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May 18, 2018 · Maria Theresa (1717–80) Archduchess of Austria, ruler (1740–80) of the Austrian Habsburg Empire. She succeeded her father, Emperor Charles VI, but neighbouring powers challenged her in the War of the Austrian Succession (1741–48). She lost Silesia to Prussia but secured the imperial title for her husband, Francis I.
As Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, Archduchess of Austria, etc., ruler of the Habsburg Monarchy (1740–1780) Born in Vienna on 13 May 1717. Died in Vienna on 29 November 1780. Motto: ‘Iustitia et Clementia – By justice and clemency’. Maria Theresa was the most important ruler of the age of Enlightened Absolutism and one of the most famous ...
Maria Theresa of Austria ( Maria Theresia Josepha Charlotte Johanna; 14 January 1767 – 7 November 1827) was born an Archduchess of Austria and a Princess of Tuscany. She was later Queen of Saxony as the second wife and consort of King Anthony of Saxony .
Maria Theresa - Empress, Austria, Reforms: Although Maria Theresa pedantically supervised her children’s upbringing and education, she was to experience many disappointments in connection with them. Of her sons, only Leopold of Tuscany (later Emperor Leopold II), though difficult as a child, lived up to her hopes. Her special affection belonged to Maria Christina, who was allowed to marry ...
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 ...
Maria Theresa was the elder daughter of Emperor Charles VI and Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. However, she was not brought up as a future ruler, since the couple kept on hoping for a long time that they might still have a son. Maria Theresa received the upbringing and education typical of a daughter of dynastic lineage ...
Maria Theresa’s reforms were enduring in their effect. The legal and administrative reforms are regarded as modern because they created the foundation for an authoritarian administrative state. This highly supervisory machine systematically nipped all manifestations of personal responsibility and democratic thinking in the bud.
