European Heraldry

Kingdom of Spain

• Los Reyes Católicos, the collective title used in history for Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon. The title of "Catholic King and Queen" was bestowed on them by the Pope Alexander VI.
• Philip I, also known as Philip the Handsome (1478 –1506) was the son of the Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.

Through his mother Mary of Burgundy he inherited the greater part of the Burgundian state the Burgundian Netherlands and through his wife Joanna the Mad he briefly succeeded to the kingdom of Castile.

House of Habsburg

• Charles V (1500 –1558), Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain from 1516 until his abdication in 1556.

Archduke of Austria, Duke of Styria, Carinthia and Carniola, Count of Tyrol from 1519–1521, Titular Duke of Burgundy, Duke of Brabant, Duke of Limburg , Duke of Lothier, Duke of Luxemburg , Margrave of Namur, Count Palatine of Burgundy , Count of Artois, Count of Charolais, Count of Flanders, Count of Hainault, Count of Holland, Count of Zeeland, from 1506–1555, as Charles II : Duke of Guelders, Count of Zutphen from 1543–1556 as Charles II: King of Castile and Leon, King of Aragon , Majorca, Valencia, Navarre, and Sicily, Count of Barcelona from 1516–1556 as Charles I: King of Naples as Charles IV, King of the Romans from 1519–1530 as Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor from 1530–1556 as Charles V.

• Arms of the Prince of Asturias 1527-1700
• Philip II (1527 –1598), King of Spain from 1556- 1598, King of Naples from 1554-1598 and King of Portugal and the Algarves from 1580 as Philip I. Same Arms used by all the Habsburg dynasty until the death of Charles II in 1700.
• Don Juan of Austria (1547-1578), illegitimate son of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, Governor General of the Low Countries and victor of the Battle of Lepanto.