Isabella Clara Eugenia [SEP] father
daughter of Philip II of Spain and his third wife Elisabeth of Valois.
Her father, Philip II, was reportedly overjoyed at her birth and declared himself to be happier on the occasion than he would have been at the birth of a son. Philip already had a male heir, Carlos, Prince of Asturias, the child of his first marriage to Maria Manuela, Princess of Portugal; however, father and son had never developed a close rapport and frequently lived in conflict with one another.
Isabella's mother had
Isabella Clara Eugenia's mother had ceded any claim to the French crown with her marriage to Philip II. However the "Parlement de Paris", in power of the Catholic party, gave verdict that Isabella Clara Eugenia was "the legitimate sovereign" of France. The Huguenot leader, Henry III of Navarre, the rightful King of France by traditional French inheritance laws, ultimately made good his claim to the throne, converted to Catholicism and was crowned in 1594.
Her father decided to cede the Spanish Netherlands to her