Habsburg, House Of, Bloodlines and conflict
By a series of abdications toward the end of his life Charles V transferred his Burgundian, Spanish, and Italian possessions to his son Philip II and his functions as emperor to his brother Ferdinand, who succeeded him formally as such after his death (1558). This division of the dynasty between imperial and Spanish lines was definitive: Ferdinand's male descendants were
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