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Charles VI ( German: Karl; Latin: Carolus; 1 October 1685 – 20 October 1740) was Holy Roman Emperor and ruler of the Austrian Habsburg monarchy from 1711 until his death, succeeding his elder brother, Joseph I. He unsuccessfully claimed the throne of Spain following the death of his relative, Charles II. In 1708, he married Elisabeth ...
Charles VI (born Oct. 1, 1685, Vienna, Austria—died Oct. 20, 1740, Vienna) was the Holy Roman emperor from 1711 and, as Charles III, archduke of Austria and king of Hungary. As pretender to the throne of Spain (as Charles III), he attempted unsuccessfully to reestablish the global empire of his 16th-century ancestor Charles V.
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Charles VI was Holy Roman Emperor and ruler of the Austrian Habsburg monarchy from 1711 until his death, succeeding his elder brother, Joseph I. He unsuccessfully claimed the throne of Spain following the death of his relative, Charles II. In 1708, he married Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, by whom he had his four children: Leopold Johann, Maria Theresa, Maria Anna, and Maria ...
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May 14, 2018 · Charles VI. Charles VI (1685–1740) Holy Roman Emperor (1711–40) and King of Hungary as Charles III. His claim to the Spanish throne against the grandson of Louis XIV, Philip V, supported by the powers opposed to Louis, caused the War of the Spanish Succession. After his election as Emperor (1711), he gave up his Spanish claim as ...
Pragmatic Sanction of Emperor Charles VI, (April 19, 1713), decree promulgated by the Holy Roman emperor Charles VI with the intent that all his Habsburg kingdoms and lands descend as an integral whole without partition. It stipulated that his undivided heritage go to his eldest son, should he have
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Charles VI. From 1703 to 1713/14 king of Spain as Charles III, (anti-king to Philip V of Anjou-Bourbon); as Charles VI emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and ruler of the Habsburg Monarchy from 1711 to his death in 1740. Motto: ‘Constanter continet orbem – Steadfast, he holds the empire together’. Charles was installed as heir to the ...
May 21, 2018 · CHARLES VI (HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE) (1685 – 1740; ruled 1711 – 1740), Holy Roman emperor and ruler of the Habsburg Monarchy. Charles VI's greatest claim to historical fame is his role as father to Maria Theresa (ruled 1740 – 1780), one of the great rulers of the eighteenth century. Historians often point to the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713, a ...
