* 1632 – Maria Leopoldine of Austria, Holy Roman Empire Empress ( d. 1649 )

During this time, Alexios was rumored to be the lover of Empress Maria of Alania, the daughter of King Bagrat IV of Georgia, who had been successively married to Michael VII Doukas and his successor Nikephoros III Botaneiates, renowned for her beauty.

While residing here he captivated and seduced the beautiful daughter of the prince, Philippa, sister of the Empress Maria.

In 1180 the Emperor Manuel died and was succeeded by his ten year old son Alexios II, who was under the guardianship of his mother, Empress Maria.

Soon afterwards he had the Empress Maria imprisoned and then killed ( forcing a signature from the child Emperor Alexius to put his mother to death ), by Pterygeonites and the hetaireiarches Constantine Tripsychos.

In 1772, Empress Maria Theresa commented on her preference of Italian composers over Germans like Gassmann, Salieri or Gluck.

Empress Maria Theresa of Austria was supported by the Croatians in the War of Austrian Succession of 1741 – 1748 and subsequently made significant contributions to Croatian matters.

* 1787 – Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este, Empress of Austria and queen of Hungary and Bohemia ( d. 1816 )

Christian pendant of Empress Maria ( empress ) | Maria, daughter of Stilicho, and wife of Honorius.

# On 15 September 1790, to his double first cousin Maria Teresa of the Two Sicilies ( 6 June 1772 – 13 April 1807 ), daughter of King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies ( both were grandchildren of Empress Maria Theresa and shared all of their other grandparents in common ), with whom he had twelve children, of whom only seven reached adulthood.

* 1797 – Maria Leopoldina of Austria, Empress of Brazil ( d. 1826 )

* 1717 – Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress ( d. 1780 )

Maria Feodorovna ( 26 November 1847 – 13 October 1928 ), born Princess Dagmar of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, later styled Princess Dagmar of Denmark, was Empress consort of Russia as spouse of Emperor Alexander III.

Empress Maria with her son, future Nicholas IIThe family of Alexander III being blessed by Jesus Christ in a portrait by Makarov. On the morning of 13 March 1881, Alexander II, aged sixty-two, was killed by a bomb on the way back to the Winter Palace from a military parade.

Empress Maria Fyodorovna and her husband Alexander III of Russia | Emperor Alexander III vacationing in Copenhagen in 1893

Emperor Nicholas II and his mother Dowager Empress Maria Fyodorovna in 1896.

Empress Maria Feodorovna, the mistress of Langinkoski retreat, was also otherwise a known friend of Finland.

Despite the overthrow of the monarchy in 1917, the former Dowager Empress Maria at first refused to leave Russia.

This was not surprising as Maria was merely a deposed Dowager Empress while her older sister was a popular Dowager Queen.

For them, Maria still remained the Empress.

* 1745 – Maria Louisa of Spain, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire ( d. 1792 )

Portrait of Empress Maria Feodorovna ( Dagmar of Denmark ) | Maria Fiodorovna in a Head-Dress Decorated with Pearls by Ivan Kramskoi ( 1880s ) Saint Petersburg, Hermitage Museum

* Maria Theresa, Austrian Empress

* November 29 – Empress Maria Theresa of Austria ( b. 1717 )

Empress Maria Theresa of Austria was responsible for the significant renovations carried out in Milan during the 18th century.

Milan also hosts three important botanical gardens: the Milan University Experimental Botanical Garden ( a small botanical garden operated by the Istituto di Scienze Botaniche ), the Brera Botanical Garden ( another botanical garden, founded in 1774 by Fulgenzio Witman, an abbot under the orders of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, and restored in 1998 after several years of abandonment ) and the Cascina Rosa Botanical Garden.

The Queen of the Night represents a dangerous form of obscurantism or, according to some, the anti-Masonic Empress Maria Theresa.

A second plan was accepted in 1776 by Empress Maria Theresa.

Despite token criticism of the partition from Austrian Empress Maria Theresa, Austrian statesman Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz was proud of wresting as large a share as he did, with the rich salt mines of Bochnia and Wieliczka.

She was the fifteenth and penultimate child of Holy Roman Emperor Francis I and Empress Maria Theresa.

Later that year, Empress Maria Theresa began to fall ill with dropsy and an unnamed respiratory problem.

Rudolph I's last agnatic descendant was Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress ( 1717 – 1780 ), by Albert I of Germany's fourth son Albert II, Duke of Austria.

The portraits of the imperial family show that Maria Theresa resembled Empress Elisabeth Christine and Archduchess Maria Anna.

She dismissed the possibility that other countries might try to seize her territories and immediately started ensuring the imperial dignity for herself ; since a woman could not be elected Holy Roman Empress, Maria Theresa wanted to secure the imperial office for her husband.

On 16 May 1770, at the age of fifteen, Louis-Auguste married the fourteen-year-old Habsburg Archduchess Maria Antonia ( better known by the French form of her name, Marie Antoinette ), his second cousin once removed and the youngest daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Francis I and his wife, the formidable Empress Maria Theresa.

The pass however was not more than a trackway for mule trains and carts until a carriage road was laid out in 1777 at the behest of Empress Maria Theresa.

His only daughter, Maria Beatrice d ' Este, married Ferdinand I, Archduke of Austria-Este, son of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria ; and in 1814 their eldest son, Francis IV, received back the estates of the Este.

Marie Louise was a great granddaughter of Empress Maria Theresa through her father, and thus a great niece of Marie Antoinette.

It was commissioned by the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria and dedicated to her fourth son, the Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, who at that time resided in Milan, as governor of Lombardy.

The Empress Maria Theresa, built the Royal Villa of Monza for his son Ferdinand, Governor of Milan ( 1777 – 1780 ).

With the consent of Emperor Maximilian II, the Promnitz dynasty and their Schaffgotsch successors ruled the Duchy of Bielsko as a Bohemian state country ; acquired by the Austrian chancellor Count Friedrich Wilhelm von Haugwitz in 1752, the ducal status was finally confirmed by Empress Maria Theresa in 1754.

* Marie Antoinette ( 1755 – 1793 ), queen consort of France and Navarre, daughter of Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa, and the wife of King Louis XVI