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* 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 ).
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.
* 1743 – Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Bohemia after defeating her rival, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor.
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 heir general to Charles II was Louis, Le Grand Dauphin, the son of his elder half-sister, Maria Theresa, and Louis XIV of France.
The second but eldest surviving child of Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI and Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Archduchess Maria Theresa was born early in the morning of 13 May 1717, at the Hofburg Palace, Vienna, shortly after the death of her elder brother, Archduke Leopold, and was baptised on that same evening.
Thus, the birth of Maria Theresa was a great disappointment to him and the people of Vienna ; Charles never managed to overcome this feeling.
Maria Theresa replaced Maria Josepha as heiress presumptive to the Habsburg realms the moment she was born ; Charles VI had issued the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 which had placed his nieces behind his own daughters in the line of succession.
The war began under the pretext that Maria Theresa was ineligible to succeed to the Habsburg thrones of her father, Charles VI, because Salic law precluded royal inheritance by a woman — though in reality this was a convenient excuse put forward by Prussia and France to challenge Habsburg power.
In 1740, after the death of her father, Charles VI, Maria Theresa succeeded him as Queen of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia, Archduchess of Austria and Duchess of Parma.
Maria Theresa, as a woman, was perceived as weak, and other rulers ( such as Charles Albert of Bavaria ) put forward their own competing claims to the crown as male heirs with a clear genealogical basis to inherit the elected dignities of the great Imperial title.
The duke's expected marriage to Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI's daughter, Maria Theresa, would bring Austrian power dangerously close to the French border.
In 1740, the death of Emperor Charles VI and his succession by his daughter Maria Theresa started the European War of the Austrian Succession.
His will named the 16-year old Philip, grandson of Charles ' half-sister Maria Theresa of Spain, the first wife of Louis XIV, as his successor.
Charles Emmanuel was involved in the War of the Austrian Succession, in which he sided with Maria Theresa of Austria, with financial and naval support from England.
In 1817, Charles Albert married his second cousin once removed, Maria Theresa of Austria, the youngest daughter of Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Princess Luisa of Naples and Sicily.
Victor Emanuel was born the eldest son of Charles Albert, Prince of Carignano and Maria Theresa of Austria.
He was born in London and grew up in Thursley, Surrey, the son of Charles Henry Augustus Lutyens and Mary Theresa Gallwey.
She proposed to Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, that the Infante Charles marry the 8 year old Archduchess Maria Theresa and that her second surviving son, the Infante Philip, marry the 7 year old Archduchess Maria Anna.
The alliance of Spain and Austria was signed on 30 April 1725, and included Spanish support for the Pragmatic Sanction, a document drafted by Emperor Charles in 1713 to assure support for Maria Theresa in the succession to the throne of the Habsburgs.
Four years before the birth of Maria Theresa, due to his lack of male heirs, Charles provided for a male-line succession failure with the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713.
Charles died in 1740, sparking the War of the Austrian Succession, which plagued his successor, Maria Theresa, for eight years.
The two daughters of Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria were Zita ’ s first cousins and Charles ’ half-aunts.
He had named as his successor a grand-nephew, Philip, Duke of Anjou ( a grandson of the reigning French king Louis XIV, and of Charles ' half-sister, Maria Theresa of Spain — Louis XIV himself was an heir to the Spanish throne through his mother, daughter of Philip III of Spain ).

Theresa and have
Marvelous, thought Theresa, climbing in her portly, well-bred way, for she was someone who had learned that if you only move slowly enough you have time to notice everything.
Two days before he was taken sick, Cousin Elec was out worrying about what too much rain might do to his sweetpeas, and Cousin Elec had always preserved in the top drawer of his secretary a mother-of-pearl paper knife which Theresa had coveted as a child and which he had promised she could have when he died.
They all surrounded him, the family circle, Theresa and George as solemn as if they were watching the cat have kittens, and Cousin Emma running back and forth with a kettle of hot water which she poured steaming into a white enamelled pan.
I really shouldn't have smoked a cigarette so early in the day, thought Theresa, it always makes me sick.
They have three children: Constanze ( 1971 ), Veronica ( 1977 ), Dominic ( 1980 ) and five grandchildren: Johannes ( 1999 ), Benedikt ( 2001 ), Theresa Marie ( 2005 ), Ferdinand ( 2009 ) and another grandson ( 2011 ).
UK Home Secretary Theresa May said the government did not believe the plotters would have known the location of the device when it was planned to explode.
Although she is considered to have been intellectually inferior to both Joseph and Leopold, Maria Theresa understood the importance of her public persona and was able to simultaneously evoke both esteem and affection from her subjects.
At the age of 12, Theresa returned to Toledo and ceased touring in order to have a normal school life.
All three children are shown to have inherited the intelligence of John Paul and his wife Theresa, though there are hints throughout the Shadow series that they may have also been genetically enhanced.
After the ascension of Maria Theresa of Austria to the Kingdom of Bohemia ( Czech ) and Kingdom of Hungary, Frederick II saw an opportunity to quickly invade and annex the province of Silesia ( then part of the Czech Crown ), which would have added much needed land and population to his kingdom.
As a Third, a child born third to the family, Ender faced discrimination, but it is revealed that Theresa and John Paul intended to have a third child regardless of the International Fleet restrictions.
In the Roman Catholicism the same concepts have been treated under different names ( Via purgativa, via iluminativa and via unitiva ) by St. John of the Cross and St. Theresa of Avila.
In his portrait sculptures the likenesses were said to have been remarkably successful ; he produced portrait busts of most of the celebrated men of his age, including Louis XIV and Louis XV at Versailles, Colbert ( the kneeling figure of his tomb at Saint-Eustache ), Cardinal Mazarin ( in the church of the Collège des Quatre-Nations ), the Grand Condé ( in the Louvre ), Maria Theresa of Austria, Turenne, Vauban, Cardinals de Bouillon and de Polignac, the duc de Chaulnes ( National Gallery of Art, Washington ); Fénelon, Racine, André Le Nôtre ( church of St-Roch ); Bossuet ( in the Louvre ), the comte d ' Harcourt, William Egon Cardinal Fürstenberg as well as Charles Le Brun ( in the Louvre ).
Meanwhile, with the wedding fast approaching, Laura's grasp on reality began slipping as more and more flashbacks appeared to indicate that Rick might have killed Theresa.
While the Military Order of Maria Theresa ( 1757 ) was open to any deserving military officer regardless of social origin, and would grant titles of nobility to those who did not already have them, the Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary ( 1764 ) still required that one had to have at least four generations of noble ancestors.
When Maria Theresa of Austria became the queen of the Kingdom of Hungary in 1740, she promised to the nobles of the kingdom that she would have a residence both in Austria and in the Kingdom of Hungary – that is in Pressburg Castle.
The Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, have worked at St. Theresa School since coming to Hawaii in 1946.
Since 11 May 2010 these posts have been held by David Cameron, George Osborne, William Hague and Theresa May, respectively.
Eichenwald is married to Dr. Theresa Pearse, an internist They have three children ; Sam, Adam, and Ryan.
Under the previous will, Emily's nephew Charles Arundell and nieces Theresa Arundell and Bella Tanios would have inherited.
She and her African American co-worker / friend Chico ( Theresa Harris ) hop on a freight train out of town, but are discovered by a railroad worker, who threatens to have them thrown in jail.
Theresa is one of the twelve jurors who have to decide about a case of assassination.

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