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Pragmatic Sanction of 1713
Pragmatic Sanction of 1713
the Pact, and Maria Josepha became his heir presumptive. However, Charles soon expressed a wish to amend
the Pact in order to give his own future daughters precedence over his nieces. On 19 April 1713, the Emperor announced the changes in a secret session of the council.[2]
Securing the right to succeed for his own daughters, who
were not even born yet, became Charless obsession. The
previous succession laws had also forbidden the partition
of the Habsburg dominions and provided for succession
by females but they had been mostly hypothetical. The
Pragmatic Sanction was the rst such document to be
publicly announced and as such required formal acceptance by the estates of the realms it concerned.[3]
2 Foreign recognition
For 10 years, Charles VI labored, with the support of his
closest advisor Johann Christoph von Bartenstein, to have
his sanction accepted by the courts of Europe. Only the
Electorate of Saxony and the Electorate of Bavaria did
not accept, because it was detrimental to their inheritance
rights. (Frederick Augustus II, Elector of Saxony was
married to Maria Josepha of Austria and Charles, Elector
of Bavaria to Maria Amalia of Austria, both daughters of
Charless deceased elder brother Joseph I)
France accepted in exchange for the duchy of Lorraine, under the Treaty of Vienna (1738).
6 BIBLIOGRAPHY
Internal recognition
Sanctions failure
References
6 Bibliography
Crankshaw, Edward: Maria Theresa, Longman
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Holborn, Hajo: A History of Modern Germany:
16481840 Princeton University Press 1982 ISBN
0-691-00796-9
Ingrao, Charles W: The Habsburg monarchy, 1618
1815 Cambridge University Press 2000 ISBN 0521-78505-7
Kann, Robert A.: A history of the Habsburg Empire,
15261918 University of California Press 1980
ISBN 0-520-04206-9
Mahan, J. Alexander: Maria Theresa of Austria
READ BOOKS 2007 ISBN 1-4067-3370-9
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