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Birth of Maria Theresa on May 13th, 1717 at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria to Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI and Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.
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Maria Theresa married the younger brother of the French noble Leopold Clement, Francis Stephen after he was awarded her hand in marriage for help in the War of the Polish Succession.
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Occurred only one year following losing the territory to Charles Albert of Bavaria.
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She ruled the Holy Roman Empire with her husband, Francis I.
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Within one week, Maria Theresa´s husband Francis I had died and her son Joseph was married. Upon Francis I´s death, Joseph became Holy Roman Emperor, but he and Maria Theresa ruled jointly until her death.
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Maria Antonia, the 15th and final daughter of Maria Theresa, born in 1755, was married to future King Louis XVI of France. She subsequently changed her name to Marie Antoinette and played an important role in the French Revolution in the following decades.
