Philip IV

American  

noun

1. Philip the Fair, 1268–1314, king of France 1285–1314.

2. 1605–65, king of Spain 1621–65 (son of Philip III).

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Philip IV British  

noun

1. known as Philip the Fair. 1268–1314, king of France (1285–1314): he challenged the power of the papacy, obtaining the elevation of Clement V as pope residing at Avignon (the beginning of the Babylonian captivity of the papacy)

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Example Sentences

Six feet tall, richly embossed, enhanced with jewels, crowned with a gilded cross and bearing a dozen gilded angels, it was commissioned by the Spanish king Philip IV, who died before delivery.

From The Wall Street Journal

She had already been married to the king for three years, wedded first by proxy when Philip IV was off at war, and she was still in Vienna, and then in person after her arrival in Spain.

From Los Angeles Times

In an indispensable new book from Yale University Press, “Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV,” historian Amanda Wunder unearths the long-neglected story of Aguado, an applied artist who toiled for the royal household almost as long as the painter did.

From Los Angeles Times

Ecce Homo is believed to have belonged to the private collection of Spain's King Philip IV, before being exhibited in the apartments of his son, Charles II.

From BBC

One of the downgraded was a portrait of Philip IV that had been listed as a Velásquez.

From New York Times