Read part one here. After being made to renounce her claim to the Habsburg lands by her uncle Charles, Maria Joseph and Frederick Augustus were married on 20 August 1719. Nevertheless, with Charles’s daughters still in their infancy, there remained a distant possibility of succeeding to the Imperial Crown. The couple would go on to [read more]
Maria Josepha of Austria was born on 8 December 1699 as the eldest child of the future Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor and Princess Wilhelmina Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg. A younger brother named Leopold Joseph was born the following year, but he died of hydrocephalus before his first birthday. A sister named Maria Amalia was born [read more]
The Kingdom of Poland existed several times throughout history. The first Kingdom of Poland from 1025 to 1385. In 1000, Poland was recognised as a state during the Congress of Gniezo by the Holy Roman Empire and the Pope. Duke Boleslaus I the Brave of Poland became its first King in 1025. Boleslaus was married four [read more]
When Maria Theresa of Austria ascended the throne, it was due to her father’s efforts in getting the Mutual Pact of Succession amended into the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713. Her father was Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor and he had succeeded his brother, Joseph I in 1711 as Joseph had no male heirs. However, he did have [read more]
Maria Josepha of Saxony is not really a well-known person, perhaps because the man she married died before he became King, but she became the mother of three Kings, including the tragic Louis XVI. Maria Josepha was born the daughter of Frederick Augustus II, Prince-Elect of Saxony and King of Poland and Maria Josepha of [read more]
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