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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 41. Chapters: Maria Theresa, Empress Matilda, Theophanu, Adelaide of Italy, Agnes of Poitou, List of Holy Roman Empresses, Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily, Margarita Teresa of Spain, Maria Luisa of Spain, Anna von Schweidnitz, Constance, Queen of Sicily, Maria Amalia of Austria, Barbara of Cilli, Isabella of Portugal, Maria of Austria, Holy Roman Empress, Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg, Margaret II, Countess of Hainault, Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress, Wilhelmine Amalia of Brunswick-Luneburg, Bianca Maria Sforza, Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundy, Isabella of England, Maria Anna of Spain, Isabella II of Jerusalem, Eleonora Gonzaga, Maria Josepha of Bavaria, Claudia Felicitas of Austria, Elizabeth of Pomerania, Anna of Tyrol, Cunigunde of Luxembourg, Gisela of Swabia, Eupraxia of Kiev, Richenza of Northeim, Maria Leopoldine of Austria, Richardis, Judith of Bavaria, Engelberga, Ermengarde of Tours, Ageltrude, Ermengarde of Hesbaye. Excerpt: Maria Theresa Walburga Amalia Christina (German: ) (13 May 1717 - 29 November 1780) was the only female ruler of the Habsburg dominions and the last of the House of Habsburg. She was the sovereign of Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, Mantua, Milan, Lodomeria and Galicia, the Austrian Netherlands and Parma. By marriage, she was Duchess of Lorraine, Grand Duchess of Tuscany and Holy Roman Empress. She started her 40-year reign when her father, Emperor Charles VI, died in October 1740. Charles VI paved the way for her accession with the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713, as the Habsburg lands were bound by Salic law which prevented female succession. Upon the death of her father, Saxony, Prussia, Bavaria and France repudiated the sanction they had recognised during his lifetime. Prussia proceeded to invade the affluent Habsburg province of Silesia, ..
