Title: Dynasty and State Building in the Spanish Habsburg Monarchy: The Career of Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy (1588-1624)
Abstract: The Spanish Habsburg Monarchy was a composite state that needed several individuals of royal blood other than the ruler to govern its constituent parts. Since the dynasty was one of few central institutions, the participation of relatives in rule can be seen as part of state building at an imperial level. This essay analyzes the increasing involvement of relatives and thus the “patrimonialization” of dynastic rule in the seventeenth century. We focus on the career of Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy (1588-1624), nephew of Philip iii . His career shows first, how and why the Spanish monarchy went through a phase of increased involvement of royal relatives during his lifetime; and second, how the employment of nephews (and thus the functioning of the Habsburg composite state) took shape in the fraught context of dynastic interests, honor and diplomatic relations with the paternal families of the nephews.
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-05-24
Language: en
Type: article
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