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Maria Theresa of Spain (Spanish: María Teresa de Austria; French: Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche; 10 September 1638 – 30 July 1683) was Queen of France from 1660 to 1683 as the wife of King Louis XIV.
Dec 5, 2018 · Maria Theresa of Spain was an infanta (meaning ‘princess’) of the Spanish Empire who lived during the 17 th century. She belonged to the Spanish branch of the House of Habsburg, and is best-known for being the Queen of France as a result of her marriage to the French king, Louis XIV.
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Maria Theresa was the daughter of King Philip IV of Spain and Elisabeth de France, and the wife of Louis XIV. She accompanied the King on his official visits, but had no political ambitions and died in 1683.
Aug 30, 2018 · Learn about the life and marriage of Maria Theresa, the Spanish Infanta who became Queen of France in 1660. Discover how she coped with Louis XIV's infidelity, gave birth to a son, and died young.
Maria Theresa (born May 13, 1717, Vienna—died November 29, 1780, Vienna) was the archduchess of Austria and queen of Hungary and Bohemia (1740–80), wife and empress of the Holy Roman emperor Francis I (reigned 1745–65), and mother of the Holy Roman emperor Joseph II (reigned 1765–90).
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- Maria Theresa’s father was the Holy Roman emperor Charles VI, and her mother was Elizabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. Charles was the last survivin...
- From the day she was born, Maria Theresa was one of the most important people in 18th-century Europe. Although she could not reign as Holy Roman em...
- Within months of Charles VI’s death, Frederick II of Prussia invaded Silesia, a Habsburg province, beginning the War of the Austrian Succession. Ma...
- Maria Theresa is interred next to her husband in an ornate double sarcophagus beneath Vienna’s Capuchin monastery. The crypt that houses the sarcop...
The year before the royal marriage between Louis XIV, king of France, and Maria Teresa of Spain in 1659, the 21-year-old Maria signed the Treaty of the Pyrenees, renouncing any claim to Spanish succession.
Maria Theresa (Maria Theresia Walburga Amalia Christina; 13 May 1717 – 29 November 1780) was ruler of the Habsburg dominions from 1740 until her death in 1780, and the only woman to hold the position suo jure (in her own right).
