full of disabilities as soon as he entered this earth inside and out from his heart to his brain and even his organs he was born weak inheriting the pronounced habsburg jaw his cheeks had a rash and he had scabs all over his head his cranium was not fully closed and he had delays in speech walking and even eating solid foods he was a mess and it kept getting worse we're in the NUMBER_TOKENs and you can imagine there's a lot of diseases so to no surprise a vulnerable body like this would catch a lot of them when he was a child he got chickenpox rubella lung and dental infections and even smallpox which he survived but of course smallpox would leave him with scars it was a miracle how much this child could survive from due to his disabilities he could not rule by himself he needed help and his mother became his regent she was very authoritarian and being the only air left to the dynasty everything was writing on his shoulders he wasn't a vegetable he definitely could move around communicate and even express his feelings but leading a country was a lot of work and when you have this many issues it becomes even more of an obstacle though his mother could rule for him the best thing he could do was produce an heir so he was married off his first marriage lasted NUMBER_TOKEN years until his wife died nothing happened then he was married off again and his second marriage nothing happened it turns out he was impotent now you can imagine the stress the family is having here we have a huge empire and it all rests on this one man's shoulders if there's no direct clear air war will happen people will die lands will be split up it's a very scary thought towards the end of the century it was clear charles's health was finally failing and agreeing on a successor became increasingly urgent since the crown of spain allowed women to inherit this enabled charles's older sisters maria theresa or margaret therese to pass their rights to their children so marie teresa was married to louis xiv of france and margaret teresa was married to leopold of the austrian habsburg dynasty in september NUMBER_TOKEN charles became ill again and by the end of the month he could no longer eat he died on november NUMBER_TOKENst NUMBER_TOKEN five days before his NUMBER_TOKENth birthday and in his will he wrote that his successor would be his french sister's child philip of france was proclaimed king of spain on the NUMBER_TOKENth but then not everyone was happy so the NUMBER_TOKEN-year war of the spanish succession began in NUMBER_TOKEN and didn't end until NUMBER_TOKEN. of course there's a lot more detail to his life but charles didn't really have a life the irony of the situation is that the habsburgs felt their line would only survive if they only married people of royal blood this very same thought led to NUMBER_TOKEN years of inbreeding that finally failed to produce an heir and that's the tragic story of charles ii so i hope you enjoyed this video thank you for watching subscribe for more historical recreations and let me know in the comments you'd like to see in real life
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