Was he the last great Spanish monarch?

>50%Spanish
>25%French
>12.5% Flemish
>12.5% German

>Muh percent.
The only thing Charlie 5 is is 100% Habsburg.

>Only the surname matters

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Spain didn't even exist when he was born.

Never said he was ethnically Spanish, but he WAS the monarch of Spain, you fucking autist.

>Spanish is not an ethnicity
>Implying that Spanish=/=portuguese
Most of the Habsburgers DNA came from Iberia. Deal with it

>king of all the Spain’s

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He married a gun?

Unironically Charles II was their best king, he just had the best advisors

>Carlos I
>best """""Spanish""""" king

He was a b*rgundian Habsburg that served Habsburg interests and should have been hanged at Villalar instead of the good guys. He was a mistake that should have never happened in the first place.

Felipe II was alright though in spite of being a Habsburg.

In the case of dynasties during this period? Fuck yes, It fucking does.

He's not a Spanish, King, he's the King of Spain. But most importantly he is the Holy Roman Emperor, forever August, King of Germany, King of Italy, King of all Spains, of Castile, Aragon, León, of Hungary, of Dalmatia, of Croatia, Navarra, Grenada, Toledo, Valencia, Galicia, Majorca, Sevilla, Cordova, Murcia, Jaén, Algarves, Algeciras, Gibraltar, the Canary Islands, King of Two Sicilies, of Sardinia, Corsica, King of Jerusalem, King of the Western and Eastern Indies, of the Islands and Mainland of the Ocean Sea, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, Brabant, Lorraine, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, Limburg, Luxembourg, Gelderland, Neopatria, Württemberg, Landgrave of Alsace, Prince of Swabia, Asturia and Catalonia, Count of Flanders, Habsburg, Tyrol, Gorizia, Barcelona, Artois, Burgundy Palatine, Hainaut, Holland, Seeland, Ferrette, Kyburg, Namur, Roussillon, Cerdagne, Drenthe, Zutphen, Margrave of the Holy Roman Empire, Burgau, Oristano and Gociano, Lord of Frisia, the Wendish March, Pordenone, Biscay, Molin, Salins, Tripoli and Mechelen.

And went by his highest title: Emperor.

>Desmene to high

>Emperor was his most important title
>set court in Spain
>99% of his armies was Spanish
>Sent Francis to Spain after he captured him
>In his last years 90% of his court was Spanish
>retired in Spain
>Considered his main branch the Spanish pne who he gave to his son while his minor branch,the empire, was given to his brother
The Habsburgs were just a continuation of the Trastamaras which they had closer ties to. Secondly they were Valois due their Burgandian holdings and thirdly Habsburg as their German titles were the least valuable of the bunch

>Ignores that the cunt travelled a lot.
>Ignores the fact that Charles V has remarked that he often felt like a foreign prince in Spain.
>Spic wasn't even his first language and he was fluent in it in the latter bit of his life
He stayed in Spain largely because it was the richest of his realms at the time.

And yes, in period's nobility's culture, you refer to yourself by your highest title. Its only after Nationcuckoldry got set up that wasnt the case.

The Habsburgs main branch was Valois+Trastamara. The Habsburg related titles were all minor and so was the opinion of Charles that gave it to his brother

>Emperor was his most important title
A title he literally bought with Castile's money
>set court in Spain
Nope. The court was wherever he was. And spent lots of years in Brussels. First one to set a permanent court in Spain was Phillip II.
>99% of his armies were spanish
Now this is quite some bullshit here
>Sent Francis to Spain
So what?
>In his last years 90% of his court was spanish
Cause the other 90% of the realm wouldn't let him govern at will and take money from the treasury as he pleased.
>Retired in Spain
So what?
>Considered his main branch the spanish pne...
That should read as "considered his main asset the Spanish pne, and more specifically the Castillian one, as that was where he could act without checks and balances and take castillian money (which was by far the primary source of money of his Empire) from the treasury at will to play with it"

>99% of his armies was Spanish
Fucking no. his armies come from fucking everywhere he was ruler of. Sure a large part of it was Spanish, but a large part of it was also German.

Fernando VI was top tier, I agree, as was Felipe V, but come on Carlos III was a good king too. Lots of adequate reforms and pretty good ministers.

>Carlos III was a good king too.
He fucked up in almost every way. Kicking the jesuits fucked up the empire as a whole,socially,specially in America and educationally, setting Spain for scientific backwardness for the years to come.
His fiscal reforms were effective at first,at the expense of angering all the colonial holdings
His support to the American rebels resulted in a geopolitical fuck up.
His lust for wars ended up fucking up infrastructure projects like the channel of Aragon and Castile that were key for the manufacturing sector that stagnated. It also fucked up the fleet as he entered in wars without preparations which led to disasters like the 7 years war when he was adviced to stay out
And not sending his sons to America as he was adviced made sure that the independence wars would become total divorces with the colonies instead of a new arrengement in the bilateral relationships.
All the crap that is blamed on Charles IV and Ferdinand VIII comes from him

>A title he literally bought with Castile's money
>Castile's money
>CASTILE'S

>Blocks your path

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I think he was probably the King that put the bigger emphasis in reforms, promotion of trade, arts, agriculture, industry, infrastructure, public works, etc ever. He esentially introduced illustrated despotism in Spain, liberalized (sort of) trade with America ending the monopoly of Cadiz, commerce (sort of) of grains, founded Correos, the Bank of San Carlos and a fuckton other of public institutions related to education, arts, commerce, the fucking botanic garden etc.

If anything he didn't went far enough and fast enough, but you can't hardly blame him or his ministers for that. The mixed results of many of those initiatives and projects are due to the ineptitude of the intermediate cadres of the administration , especially the provincial and colonial ones, as much as resistance from a sector of the population, including the ecclesiastical sector and particularly the jesuits who had become a sort of pretty wealthy state within the state.

Maybe they shouldn't have been removed from misionary activity in places like Paraguay, but that shit and all those pansy deals with the portuguese started before Carlos III.

Same with the military fiascos. Intervention in the 7 years war was inevitable and absolutely reasonable in light of the english piracy in Honduras and the alliance with France against a common enemy. Furthermore Spain didn't enter the war until the last stages, the Navy and the colonial commanders had had plenty of time to ready up yet they sit on their ass for years and showed enormous ineptitude. Same with the expedition to Algiers.

Sending 'the sons to America' is a goddamn meme. What needed to happen was a reformed in the depth of the colonial administration which was plagued with local morons criollos oligarchs as much as inept spaniards with some nobility title. But none of that had nothing to do nor really factored in "the divorce with the colonies" anyway.