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Frederick II of Prussia (who became Maria Theresa's greatest rival for most of her reign) promptly invaded and took the affluent Habsburg province of Silesia in the eight-year conflict known as the War of the Austrian Succession.
9 de mai. de 2024 · Maria Theresa, archduchess of Austria and queen of Hungary and Bohemia (1740–80), wife and empress of the Holy Roman emperor Francis I, and mother of the Holy Roman emperor Joseph II. Upon her accession, the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–48) erupted, challenging her inheritance of the Habsburg lands.
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2 de abr. de 2014 · Royalty. Emperors. Maria Theresa was an Austrian archduchess and Holy Roman Empress of the Habsburg Dynasty from 1740 to 1780. She was also Marie Antoinette’s mother. Updated: Oct 27, 2021. Photo:...
History of Austria - From the accession of Maria Theresa to the Congress of Vienna: In October 1740 the Holy Roman emperor Charles VI, the last male Habsburg ruler, died and was succeeded by his daughter Maria Theresa, the young wife of the grand duke of Tuscany, Francis Stephen of Lorraine.
The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, concluded in October 1748, brought international recognition of Maria Theresa as ruler over the Monarchy and ended the conflict over the Austrian Succession. The result from the point of view of the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty was that Maria Theresa had successfully defended the majority of her claims, with the ...
She was the eldest daughter of Emperor Charles VI, who promulgated the Pragmatic Sanction to allow her to succeed to the Habsburg domains. Opposition to her succession led in 1740 to the War of the Austrian Succession. After Emperor Charles VII died (1745), she obtained the imperial crown for her husband, who became Francis I.
The War of the Bavarian Succession was the last war for both Frederick and Maria Theresa, whose reigns began and ended with wars against one another. Although they deployed armies three to four times the size of the armies of the Seven Years' War, [55] neither monarch used the entirety of the military force each had at their disposal ...
