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Charles VI, 1685–1740, Holy Roman emperor (1711–40), king of Bohemia (1711–40) and, as Charles III, king of Hungary (1712–40); brother and successor of Holy Roman Emperor Joseph I. Charles was the last Holy Roman emperor of the direct Hapsburg line. In 1700 he was designated successor in Spain to King Charles II, who was childless.
Charles VI (1 October 1685 – 20 October 1740; German: Karl VI.) succeeded his elder brother, Joseph I, as Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia (as Charles II), King of Hungary and Croatia (as Charles III), and King of Serbia, Archduke of Austria, etc., in 1711. He unsuccessfully claimed the throne of Spain as Charles III following the death of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, was the penultimate ruler of the Habsburg Monarchy, and King of Bohemia (as Charles II), King of Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, and Archduke of Austria (as Charles III) from 1711 to 1740. After the death of Charles II of Spain in 1700, Charles tried in vain to claim the Spanish throne, which ignited the ‘War of the ...
CHARLES VI OF HAPSBURG ° (1685–1740), king of Hungary as charles iii, and from 1711 Holy Roman Emperor. His attitude to Austrian Jewry was fanatically hostile although he appreciated the financial talents of Diego *D'Aguilar and availed himself of the services of Samson *Wertheimer and Samuel *Oppenheimer. Using the pretext of a *blood libel ...
