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	Maria Theresa of Austria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Maria Theresa was married to Francis Stephen, Duke of Lorraine.
		Her Imperial and Royal Highness Maria Theresa, Princess Imperial and Archduchess of Austria, Princess Royal of Hungary and Bohemia was the eldest daughter of Charles VI, whose sole male heir - his son Leopold Johann - died as an infant in 1716.
		Maria Theresa, or German Maria Theresia (May 13, 1717 – November 29, 1780) was the first and only female head of the Habsburg dynasty.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maria_Theresa (1409 words)

	MSN Encarta - War of the Austrian Succession
		The war was fought by an alliance of Bavaria, France, Spain, Sardinia, Prussia, and Saxony against Austria, the Netherlands, and Britain, with the three claimants fighting against Maria Theresa.
		Maria Theresa kept most of her lands except Silesia, which was granted to Prussia.
		Before his death, many of the great powers of Europe, including Britain, France, Prussia, Russia, and the Netherlands, had guaranteed that Charles's daughter Maria Theresa would succeed him.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761558212/War_of_the_Austrian_Succession.html (589 words)

	british monarchy - mong62 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Maria Gabriele of Bavaria was born in 1878 and died in 1912.
		Maria Josepha of Portugal was born in 1857 and died in 1943.
		Isabella II Queen of Spain was born in 1830 and died in 1904.
	freepages.history.rootsweb.com /~wakefield/monarchy/mong62.htm (502 words)

	Maria Theresa Thaler
		Maria Theresa Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, Archduchess of Austria, Roman-German Empress, born 1717; died 1780.
		The Maria Theresa Thaler (MTT) coin, which has been used in world trade continuously since the first minted in 1741, has considerably extended the fame of Empress Maria Theresa, who ruled Austria, Hungary, and Bohemia from 1740 to 1780.
		Joseph II German Emperor (reigned 1765-90), of the House of Hapsburg-Lorraine, son and successor of Maria Theresa and Francis I. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08508b.htm
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Maria_Theresa_Thaler.html (548 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Maria Theresa
		Maria Theresa was, however, as convinced of her rights as she was determined to enforce them by action.
		Maria Theresa, however, came forth energetically in support of the authority of the government and by her personal influence carried out the project.
		Maria Theresa was the first to recover her self-possession and to appreciate the problems before her.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09662d.htm (3433 words)

	Maria Theresa
		By 1741, Bavaria, France, Prussia, Saxony, and Spain were all allied against Maria Theresa in the War of the Austrian Succession.
		Maria Theresa was the eldest daughter of Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor.
		In her political reforms, Maria Theresa followed what she thought to be the interests of the monarchy.
	members.aol.com /dkaplan888E/mter.htm (256 words)

	Treaty_of_the_Pyrenees
		The treaty also arranged for a marriage between Louis XIV of France and Maria Theresa of Austria, the daughter of Philip IV of Spain.
		The defeat and inability to pay Maria Theresa's dowry effectively eliminated Spain as an important power in Europe, while France as a result was at the height of its power.
		Maria Theresa was forced to renounce her claim to the Spanish throne, in return for a monetary settlement as part of her dowry.
	www.apawn.com /search.php?title=Treaty_of_the_Pyrenees (332 words)

	Infante Pedro Carlos Of Spain & Maria Theresa
		Infante Pedro Carlos Of Spain and Maria Theresa
	www.mostyn.com /Genealogy/Father/Family/WC18/WC18_461.HTM (8 words)

	EIGHTEENTH GENERATION
		Maria Theresa of SPAIN was born about 1720 in Spain - dtr of Philip V. She died before 1753 in France - wife of Louis the Dauphin.
		He was married to Maria Theresa of SPAIN (daughter of Philip V of BOURBON-SPAIN King and Elizabeth FARNESE) about 1745.
		He was married to Maria Josepha of SAXONY (daughter of Frederick Augustus III of POLAND Elector of Saxony and Maria Josepha of AUSTRIA) about 1753.
	home.att.net /~hamiltonclan/hamilton/gilbert/d7128.htm (166 words)

	Maria Theresa
		Maria Theresa is known to some as the empress who hired police to round up prostitutes for "correction" and conducted a nonstop war on vice and excess.
		Maria Theresa reign was a stabilization and renewal time for the Austrian Hungarian Empire.
		Upon her beginning of the reign, the Empire was confronted by the War of Austrian Succession.
	www.freeglossary.com /Maria_Theresa (174 words)

