebas]

[little-candy-store-of-horrors]

"Bella gerunt alii, tu felix Austria nube!"

Day 6 of @spaus-week 's challenge

"Let others wage war, you, happy Austria, marry!" Was the political strategy of the Habsburgs, and marry did the House of Austria! Infamously, scandalously, sensationally. A mangled wreath of a family tree. We all know this horror story. And we all know the bitter end.

After Emperor Charles V&I divided his Spanish and Austrian inheritance ((also gained through his parents' and grandparents' marriages)) to his descendants and those of his younger brother Ferdinand I respectively, the Habsburg dynasty split into two branches. The Spanish and Austrian Habsburgs notoriously intermarried for generations, right up till Charles II of Spain whose heirless death in 1700 sparked the War of the Spanish Succession. The inbreeding and this informal Latin motto behind it has been blamed to hell and back for their implosion, for the physical ugliness that ran in this royal bloodline. But it is not to say the Habsburgs never went to war, nor that dynastic marriage was a political strategy unique to them! But they were, if anything, bloody successful at it seeing how they did rule half of Europe for 200 years, and then a lot of it in the Austrian line for another 200. Before anyone figured out inbreeding was bad it was considered a privilege to marry into the Habsburgs, with Louis XV claiming that Louis XVI's betrothal to Marie Antoinette was marrying the "Daughter of the Caesars", and Napoleon Bonaparte infamously ditching Josephine for Marie Louise. Charles II was a poor sod who took the fall and the mugs were wretched from the same ugly gene being passed around countless times*, but they did wear power and privilege well.

💅✨ Symbolism bc I'm a NERD and this my Category 10 autism event ✨💅 :

Charles V & Ferdinand I's joint portrait based on that propaganda woodcut, behind them the colours of the Habsburg flag.

The Spanish branch, comprising Charles V & I's descendants, is represented with a black background, and the Austrian branch, comprising Ferdinand I's descendants, gold, both colours pulled from their flag, a dynasty intertwined but split in two.

Round frames denote that the individual had no heirs.

Only the most influential ruler on both sides, the King of Spain and the Holy Roman Emperor, are represented as framed portraits, explaining Archduke Charles II's unframed depiction.

The unconventional placement of Charles II of Spain and Emperor Rudolf II's nameplates are a nod to their queerness: their intersexuality and bisexuality respectively.

Ferdinand III's portrait is lopsided because of the losses of the 30 Years War.

Cracks in Charles II's portrait: 🙃🙃🙃

[makosxa]

Charles ll of Spain aka that one massive chin Habsburg guy

[master-of-the-opera-house]

@cparti-mkiki told me to delete this so I'm posting it >:-)>

[queer-cosette]

actually I want a musical about the Habsburgs called House of Habsburg and it’s just about the most fucked up bits of the Habsburg family’s history. and I want it purely because I know Tumblr will be absolutely horrible about it and I’d find it really funny if we got the Charles II of Spain sequel to Miku Binder Thomas Jefferson.

[solnunquamoccidit]

Carlos II ante la Sagrada Forma

by Pedro Ruiz González (Toledan, 1640 – 1706) oil on canvas (166,2 × 232,1 cm), 1683

Museo de Arte de Ponce

November 29th marks, in the Hispanic world, the Feast of the Most Blessed Sacrament, also known as the Little Corpus (”Corpus Chiquito” or “Corpus Pequeño”). It was one of two main Catholic festivities in November alongside the Feast of the Patronage of the Virgin, which was celebrated each second Sunday of the month.

[cabiiefilms05]

Mariana of Austria and her son Carlos.

Ugly since birth

also her clothing slays