Le statut des Anglais dans l'Espagne de Philippe IV (1621-1665) ou la construction d'une nation par la monarchie catholique

Abstract

The status of the Stuarts' subjects in the Iberian Peninsula raised the problem of the presence of protestants at the very heart of the catholic kingdom. Philippe IV's foreign policy, which relied on the reason of state, induced the monarch to revisit the links between faith and authority, as he wanted to transform the English community of his kingdoms into a nation, in the Old Regime sense. The Habsburgs' migration policies finally involved the gradual integration of English merchants into the Spanish judicial system and to a de facto religious toleration, which would still remain limited to the family circle.