After her death he married Elisabeth Farnese, niece of Francesco Farnese, Duke of Parma, in 1714.

In the Treaty of The Hague, signed on 17 February 1720, Philip renounced his conquests of Sardinia and Sicily, but assured the ascension of his eldest son by Elisabeth to the Duchy of Parma upon the reigning duke's death.

Elisabeth Farnese's ambitions were realized at the conclusion of the War of the Austrian Succession in 1748 when the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza, already occupied by Spanish troops, were ceded by Austria to her second son, Philip, and combined with the former Gonzaga duchy of Guastalla.

Spanish policy, dictated by Elisabeth of Parma, also moved towards recovering lost Spanish possessions in Italy from the Austrians.

His second wife was Elisabeth of Parma, daughter of Odoardo Farnese, Hereditary Prince of Parma, and Dorothea Sophie of the Palatinate.

Despite a cold reception from the Spanish royal family, especially by Elisabeth of Parma, the stepmother of her husband, she married Louis of Spain on 20 January 1722 at Lerma.

Elisabeth of Parma had also wanted the Grand Duchy of Tuscany for her son Charles III of Spain ; Gian Gastone de ' Medici was childless and was related to Elisabeth via her great grandmother Margherita de ' Medici.

In 1714, after the death of the king's first wife, the Princess Maria Luisa Gabriella of Savoy, the Piacenzan Cardinal Giulio Alberoni successfully arranged the marriage between Philip and the ambitious Elisabeth Farnese, niece and stepdaughter of Francesco Farnese, Duke of Parma.

Because the Duke Francesco of Parma and his heir were childless, Elisabeth sought the duchies of Parma and Piacenza for Charles.

Despite the celebrations, Elisabeth Farnese urged her son to go on to Parma.

His father's second wife, Elisabeth of Parma, was a domineering woman, who had no affection except for her own children, and who looked upon her stepson as an obstacle to their fortunes.

As a result, on 24 December 1714, the King of Spain, Louis ' father, married the young heiress to the Duchy of Parma, Elisabeth Farnese.

Elisabeth was born at the Palazzo della Pilotta in Parma, the capital of a duchy which had been ruled by her family for over two centuries.

Elisabeth would later become the heiress of her father's dominions after her uncle Francesco Farnese, Duke of Parma and his younger brother, both of whom remained childless.

To complicate things further, Elisabeth Farnese, heiress of the Duchy of Parma, the second wife of Philip V of Spain, as a great-granddaughter of Margherita de ' Medici, exercised a claim to Tuscany.

Her sisters included Eleonor Magdalene, Holy Roman Empress, Maria Sofia, Queen of Portugal, Maria Anna, Queen of Spain and Dorothea Sophie, Duchess of Parma and mother of the famous Elisabeth Farnese.

Dying at the age of 80, she played a central role at the Spanish Royal Court during the first years of the reign of Philip V before her ousting from the country following a power struggle with Elisabeth of Parma.

Madame des Ursins was persuaded by Alberoni to arrange a marriage with Elisabeth of Parma, hoping to govern the new queen as she had done the old.

* 10 March: Arrival of HRH Infanta Mariana Victoria of Spain in Paris ; daughter of Philip V of Spain and Elisabeth of Parma ;

* Infanta Mariana Victoria of Spain ( 31 March 1718 – 15 January 1781 ) was the eldest daughter of Philip V of Spain and his second wife Elisabeth of Parma ; born in Madrid, she moved to France in 1721 and lived at the Tuileries Palace in Paris with her proposed husband ; the engagement was broken off due to tense relations regarding the marriages of the Regents daughters marrying to of Philip V's sons.

* Elisabeth of Parma, also known as Elizabeth Farnese ( 1692-1766 ), consort of Philip V of Spain and mother of King Charles III of Spain

This violin, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, may have been part of a set made for the marriage of Philip II of Spain to Elisabeth of Valois in 1559, which would make it one of the earliest known violins in existence.

* 1545 – Elisabeth of Valois, third wife of Philip II of Spain ( d. 1568 )

Elisabeth was childless, and in 1440 made a treaty with her powerful neighbour Philip III, Duke of Burgundy that Philip would administer the duchy and inherit it after the Duchess Elisabeth's death.

Elisabeth died in 1451, but Philip accelerated things by expelling Elisabeth in 1443.

In 1467, Elisabeth, Queen of Poland, the last surviving sister, and later their son Philip the Handsome.

After Albert's childless death in 1621, Luxembourg passed to his great-nephew and heir Philip IV of Spain, who through his paternal grandmother Anna of Austria, queen of Spain, Albert's sister, was the primogenitural heir to the Queen Elisabeth of Poland.

* 1602 – Elisabeth of Bourbon, Queen of Philip IV of Spain ( d. 1644 )

In the Treaty of London ( 1718 ) it was promulgated that the heir to the duchy would be Elisabeth Farnese's elder son with Philip V of Spain, Don Carlos.

In the winter of 1559-1560, she arrived in Madrid to serve as a court painter and lady-in-waiting to the new queen, Elisabeth of Valois, Philip II ’ s third wife, who was an amateur portraitist.

Yet despite the challenge, Anguissola's paintings of Elisabeth of Valois – and later of Anne of Austria, Philip II ’ s fourth wife – were vibrant and full of life.

After the death of Elisabeth of Valois, Philip II took a special interest in Anguissola's future.

* October 6 – Elisabeth of Bourbon, queen of Philip IV of Spain ( b. 1602 )

* November 22 – Elisabeth of Bourbon, queen of Philip IV of Spain ( d. 1644 )

The story is based on conflicts in the life of Carlos, Prince of Asturias ( 1545 – 1568 ), after his betrothed Elisabeth of Valois was married instead to his father Philip II of Spain as part of the peace treaty ending the Italian War of 1551-1559 between the Houses of Habsburg and Valois.

* January – King Philip II of Spain marries his third wife, 14-year-old Elisabeth of Valois.

* October 20 – Philip of Anjou, Titular Emperor of Constantinople, marries Elisabeth of Slavonia, daughter of Stephen, duke of Transylvania and Slavonia, and Margareta of Bavaria.

John Philip Sousa was born in Washington, D. C., on November 6, 1854, to John Antonio Sousa and Maria Elisabeth Trinkhaus.

The treaty was sealed by the betrothal of Catherine's thirteen-year-old daughter Elisabeth to Philip II of Spain.

One of the terms of the treaty arranged the marriage of Louis to his cousin Maria Theresa, the daughter of King Philip IV of Spain, by his first wife Elisabeth, the sister of Louis XIII.

When the War of the Polish Succession began in 1733, Philip and Elisabeth saw another opportunity to advance the claims of their sons and recover at least part of the former possessions of the Spanish crown on the Italian peninsula.

Charles was the eldest son of Philip and Elisabeth Farnese.