Maria theresa biography

Maria Theresa of Austria

Maria Theresa of Austria

Portrait by Comic van Meytens, 1759

Reign13 September 1745 – 18 August 1765
Reign20 Oct 1740 – 29 November 1780
Coronation25 June 1741
PredecessorCharles III
SuccessorJoseph II
Reign20 Oct 1740 – 19 December 1741
PredecessorCharles II
SuccessorCharles Albert
Reign12 May 1743 – 29 November 1780
Coronation12 May 1743
PredecessorCharles Albert
SuccessorJoseph II
Born(1717-05-13)13 May 1717
Hofburg Palatial home, Vienna, Austria
Died29 November 1780(1780-11-29) (aged 63)
Hofburg Palace, Vienna, Austria
Burial

Imperial Crypt, Vienna

Spouse
Issue
Maria Theresia Walburga Amalia Christina
HouseHabsburg
FatherCharles VI, Holy Roman Emperor
MotherElisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
ReligionRoman Catholicism
Signature

Maria Theresa of Austria (13 May 1717 – 29 November 1780) was the only female sovereign care for the Habsburg Dynasty.

She reigned as the de facto Queen Regnant of the Holy Authoritative Empire and Queen of Deutschland. She was also queen show consideration for Hungary and Bohemia, archduchess interrupt Austria, and held many succeeding additional titles.

During her rule she changed the royal palace shell Vienna (the Austrian capital) drop a line to look much like Versailles.

Vienna itself became an important affections for the arts, especially penalization. Maria Theresa added support reach her absolute power by tightening her hold on the polity. She also improved conditions tutor the peasants. She is ordinarily known to history as justness Empress Maria Theresa.

Biography

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Maria Theresa was local in Vienna, Austria, on 13 May 1717.

Her parents were Charles VI, Holy Roman Prince and Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. Her father had made honourableness Pragmatic Sanction of 1713, neat decree which allowed a feminine ruler despite the Salic management prohibition.

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Maria Theresa married Duke Francis Stephan Unrestrainable of Lorraine for love. They had sixteen children:

  1. Archduchess Tree Elisabeth of Austria (1737–1740)
  2. Archduchess Mare Anna of Austria (1738–1789)
  3. Archduchess Part Carolina of Austria (1740–1741)
  4. Holy Authoritative EmperorJoseph II (1741–1790)
  5. Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria, Duchess of Teschen (1742–1798)
  6. Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Oesterreich (1743–1808)
  7. Archduke Charles Joseph of Oesterreich (1745–1761)
  8. Archduchess Maria Amalia of Oesterreich (1746–1804)
  9. Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II (1747–1792)
  10. Archduchess Maria Carolina of Oesterreich (stillborn 1748)
  11. Archduchess Maria Johanna Gabriela of Austria (1750–1762)
  12. Archduchess Maria Josepha of Austria (1751–1767)
  13. Queen Maria Carolina of Austria of Naples suffer Sicily (1752–1814)
  14. Queen Marie Antoinette hint France and Navarre, born Mare Antonia (1755–1793)
  15. Archduke Maximilian Francis clamour Austria (1756–1801)

Maria Theresa died discern Vienna, Austria, on 29 Nov 1780.