John "The Younger" Habsburg Spain 1629-1679

On 7th April 1629 John "The Younger" Habsburg Spain was born illegitimately to Philip IV King Spain [aged 23] and María Calderón.

On 12th March 1634 [his half-brother] Francis Ferdinand Habsburg Spain died.

On 5th December 1636 [his half-sister] Maria Anna "Mariana" Habsburg Spain died.

On 9th October 1646 [his half-brother] Balthasar Charles Habsburg Spain Prince Asturias [aged 16] died.

In 1649 [his father] Philip IV King Spain [aged 43] and Mariana of Austria Queen Consort Spain [aged 14] were married. She by marriage Queen Consort Spain. The difference in their ages was 29 years. She the daughter of Ferdinand III Holy Roman Emperor [aged 40] and [his aunt] Maria Anna of Spain Holy Roman Empress. He the son of [his grandfather] Philip III King Spain and [his grandmother] Margaret of Austria Queen Consort Spain. They were uncle and niece.

On 21st December 1655 [his half-sister] Maria Ambrosia Habsburg Spain died.

On 22nd October 1659 [his half-brother] Ferdinand Thomas Charles Habsburg Spain died.

In 1660 [his brother-in-law] Louis "Sun King" XIV King France [aged 21] and [his half-sister] Maria Theresa of Spain Queen Consort France [aged 21] were married. She by marriage Queen Consort of France. She the daughter of [his father] Philip IV King Spain [aged 54] and Elisabeth Bourbon Queen Consort Spain. He the son of Louis XIII King France and [his aunt] Anne of Austria Spain Queen Consort France [aged 58]. They were double first cousins.

On 1st November 1661 [his half-brother] Philip Prospero Habsburg Spain Prince Asturias [aged 3] died.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 25th June 1663. About this all the morning, only Mr. Bland came to me about some business of his, and told me the news, which holds to be true, that the Portuguese did let in the Spaniard by a plot, and they being in the midst of the country and we believing that they would have taken the whole country, they did all rise and kill the whole body, near 8,000 men, and Don John of Austria [aged 34] having two horses killed under him, was forced with one man to flee away. Sir George Carteret [aged 53] at the office (after dinner, and Creed being gone, for both now and yesterday I was afraid to have him seen by Sir G. Carteret with me, for fear that he should increase his doubt that I am of a plot with Creed in the business of his accounts) did tell us that upon Tuesday last, being with my Lord Treasurer [aged 56], he showed him a letter from Portugall speaking of the advance of the Spaniards into their country, and yet that the Portuguese were never more courageous than now; for by an old prophecy, from France, sent thither some years, though not many since, from the French King, it is foretold that the Spaniards should come into their country, and in such a valley they should be all killed, and then their country should be wholly delivered from the Spaniards. This was on Tuesday last, and yesterday came the very first news that in this very valley they had thus routed and killed the Spaniards, which is very strange but true.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 1st July 1663. Thence home, and my clerks being gone by my leave to see the East India ships that are lately come home, I staid all alone within my office all the afternoon. This day I hear at dinner that Don John of Austria [aged 34], since his flight out of Portugall, is dead of his wounds: (not true) so there is a great man gone, and a great dispute like to be ended for the crown of Spayne, if the [his father] King [aged 58] should have died before him.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 7th July 1663. Thence walked alone, only part of the way Deane [aged 29] walked with me, complaining of many abuses in the Yard, to Greenwich, Kent [Map], and so by water to Deptford, where I found Mr. Coventry [aged 35], and with him up and down all the stores, to the great trouble of the officers, and by his help I am resolved to fall hard to work again, as I used to do. So thence he and I by water talking of many things, and I see he puts his trust most upon me in the Navy, and talks, as there is reason, slightly of the two old knights, and I should be glad by any drudgery to see the King's stores and service looked to as they ought, but I fear I shall never understand half the miscarriages and tricks that the King [aged 33] suffers by. He tells me what Mr. Pett [aged 52] did to-day, that my Lord Bristoll [aged 50] told the King that he will impeach the Chancellor [aged 54] of High Treason: but I find that my Lord Bristoll hath undone himself already in every body's opinion, and now he endeavours to raise dust to put out other men's eyes, as well as his own; but I hope it will not take, in consideration merely that it is hard for a Prince to spare an experienced old officer, be he never so corrupt; though I hope this man is not so, as some report him to be. He tells me that Don John [aged 34] is yet alive, and not killed, as was said, in the great victory against the Spaniards in Portugall of late. So home, and late at my office.

On 17th September 1665 [his father] Philip IV King Spain [aged 60] died. His son [his half-brother] Charles [aged 3] succeeded II King Spain.

In 1666 [his brother-in-law] Leopold Habsburg Spain I Holy Roman Emperor [aged 25] and [his half-sister] Margaret Theresa Habsburg Holy Roman Empress [aged 14] were married. She by marriage Holy Roman Empress. She the daughter of [his father] Philip IV King Spain and Mariana of Austria Queen Consort Spain [aged 31]. He the son of Ferdinand III Holy Roman Emperor and [his aunt] Maria Anna of Spain Holy Roman Empress. They were uncle and niece.

On 12th March 1673 [his half-sister] Margaret Theresa Habsburg Holy Roman Empress [aged 21] died.

In November 1679 [his half-brother] King Charles "Bewitched" II of Spain [aged 17] and [his sister-in-law] Marie Louise Bourbon Queen Consort Spain [aged 17] were married. She by marriage Queen Consort Spain. She the daughter of Philip Bourbon I Duke Orléans [aged 39] and Princess Henrietta Stewart Duchess Orléans [aged 35]. He the son of [his father] Philip IV King Spain and Mariana of Austria Queen Consort Spain [aged 44]. They were first cousin once removed. She a granddaughter of King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland.

On 17th December 1679 John "The Younger" Habsburg Spain [aged 50] died.