While the Habsburg family rose to power in central Europe as the rulers of Austria, Germany and eventually the Holy Roman Empire, the family’s influence spread westward to Spain after Philip I ...

The Habsburg jaw was most pronounced in Philip IV, King of Spain and Portugal from 1621 to 1640. 8. Scientists analysed portraits of the family dating hanging in galleries across the globe Credit: ...

The Spanish Habsburg dynasty was founded by Philip I (or Philip the Fair, son of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I) in 1516 when he married Joanna the Mad, ...

The Spanish Habsburg dynasty was founded by Philip I (or Philip the Fair, son of the Maximilian I) in 1516 when he married Joanna the Mad, ...

The surgeons scored the severity of the Habsburg jaw in the portraits analyzed and found that Charles II’s father, Philip IV of Spain, had the most prominent example of the enlarged jaw.

The House of Habsburg occupied the throne of the Holy Roman Empire from 1438-1740. ... Mandibular prognathism was most pronounced in Philip IV, King of Spain and Portugal from 1621 to 1640, ...

The 'Habsburg jaw,' a facial condition of the Habsburg dynasty of Spanish and Austrian kings and their wives, ... Charles' great-grandson Philip IV and the last in the Habsburg line, ...

The Habsburg jaw was most pronounced in Philip IV, who was king of Spain until 1665. Maxillary deficiency was diagnosed to the greatest degree in five members of the family, ...

Philip I (reigned July-September 1506) ... If the Habsburg jaw really was the result of inbreeding, the scientists explain that the traits would have had to have been recessive.

An X-ray of the under-painting published by the late Velázquez scholar Jonathan Brown shows that Mariana’s face was painted directly on top of Philip’s. The House of Habsburg was highly ...