Maria theresa habsburg biography of mahatma gandhi
Empress Maria Theresa..
Maria Theresa of Austria-Teschen, Queen of the Two Sicilies (–) surrounded by her family while in exile.
Maria Theresa: Empress and mother of her peoples
In 1740, the provisions of the Pragmatic Sanction enabled Charles VI’s 23-year-old daughter Maria Theresa to take on her father’s highly problematic inheritance.
One approach to this development is that adopted by sympathetic historians such as Friedrich Walter, whose preface to a collection of source material states that in spite of all the ‘mighty events’ that ‘weighed so heavily upon her life’, ‘Maria Theresa’s human and political greatness ...
is generally recognized.’
The fact that not all European powers were willing to recognize Maria Theresa as her father’s legitimate heir led to the War of the Austrian Succession. For the first time since the fifteenth century, the Habsburgs had to relinquish the headship of the Holy Roman Empire, albeit only for a few years, on the election of the Wittelsbach Karl Albert in 1742.
After his death in 1745, the office fell back into Habsburg hands, or more correctly into the hands of the ne
