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Below is the article summary. For the full article, see Maria Theresa . Maria Theresa , German Maria Theresia, (born May 13, 1717, Vienna, Austria—died Nov. 29, 1780, Vienna), Archduchess of Austria and queen of Hungary and Bohemia (1740–80). She was the eldest daughter of Emperor Charles VI, who promulgated the Pragmatic Sanction to allow ...
Maria Theresa’s legacy extends beyond her political achievements. She was the only woman to hold the position of ruler suo jure (in her own right). Her reign encompassed Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, and other territories. Through marriage, she became Duchess of Lorraine, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, and Holy Roman Empress.
Wife andmother. On February 12, 1736, Francis Stephen married Maria Theresa in the church of St Augustine in Vienna. They became 16 children, two died in infancy and four in childhood. All the children had a happy childhood at a lively baroque court in Vienna. However, their education was dominated by a strict daily routine with their own tutors.
Archduchess of Austria. Maria Theresa (1717-1780), archduchess of Austria, Holy Roman Empress, and queen of Hungary and Bohemia, began her rule in 1740. She was the only woman ruler in the 650 history of the Habsburg dynasty. She was also one of the most successful Habsburg rulers, male or female, while bearing sixteen children between 1738 and ...
Today, Maria Theresa’s enlightened absolutism meets with almost unlimited sympathy. However, the image of a mother-figure devoted to the common weal should be balanced with the awareness that her thought and work were very conservative and by no means progressive. Like her predecessors and successors, she regarded herself as holding power by divine right, considered the
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 ...
