* 1713 – With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria Theresa of Austria ( not actually born until 1717 ).

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

Maria Theresa of Austria ( 1767 – 1827 ) | Maria Theresa of Austria.

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.

The extinction of the Medici dynasty and the accession in 1737 of Francis Stephen, duke of Lorraine and husband of Maria Theresa of Austria, led to Tuscany's temporary inclusion in the territories of the Austrian crown.

# 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.

In the War of Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 1748 ) Maria Theresa fought successfully for recognition of her succession to the throne.

The Austrian branch went extinct in the male person in 1740 with the death of Charles VI and in the female person in 1780 with the death of his daughter Maria Theresa and was succeeded by the Vaudemont branch of the House of Lorraine in the person of her son Joseph II.

All kings elected from 1438 onwards were from among the Habsburg Archdukes of Austria ( and later Kings of Hungary and Bohemia ) until 1740, when the archduchy was inherited by a woman, Maria Theresa.

* 1741 – Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Hungary.

Luxembourg was invaded by Louis XIV of France ( husband of Maria Theresa, daughter of Philip IV ) in 1684, an action that caused alarm among France's neighbours and resulted in the formation of the League of Augsburg in 1686.

* 1743 – Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Bohemia after defeating her rival, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor.

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

* 1801 – Maria Theresa of Austria, Queen of Sardinia ( d. 1855 )

* 1740 – Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria.

* Maria Theresa Reef

The political, administrative and economic reforms of the Habsburg rulers Maria Theresa of Austria and Joseph II improved the economic situation of the peasantry, and were well received by the emerging bourgeoisie, which was however still weak.

* 1638 – Maria Theresa of Spain ( d. 1683 )

While he cared little for who should become King of Poland, the cause of protecting the King's father-in-law was a sympathetic one, and he hoped to use the war as a means of humbling the Austrians, and perhaps securing the long-desired Duchy of Lorraine from its duke, Francis Stephen, who was expected to marry Emperor Charles's daughter Maria Theresa, which would bring Austrian power dangerously close to the French border.

To the Austrian emperor he promised recognition of the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713, a document designed to guarantee inheritance of the Austrian throne to Maria Theresa, Charles ' oldest child.

The French ( and their allies ), hoping for détente and good relations with the Austrians, now also recognized the Pragmatic Sanction that would allow Emperor Charles's daughter Maria Theresa to succeed him.

# Theresia Maria Josepha Magdalena Anna Antonia Walburga Ignatia Xaveria Augustina Aloysia Fortunata ( 27 February 1761-26 November 1820 ) died unmarried.

His father, Alexander Johannes, came from a long line of foresters, and married Gluck's mother, Maria Walburga, in about 1711.

* Maria Amalia Christina Franziska Xaveria Flora Walburga ( b. Dresden, 24 November 1724-d. Buen Retiro, 27 September 1760 ); married on 19 June 1738 to Charles VII, King of Naples, later King Charles III of Spain.

* Maria Antonia Aloysia Walburga Mechthildis ( Vienna, 14 March 1756-Vienna, 1 December 1821 ), a Nun

* Anna Maria Walburga Pertl ( 1720 – 1778 ), mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia Mozart ( 30 July 1751 – 29 October 1829 ), nicknamed " Nannerl ", was a musician, the older sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and daughter of Leopold and Anna Maria Mozart.

Anna Maria Walburga Mozart ( née Pertl ) ( December 25, 1720 – July 3, 1778 ) was the mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Maria Anna Mozart.

* Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia ( 30 July 1751 – 29 October 1829 )

# Maria Josepha Amalia Beatrix Xaveria Vincentia Aloysia Franziska de Paula Franziska de Chantal Anna Apollonia Johanna Nepomucena Walburga Theresia Ambrosia ( b. Dresden, 6 December 1803-d. Aranjuez, 17 May 1829 ), known as Maria Josepha Amalia ; married on 20 October 1819 to King Ferdinand VII of Spain.

# Maria Johanna Ludovica Anna Amalia Nepomucena Aloysia Ignatia Xaveria Josepha Franziska de Chantal Eva Apollonia Magdalena Crescentia Vincentia ( b. Dresden, 5 April 1798-d. Dresden, 30 October 1799 ).

* 1724 – Maria Amalia of Saxony, queen of Spain ( d. 1760 )

Heydrich was born in 1904 in Halle an der Saale to composer and opera singer Richard Bruno Heydrich and his wife Elisabeth Anna Maria Amalia Krantz, a Roman Catholic.

* Maria Amalia of Courland ( 1653-1711 ), noblewoman, participated in the creation of the Karlsaue Park.

Maria Theresa and her husband, Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, had sixteen children, including Queen Marie Antoinette of France, Queen Maria Carolina of Naples, Duchess Maria Amalia of Parma and two Holy Roman Emperors, Joseph II and Leopold II.

Most descriptions of her baptism stress that the infant was carried ahead of her cousins, Archduchesses Maria Josepha and Maria Amalia, the daughters of Charles VI's elder brother and predecessor, Joseph I, before the eyes of Joseph's widow, Empress Wilhelmine Amalia.

Little more than a year after her birth, Maria Theresa was joined by a sister, Archduchess Maria Anna, and another one, named Maria Amalia, was born in 1724.

# Maria Amalia of Saxony ( 26 September 1757-20 April 1831 ) married Karl II August of Zweibrücken and had issue.

Already in 1722 Charles Albert had been married to the Habsburg princess Maria Amalia of Austria.

In 1809, Louis Philippe married Princess Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, daughter of King Ferdinand IV of Naples and Maria Carolina of Austria.

He was the son of Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, and Princess Maria Amalia of Courland.

After Archduchess Isabella's death on 27 November 1763, a political marriage was arranged with Maria Josepha of Bavaria ( d. 1767 ), a daughter of Charles Albert, Elector of Bavaria ( the former emperor Charles VII ) and Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria.

This settlement was the condition of his marriage on 5 August 1764 with Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain, daughter of Charles III of Spain and Maria Amalia of Saxony.

Charles was the second son of Charles III and his wife Maria Amalia of Saxony.