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 ...

Philip knew that Elizabeth, as the focus for religious and political dissent, had to be handled with extreme caution, even though in the Habsburg view she might well be preferable to the other ...

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 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: ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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, ...

Philip IV was in trouble. Spain’s far-flung empire, arguably the world’s most powerful, had seriously wobbled in the 1640s — and so had the king’s family life. When the bloody Thirty Years ...

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, ...