What is Spanish Empire?
{{more footnotes}} {{Infobox Former Country <!-- Name-->| native_name = Imperio Español | conventional_long_name = Spanish Empire | common_name = Spanish Empire | image_flag = Flag of Cross of Burgundy.svg | flag = Cross of Burgundy Flag<br/> File:Flag of Spain (1785–1873, 1875–1931).svg | flag_type = <small>Cross of Burgundy Flag</small> | image_flag2 = Cross Burgundy Lesser.PNG | image_coat = | image_map = Spanish Empire Anachronous en.svg | image_map_caption = | status = State union | empire = Catholic Empire | status_text = <!-- Preceding and succeeding entities --> | p1 = Catholic Monarchs | flag_p1 = Pendon de los Reyes Catolicos.png | s1 = Mid-nineteenth_century_Spain | flag_s1 = Flag of Spain.svg | year_start = 1492 | year_end = 1899 | event_start = [[Invasion of the Americas]] | event_end = Loss of Puerto Rico | event1 = Conquest of the [[Aztec|Aztec Empire]] | date_event1 = 1519-1521 | event2 = Conquest of the [[Inca Empire]] | date_event2 = 1532–1537 | government_type = Monarchy | title_leader = [[List of monarchs of Spain|Monarch]] | leader1 = [[Charles I of Spain|Charles I]] | year_leader1 = 1516-1556 | leader2 = [[Maria Christina of Austria|Maria Christina of Austria, Regent during the minority of king Alphonse XIII]] | year_leader2 = 1886-1902 | title_deputy = | deputy1 = | year_deputy1 = | deputy2 = | year_deputy2 = | legislature = | house1 = [[House of Habsburg]] | house2 = [[House of Bourbon]] | capital = [[Toledo, Spain|Toledo]] (1492-1561) [[Madrid]] (from 1561) | national_motto