Philip the Good

Examples of Philip the Good in the following topics:

• Flemish Textiles of the Northern Renaissance

  • By 1433 most of the Belgian and Luxembourgian territory, along with much of the rest of the Low Countries, became part of Burgundy under Philip the Good.
  • When Mary of Burgundy, granddaughter of Philip the Good, married Maximilian I, the Low Countries became Hapsburg territory.
  • Their son, Philip I of Castile (Philip the Handsome), was the father of the later Charles V.
  • Among the most famous of Flemish tapestries is The Hunt of the Unicorn, often referred to as the Unicorn Tapestries.
  • The second of the seven tapestries, often called The Unicorn is Found.

• The Spanish Habsburgs

  • Instead of fueling the Spanish economy, American silver made the country increasingly dependent on foreign sources of raw materials and manufactured goods.
  • Philip II died in 1598, and was succeeded by his son Philip III.
  • Philip III's government resorted to a tactic that had been resolutely resisted by Philip II, paying for the budget deficits by the mass minting of increasingly worthless vellones (the currency), causing inflation.
  • Philip III was succeeded in 1621 by his son Philip IV of Spain (reigned 1621–65).
  • Portugal was lost to the crown for good; in Italy and most of Catalonia, French forces were expelled and Catalonia's independence was suppressed.

• Reinforced Concrete Construction

  • The reinforcement in the case of concrete is usually, though not always, steel reinforcing bars known as rebar, and is usually embedded passively in the concrete before the concrete sets.
  • A reinforced concrete section where the concrete resists the compression, and steel resists the tension, can be made into almost any shape and size for the construction industry, as exhibited by the Philips Pavilion .
  • When the cement paste within the concrete hardens, this conforms to the surface details of the steel, permitting any stress to be transmitted efficiently between the different materials.
  • When rebar corrodes, the rust expands and tends to flake, cracking the concrete and unbonding the rebar from the concrete.
  • The distinct shape of the Philips Pavilion was made possible by reinforced concrete construction.

• King Philip's War

  • King Philip's War was fought between the Wampanoag tribe of New England and the English colonists and their Native American allies.
  • For nearly 50 years after the colonists' arrival, Massasoit of the Wampanoag had maintained an uneasy alliance with the English to benefit from their trade goods and as a counter-weight to his tribe's traditional enemies, the Pequot, Narragansett, and the Mohegan.
  • King Philip's allies began to desert him.
  • By early July, over 400 had surrendered to the colonists, and Philip took refuge in the Assowamset Swamp, below Providence, close to where the war had started.
  • King Philip, also known as Metacom, led the Wampanoag Indians in King Philip's War.

• The Rise of the Macedon

  • Philip II’s conquests during the Third Sacred War cemented his power as well as the influence of Macedon throughout the Hellenic world.
  • Macedon’s rise is largely attributable to the policies during Philip II’s rule.
  • Philip pushed the Paionians and Thracians back, promising them tributes, and defeated the 3000 Athenian hoplites at Methoni.
  • Instead, Philip focused on subjugating the Balkan hill-country in the west and north, and attacking Greek coastal cities, many of which Philip maintained friendly relations with until he had conquered their surrounding territories.
  • In 337 BCE, Philip created and led the League of Corinth.

• Philip II and the Spanish Armada

  • The son of Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire, and his wife, Infanta Isabella of Portugal, Philip II of Spain was born in 1527.
  • Philip saw himself as a champion of Catholicism, both against the Muslim Ottoman Empire and the Protestants.
  • Following the Revolt of the Netherlands in 1568, Philip waged a campaign against Dutch secession.
  • In 1588, the English defeated Philip's Spanish Armada, thwarting his planned invasion of the country to reinstate Catholicism.
  • The war would not end until all the leading protagonists, including Philip, had died.

• Late Classical Period

  • The Late Classical period covers the last decades of the Classical periods in the fourth century BCE before the conquest of Greece by Philip II of Macedon and the beginning of the Hellenistic period following the death of Alexander the Great.
  • The weakened state of the heartland of Greece coincided with the Rise of Macedon, led by Philip II.
  • Decisively defeating an allied army of Thebes and Athens at the Battle of Chaeronea (338 BCE), Philip II became the de facto ruler of all of Greece, except Sparta.
  • Philip then entered into war against the Achaemenid Empire but was assassinated by Pausanias of Orestis early on in the conflict.
  • Alexander, son and successor of Philip, continued the war.

• The Question of Spanish Succession

  • The French claim derived from Louis XIV's mother Anne of Austria (the older sister of Philip IV of Spain) and his wife Maria Theresa (Philip IV's eldest daughter).
  • On his deathbed in 1700, Charles II unexpectedly offered the entire empire to the Dauphin's second son Philip, Duke of Anjou, provided it remained undivided.
  • Louis eventually decided to accept Charles II's will and Philip, Duke of Anjou, became Philip V, King of Spain.
  • The 1713 Treaty of Utrecht recognized Louis XIV's grandson Philip, Duke of Anjou, as King of Spain (as Philip V), thus confirming the succession stipulated in the will of the Charles II.
  • However, Philip was compelled to renounce for himself and his descendants any right to the French throne.

• Elizabeth I and English Patriotism

  • In 1554, Queen Mary of England married Philip, who only two years later began to rule Spain as Philip II.
  • Under the terms of the Act for the Marriage, Philip was to enjoy Mary I's titles and honors for as long as their marriage should last and was to co-reign with his wife.
  • King Philip acknowledged the new political reality and cultivated his sister-in-law.
  • When his wife fell ill in 1558, Philip consulted with Elizabeth.
  • However, the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1587 ended Philip's hopes of placing a Catholic on the English throne.

• The Peace of Utrecht

  • One of the first questions discussed was the nature of the guarantees to be given by France and Spain that their crowns would be kept separate but matters did not make much progress until July, when Philip signed a renunciation.
  • Above all, though, Louis XIV had secured for the House of Bourbon the throne of Spain, with his grandson, Philip V, recognized as the rightful king by all signatories.
  • The lucrative trading opportunities afforded to the British were gained at the expense of Anne's allies with the Dutch forgoing a share in the Asiento and the Holy Roman Empire ceding Spain to Philip V and being forced to reinstate the Elector of Bavaria.
  • Weakened Spain eventually grew in strength under Philip V and the country would return to the forefront of European politics. 
  • With neither Charles VI nor Philip V willing to accept the Spanish partition, and with no treaty existing between Spain and Austria, the two powers would soon clash in order to gain control of Italy, starting with a brief war in 1718.