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Not only was Maria Theresa highly active in politics, but her daughters were also entrusted with political tasks, albeit usually – in accordance with the motto Tu felix Austria nube (‘Thou, happy Austria, marry’) – as pawns on the dynastic marriage market. Most of the daughters were married off without their consent, but one was lucky enough to be able to choose her husband
In 1750 in a handwritten document Maria Theresa defined the core lands of the Monarchy, which consisted of the Austrian Lands (Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, the various territories on the Upper Adriatic as well as Tyrol and the Habsburg Swabian territories) and the Bohemian Lands (Bohemia, Moravia and the parts of Silesia that remained under Austrian rule).
Maria Theresa of Austria was the only female sovereign of the Habsburg Dynasty. She reigned as the de facto Empress Regnant of the Holy Roman Empire and Queen of Germany.
Maria Theresa: Empress and mother of her peoples. Maria Theresa’s reign is commonly seen as a golden age of the Habsburg monarchy. However, many of the present-day images of the Empress are based on clichés. In 1740, the provisions of the Pragmatic Sanction enabled Charles VI’s 23-year-old daughter Maria Theresa to take on her father’s ...
Maria Theresa did not live to see the death by guillotine of her youngest daughter Maria Antonia - wife of the French King Louis XVI and known in France as Marie Antoinette. After 40 years on the throne, Maria Theresa of Austria died on November 29, 1780, and was buried in a double sarcophagus in the Capuchin Crypt next to Francis Stephen.
Writing her biography, I wanted to question that myth. 2. Maria Theresa was the icon of the Austrian state (or rather of several different states) of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her image has been shaped by two impressive memorials: one is the gigantic bronze monument on Vienna's Ringstraße, erected in 1888.
Reigned Oct. 20, 1740, to Nov. 29, 1780; Empress, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, Archduchess of Austria; b. Vienna, May 13, 1717; d. Vienna. She was married. (1736) to Duke Francis Stephen of Lorraine-Tuscany (later Emperor Francis I 1745 – 65). The sudden death of her father, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, forced the inexperienced heiress ...
