Philip III

Spain's National Heritage, the body which handles Spain's royal sites and collections, loaned several pieces, including a suit of armour designed to be worn by a greyhound - a pet of the king, and another worn by Philip III when he was a child.

The nobleman traveled to Spain to request further help from King Philip III, but, nine months later, he was struck down by illness and died, the website explains.

He escaped to Spain, hoping to secure King Philip III’s backing for a renewed assault.

His son Philip III ordered the construction of stone ramparts to completely encircle the town, and today these formidable fortifications are a French national historic monument.

Analysis of a life-size portrait of King Philip III, of Spain, from the workshop of the court painter Juan Pantoja de la Cruz, circa 1605, which was acquired by the Fogg a century ago, revealed traces of cochineal carmine and quite possibly Mummy Brown, much darkened and deteriorated—the palette thus encompassing an empire of pigments from Egypt to Oaxaca.