The composite Spanish Monarchy under the Spanish branch of the House of Habsburg, formed when Charles I (Holy Roman Emperor Charles V) inherited the crowns of Castile and Aragon in 1516; at its 16th-century zenith it ruled the Americas, the Low Countries, Portugal (1580-1640), Italian territories, and the Philippines, and produced the Spanish Golden Age.
Charles II died without an heir on 1 November 1700, ending the Spanish Habsburg line and triggering the War of Spanish Succession; the Bourbon claimant Philip V was confirmed on the throne by the 1713-1715 Peace of Utrecht, beginning Bourbon Spain.
The atlas holds 4 border frames for Habsburg Spain — the shape you scrub through changes in 1516 · 1565 · 1625 · 1675.
The standard two-volume scholarly history of exactly this composite monarchy, from Charles V's accession through the Habsburg line's extinction in 1700. Open-Library-verified (multiple matching editions, e.g. /works/OL5778640W).