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{{Infobox royalty
| image        = Carlos de Austria, infante de España.jpg
| caption      = [[Portrait of the Infante Don Carlos|Portrait]] by [[Diego Velázquez]], 1627
| birth_date   = 15 September 1607
| birth_place  =
| death_date   = 30 July 1632
(aged 24)
| death_place  =
| burial_date  =
| burial_place = [[El Escorial]]
| house        = [[House of Habsburg|Habsburg]]
| father       = [[Philip III of Spain]]
| mother       = [[Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain|Margaret of Austria]]
}}
{{Other people|Don Carlos of Spain}}
{{short description|Spanish prince of the 17th century}}
{{more citations needed|date=August 2017}}
{{House of Habsburg (Spain)}}
'''Infante Carlos of Spain''' (15 September 1607 – 30 July 1632), was the second son of [[King Philip III of Spain]] and his [[queen consort]], [[Margaret of Austria (1584–1611)|Margaret of Austria]].
==Life==
[[Infante]] Carlos was the younger brother of [[Philip IV of Spain|Philip IV]], and, as long as the King remained childless, was heir to the Spanish throne. Carlos was never a friend of Philip's favourite and prime minister, the [[Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares|Count-Duke of Olivares]], and though he was uninterested in politics, he was used by various nobles in attempts to overthrow Olivares.
During his brother's severest illness, Carlos was on the point of ascending the throne, but Felipe recovered and in 1629 finally fathered a son, [[Balthasar Charles, Prince of Asturias|Balthasar Carlos]]. This dissipated Carlos's political importance completely.
Contemporaries described Infante Carlos as prudent and liberal and he seemed to have been a "vigilant observer of royal customs".<ref>{{Cite book|last=Hoffman|first=Martha K.|title=Childhood and Royalty at the Court of Philip III|year=2014|isbn=9781472428806|editor-last=Coolidge|editor-first=Grace E.|series=New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies|pages=139}}</ref> Other than his brother [[Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria|Fernando]], who was assigned a role at an early age, he remained in a child-like position until his mid-twenties. Although he received official visits and expressed political opinions, he remained without an own household, remaining in the household of the king.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Hoffman|first=Martha K.|title=Raised to Rule: Educating Royalty at the Court of the Spanish Habsburgs, 1601 - 1634|publisher=Louisiana State University Press|pages=Chapter 7, esp. 153 - 154, 162 - 166}}</ref>
Carlos died in 1632, aged 24. [[Francisco de Quevedo]] dedicated a sonnet entitled ''The Burial of the Most Serene Infante Don Carlos'' to this event.
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File:Coat of Arms of Charles of Austria, Infante of Spain.svg|Arms of Charles of Austria
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== Ancestry ==
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| 1 = 1. '''Charles of Austria'''
| 2 = 2. [[Philip III of Spain]]
| 3 = 3. [[Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain|Margaret of Austria]]
| 4 = 4. [[Philip II of Spain]]<ref name="BLKO-Philip III">{{BLKO |wstitle=Habsburg, Philipp III. |volume=7 |page=120}}</ref>
| 5 = 5. [[Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain|Anna of Austria]]<ref name="BLKO-Philip III"/>
| 6 = 6. [[Charles II, Archduke of Austria]]<ref name="BLKO-Margaretha">{{BLKO |wstitle=Habsburg, Margaretha (Königin von Spanien) |volume=7 |page=13}}</ref>
| 7 = 7. [[Maria Anna of Bavaria (1551–1608)|Maria Anna of Bavaria]]<ref name="BLKO-Margaretha"/>
| 8 = 8. [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor]]<ref name="CathEncy-Philip II">{{CathEncy |wstitle=Philip II |volume=12|first=Godefroid |last=Kurth}}</ref>
| 9 = 9. [[Isabella of Portugal]]<ref name="CathEncy-Philip II"/>
| 10 = 10. [[Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor]]<ref name="BLKO-Anna">{{BLKO |wstitle=Habsburg, Anna von Oesterreich (Königin von Spanien) |volume=6 |page=151}}</ref>
| 11 = 11. [[Maria of Austria, Holy Roman Empress|Maria of Austria]]<ref name="BLKO-Anna"/>
| 12 = 12. [[Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor]]<ref name="BLKO-Karl II">{{BLKO |wstitle=Habsburg, Karl II. von Steiermark |volume=6 |page=352}}</ref>
| 13 = 13. [[Anne of Bohemia and Hungary]]<ref name="BLKO-Karl II"/>
| 14 = 14. [[Albert V, Duke of Bavaria]]<ref name="BLKO-Maria von Bayern">{{BLKO |wstitle=Habsburg, Maria von Bayern |volume=7 |page=20}}</ref>
| 15 = 15. [[Archduchess Anna of Austria|Anna of Austria]]<ref name="BLKO-Maria von Bayern"/>
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==Male-line family tree==
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==References==
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