Maria Theresa Walburga Amalia Christina
Maria Theresa born May 13th, 1717 at the Hofburg Palace, Vienna, shortly after her older brother death and died November 29th, of the year 1780. Maria Theresa was the only female ruler of the Habsburg dominions and the last. She was the sovereign of Austria. By marriage she was the Holy Roman Empress. Maria Theresa started her 40 – year reign when her father died. Her father is Emperor Charles VI who died in October 1740. Maria Theresa and her husband 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. Maria Theresa was first engaged to be married to Leopold Clement of Lorraine, who was suppose to visit Vienna and meet the Archduchess in 1723. However news reached the he died of small pox’s. Francis Stephen remained at the imperial court until 1729, when he ascended the throne of Lorraine, but he was not formally promised Marias hand. On January 31st the year 1736 during the war of the Polish succession he was formally promised her hand. They were married on the 12th of February the year 1736. Maria Theresa mother Empress Elisabeth Christine, died in the year 1740. Maria Theresa came down with small pox’s shortly after her fiftieth birthday on May of the years 1767, which was caught from her daughter-in-law. A couple years past by and on November 28th the year 1780 she died of heart failer at the age of 63.