	Vienna: In Depth : History : Maria Theresa & Political Reform Frommers.com
		Accordingly, Maria Theresa ascended to power in 1740 at the age of 23, and retained her post for 40 years.
		During Maria Theresa's reign, the population of Vienna almost doubled, from 88,000 to 175,000.
		Maria Theresa was succeeded by her son, Joseph II.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/vienna/0068039018.html (326 words)

	Philip IV of Spain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Maria Theresa of Spain (1638-1683), queen consort of France as first wife of Louis XIV of France
		He has been held responsible for the fall of Spain, which was, however, mostly due to internal causes beyond the control of either a capable ruler or a despot.
		Philip IV (Spanish: Felipe IV) (April 8, 1605 – September 17, 1665) was the king of Spain, from 1621 until his death, and king of Portugal as Philip III (Portuguese: Filipe III) until 1640.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Philip_IV_of_Spain (741 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : Tales of a Thaler
		The Maria Theresa thaler was similarly enmeshed in political intrigue, hoarded in subterranean chambers and used by European governments in the purchase and rental of such strategic Arabian Sea and Red Sea ports as Aden and Massawa.
		Maria Theresa's thaler coin had its origins in the 16th century as well, when the first Habsburg thalers were minted in an empire that then included Central Europe, the Low Countries and Spain with its American dominions.
		Maria Theresa entered into the Habsburg inheritance in 1740 on the death of her father, Emperor Charles VI.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/200301/tales.of.a.thaler.htm (3565 words)

	Maria Theresa -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		German Maria Theresia 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).
		Called “the most human of the Hapsburgs,” Maria Theresa was a key figure in the complex politics of Europe in the 1700s.
		In order to secure all the Austrian possessions to his daughter Maria Theresa, Charles had drawn up a code of succession (the Pragmatic Sanction) and worked tirelessly to have it accepted by the European powers.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9050889 (790 words)

	21ST GENERATION
		Alfonso XII of SPAIN and Maria Cristina of AUSTRIA Archduchess of Austria had the following children:
		Alfonso XII of SPAIN was born on 28 Nov 1857 in Spain - son of Queen Isabella II and Francisco.
		He was married to Marie de las Mercedes de MONTPENSIER Queen of Spain (daughter of Duc Antoine Philippe duc de MONTPENSIER Duke Anthony and Louise of SPAIN Infanta of Spain) in Milan (cousins).
	home.att.net /~hamiltonclan/hamilton/gilbert/d7630.htm (147 words)

	Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafn180 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		MARIA THERESA (1717-1780) was Holy Roman empress, queen of Hungary and Bohemia, and archduchess of Austria.
		In 1772, Maria Theresa joined with Russia and Prussia in a division of Poland and gained most of the region of Galicia.
		By this treaty, Maria Theresa lost almost all of the rich province of Silesia to Frederick II of Prussia (see FREDERICK II [Of Prussia]).
	www.maximiliangenealogy.co.uk /maximilia/pafn180.htm (622 words)

	PHILIP V OF SPAIN FACTS AND INFORMATION
		Ferdinand_VI_of_Spain, his son by his first queen Maria_Luisa_of_Savoy, succeeded him.
		King Philip V of Spain (December_19, 1683 – July_9, 1746) or Philippe of Anjou was king of Spain from 1700 to 1746, the first of the Bourbon dynasty in Spain.
		During his reign Spain began to recover from the stagnation it had suffered during the twilight of the Habsburg dynasty.
	www.igopay.com /Philip_V_of_Spain (370 words)

	Maria Theresa, (1717-1780)
		The reforms of Maria Theresa and Joseph II strengthened the Austrian monarcy enough to allow it to withstand the turmoil in the aftermath of the French Revolution and the Napoleanic era.
		Although the Habsburg reforms imitated in many ways the ideals of the Enlightenment thinkers, Maria Theresa and her sons reformed their governments to centralize and strengthen the power of the Austrian court and to enrich their pockets: they were reformers because the reforms benefited not only the peasants but themselves.
		And Maria Theresa, a pious Catholic empress who aspired to be an absolute despot and who was unsympathetic to the ideas of the Enlightenment was a fairly successful reformer.
	www.pinn.net /~sunshine/whm2001/maria.html (1583 words)

	Catherine de' Medici: Diabolist or Scapegoat?
		Characters like Elizabeth I of England, Isabella of Spain and Maria Theresa of the Holy Roman Empire, are the exceptions rather than the rule.
		At the same time she kept the Catholic Philip II of Spain happy by siding with him against his enemies in the matter of the American colonies.
		Fiercely Catholic Spain took issue with Protestant, independent England, and France was caught right in the middle of it all.
	www.angelfire.com /jazz/louxsie/medici.html (1944 words)

