1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Devolution, War of

DEVOLUTION, WAR OF (1667–68), the name applied to the war which arose out of Louis XIV.’s claims to certain Spanish territories in right of his wife Maria Theresa, upon whom the ownership was alleged to have “devolved.” (See, for the military operations, Dutch Wars.) The war was ended by the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1668.