Editing Louis XIV (section)

===Spain===
[[File:Louis XIV by Robert Nanteuil 1670.jpeg|thumb|left|upright|Louis{{Nbsp}}XIV in 1670, engraved portrait by [[Robert Nanteuil]]]]
[[File:Gentlemen here is the King of Spain.jpg|thumb|The future Philip{{Nbsp}}V being introduced as King of Spain by his grandfather, Louis XIV]]

The death of Louis's maternal uncle King [[Philip&nbsp;IV of Spain]] in 1665 precipitated the [[War of Devolution]]. In 1660, Louis had married Philip{{Nbsp}}IV's eldest daughter, [[Maria Theresa of Spain|Maria Theresa]], as one of the provisions of the 1659 [[Treaty of the Pyrenees]].{{Sfn|Wolf|1968|p=117}} The marriage treaty specified that Maria Theresa was to renounce all claims to Spanish territory for herself and all her descendants.{{Sfn|Wolf|1968|p=117}} Mazarin and [[Hugues de Lionne|Lionne]], however, made the renunciation conditional on the full payment of a Spanish dowry of 500,000 [[écu]]s.{{Sfn|Dunlop|2000|p=54}} The dowry was never paid and would later play a part persuading his maternal first cousin [[Charles&nbsp;II of Spain]] to leave his empire to Philip, Duke of Anjou (later [[Philip&nbsp;V of Spain]]), the grandson of Louis{{Nbsp}}XIV and Maria Theresa.

The [[War of Devolution]] did not focus on the payment of the dowry; rather, the lack of payment was what Louis{{Nbsp}}XIV used as a pretext for nullifying Maria Theresa's renunciation of her claims, allowing the land to "devolve" to him. In [[Duchy of Brabant|Brabant]] (the location of the land in dispute), children of first marriages traditionally were not disadvantaged by their parents' remarriages and still inherited property. Louis's wife was Philip{{Nbsp}}IV's daughter by his first marriage, while the new king of Spain, Charles{{Nbsp}}II, was his son by a subsequent marriage. Thus, Brabant allegedly "devolved" to Maria Theresa, justifying France to attack the [[Spanish Netherlands]].