	Louis XIV of France
		Louis married Maria Theresa of Spain (Marie-Thérèse d'Espagne) in 1660.
		" -- (after his grandson Philip V became King of Spain)
		This event presumably had an impact upon Louis, as he became determined never to allow such an uprising to occur again.
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/l/lo/louis_xiv_of_france.html (1395 words)

	Sarjeants
		And in 1660 the infants Maria Theresa of Spain married the King of France Louis the 16th it became well established and Versailles and through out the French aristocratic and the intellectual circles.
		For two and a hale centuries controversy raged throughout the catholic countries as to whether the taking of chocolate broke the ecclesiastical fast.
		It trickled into court life through the intermarriages of royal families.
	www.sarjeants.co.uk /history.asp (670 words)

	boys clothing: European royalty Austria
		Austria under Maria Thresa lost several military engagements with the expanding Prussian power to the north, especially during the reign of Frederick the Great.
		His father was Holy Roman/Austrian Emperor Francis II (1768-) and his mother was Maria Theresa of Naplesv (1772-).
		Maria Theresa in 1740 ascended the throne and ruled for 40 years.
	histclo.hispeed.com /royal/ost/royal-aus.htm (3330 words)

	Maria Theresa de España
		English version: Maria Theresa of Spain Next: Memoria compartida distribuida Up
		Maria Theresa de España (en francés: Marie Thérèse) (de septiembre el 10 de 1638 - de julio el 30, 1683), consort de la reina de Francia como esposa de Louis XIV de Francia, fue llevado en el Escorial como la hija de Philip IV de España y de Elisabeth de Francia (1602 - 1644).
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/ma/Maria%20Theresa%20de%20Espa%F1a.htm (385 words)

	The wars of Louis XIV
		Louis insisted that this renunciation was conditional on prompt payment by Spain of Maria Theresa's dowry (500,000 gold écus) - an undertaking Spain failed to fulfill.
		When Louis XIV married Maria Theresa, daughter of Philip IV, she formally renounced her claims to succeed as ruler of any Spanish territory.
		Louis XIV announced that because the dowry had not been paid, and because the local laws of Brabant gave the children of a first marriage priority in inheritance over those of a second, Maria Theresa was the true ruler of much of the Spanish Netherlands.
	history.wisc.edu /sommerville/351/351-14.htm (1424 words)

	maria theresa - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Phrases that include maria theresa: maria theresa dollar, maria theresa of austria, maria theresa of spain, maria theresa thaler
		Maria Theresa : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
		MARIA THERESA : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?loc=rescb&w=maria+theresa (123 words)

	Spanish Royal Family
		Isabel's father King Fernando VII of Spain and Infante Francisco de Asis's father Infante Francisco de Paula of Spain (Duke of Cadiz) were brothers.
		Prince Amedeo of Savoy (1 st Duke of Aosta) was the King of Spain from 16 November 1870 to 11 February 1873.
		Isabel's mother Princess Maria Christina of Bourbon Two Sicilies and Infante Francisco de Assisis's mother Princess Louise of Bourbon Two Sicilies were also sisters.
	www.btinternet.com /~allan_raymond/Spanish_Royal_Family.htm (1200 words)

	Louis XIV of France Details, Meaning Louis XIV of France Article and Explanation Guide
		Under the same treaty, Louis XIV was to marry the daughter of Philip IV of Spain, Maria Theresa (Marie Thérèse).
		All of Louis's legitimate children were by his first wife, Maria Theresa.
		Spain had agreed to pay a large dowry (50,000 gold écus), but failed to fulfill such a promise.
	www.e-paranoids.com /l/lo/louis_xiv_of_france.html (4308 words)

	Katie Utter
		Louis married Maria Theresa of Spain in 1659.
		He came into full power of France in 1661.
		When Mazarin died in 1661, Louis decided he didn’t want a powerful advisor and then started to change history.
	www.public.coe.edu /~kgutter/argumentative_essay.htm (591 words)

	LOUIS, DUKE OF BURGUNDY FACTS AND INFORMATION
		Louis, duke_of_Burgundy (August_16, 1682 - February_18, 1712) was the son of Louis,_the_Grand_Dauphin and Maria Anna of Bavaria.
	www.witwib.com /Louis,_Duke_of_Burgundy (346 words)

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