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María Teresa Rafaela of Spain. Marie Thérèse Antoinette Raphaëlle, Dauphine of France (11 June 1726 – 22 July 1746), was the daughter of King Philip V of Spain and Elisabeth Farnese and the wife of Louis, Dauphin of France, son of King Louis XV. The Dauphine died aged 20, three days after giving birth to a daughter who died in 1748.
Daughter of King Philip IV of Spain and Elisabeth de France, Maria Theresa was born in 1638 at the Escurial Palace near Madrid. In 1660, in the wake of the Treaty of the Pyrenees, she married Louis XIV in Saint-Jean-de-Luz. The wedding sealed the reconciliation between France and Spain. Described by contemporary authors as timid and reserved, the Queen accompanied the King on all of his ...
Jul 30, 2015 · Maria Theresa was born in September 1638 the daughter of King Philip IV of Spain and his wife Elisabeth of France. France and Spain had been closely connected by marriage in the previous generation, her parents were the siblings of the King and Queen of France, as King Philip's sister Anne had married Queen Elisabeth's brother Louis. Like many such marriages between France and Spain, the ...
Marie-Therese of Austria, queen consort of King Louis XIV of France. As the daughter of King Philip IV of Spain and Elizabeth of France, Marie-Therese was betrothed to Louis by the Peace of the Pyrenees (1659), which ended a 24-year war between France and Spain.
Maria Theresa of Spain was an ‘infanta’ of Spain and Portugal by birth and Queen of France by marriage. She was also the Archduchess of Austria as she belonged to the House of Habsburg, one of the most influential royal houses of Europe. A very pious and warm-hearted lady, Maria Theresa married her cousin King Louis XIV of France.
In 1660, King Louis XIV of France was wedded to the Infanta Maria Theresa of Spain. The title infanta was given to the children of the king in Spain and Portugal. While the marriage itself was not a particularly happy one – King Louis had numerous public love affairs – the story of the wedding has gone down in history as being somewhat ...
The two main candidates were the Austrian Habsburg Archduke Charles, and 16-year-old Philip of Anjou, grandson of Maria Theresa of Spain and Louis XIV of France. Acquisition of the Spanish Empire by either potentially threatened to alter the European balance of power in favour of France or Austria. Shortly before his death in November 1700, Charles named Philip his heir, but failure to resolve ...
