First of all, Maria Theresa (1717-1780) was never actually crowned empress. As the only female ruler in the House of Habsburg, she was the Archduchess of Austria and the Queen of Hungary and Bohemia.

This portrait of Maria Theresa of Austria was painted between 1745 and 1750 when she was in her 30s and in her early years as the ruler of the Austrian empire. Her most famous child, Maria Antonia ...

Ahead of International Women’s Day and on the occasion of the release of her book, Le Pouvoir au féminin, Marie-Thérèse d’Autriche l’impératrice-reine about Maria Theresa of Austria, Elisabeth ...

Maria Theresa was immediately acknowledged as the rightful heir of the Holy Land – at that time spanning much of central Europe, including Germany, Austria and Switzerland – on the date of her birth ...

Maria Amalia, Archduchess of Austria and Duchess of Parma, (1746-1804) was the daughter of Maria Theresia of Austria – Queen of Bohemia and Holy Roman Empress by marriage – and Emperor Francis Stephen ...

In late October, the emperor Charles VI had died without a male heir, leaving the chaotic jumble of territories that made up the Habsburg patrimony to his 23-year-old daughter, Maria Theresa.

Toinette, your duty to Austria. To the House of Habsburg. To the Holy Roman Empire. And your duty to France. ♪ I look ridiculous. You look French. [whispers] French. [chuckles] [Maria Theresa] I ...

In one of its resplendent rooms, adorned with patterned red fabric wallpaper and a prominently displayed portrait of Empress Maria Theresa, Alexander Van der Bellen, Austria’s president ...