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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 ...
- 12 October 1711 – 20 October 1740
- Eleonore Magdalene of Neuburg
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 is regarded as the ‘last Baroque emperor’ and ‘old-school Habsburg’. Born in Vienna on 1 October 1685, the second son of Emperor Leopold I and his third wife, Eleonore Magdalena of Palatinate-Neuburg, Charles was initially overshadowed by his elder brother Joseph. Characterized as shy and diffident, with his prominent chin ...
War of the Austrian Succession, 1740–48. Maria Theresa. In October 1740 the Holy Roman emperor Charles VI, the last male Habsburg ruler, died and was succeeded by his daughter Maria Theresa, the young wife of the grand duke of Tuscany, Francis Stephen of Lorraine. Although no woman had ever served as Habsburg ruler, most assumed at the time ...
During the twenty-nine years of Charles VI’s reign the Habsburg Monarchy achieved its greatest territorial expansion. At his death, however, Charles left a state in crisis. As ruler over this Central European realm Charles was confronted with the generations-old conflict with the Ottoman Empire. Since the defeat of the Turks at the gates of ...
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. Born in Vienna on 1 October 1685. Died in Vienna on 20 October 1740. Motto: ‘Constanter continet orbem – Steadfast, he ...
A son was born to Charles in 1716 but died in the same year, and Charles’s subsequent children were both daughters (Maria Theresa, born in 1717, and Maria Anna, born in 1718). Accordingly, in 1720, the Pragmatic Sanction was published, embodying Charles’s decision of 1713.
