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Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor

1685 – 1740 · Generation XV · Holy Roman Emperor (r. 1711–1740) · Austrian Habsburgs

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Charles (1685 – 1740). Holy Roman Emperor (r. 1711–1740). Married Elisabeth Christine in 1708. Last male-line Habsburg; his Pragmatic Sanction secured his daughter Maria Theresa's inheritance. Before the imperial crown he fought for another entirely: proclaimed “Charles III” of Spain against the Bourbon Philip of Anjou, he spent six years in the peninsula, holding effective rule only in Catalonia, until his brother’s death called him back to Vienna. The peace settlement cost him Spain but gave Austria Naples, Milan, Sardinia, and the Netherlands; he mourned the loss ever after, keeping Spanish ceremonial and dress at court. Victory over the Ottomans in 1716–1718 carried his rule to the lower Danube. Yet the powers whose signatures he collected for his daughter’s succession — paying, among other prices, the closure of his Ostend trading company — reneged, and his death ignited the War of the Austrian Succession.

Place in the family

  • Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor was the father of Maria Theresa.
  • Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor was the youngest of 3 children of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor and Eleonore Magdalene of Neuburg recorded in this archive.
  • The archive records 24 of his descendants, across 10 generations.

One of 24 people of Austrian Habsburgs (1527–1754) in this archive. The Vienna line, which held the Holy Roman crown almost without a break.

Line of descent: Rudolf I of Germany → Albert I of Germany → Albert II, Duke of Austria → Leopold III, Duke of Austria → Ernest, Duke of Austria → Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor → Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor → Philip I of Castile → Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor → Charles II, Archduke of Austria → Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor → Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor → Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor → Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor.

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  • 1685 — Born
  • 1708 — Married Elisabeth Christine
  • 1740 — Died

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