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How was Philip V of Spain related to Louis XIV of France?
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Philip V of Spain was the grandson of Louis XIV of France.1
Philip was the son of the dauphin Louis, who was himself the son of Louis XIV. When the last Habsburg king of Spain, Charles II, died without an heir in 1700, he bequeathed his possessions to Philip, then known as the duc dâAnjou. Louis XIV subsequently acknowledged his grandson as the rightful king of Spain, an act that helped trigger the War of the Spanish Succession.12