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7 unusual facts about Charles VI


Alcoy, Spain

During the War of Spanish Succession, Alcoi sided for the cause of archduke Charles, and was therefore besieged and stripped of numerous privileges, which started a period of decline.

Bernardino Fernández de Velasco, 6th Duke of Frías

In spite of this, after a great deal of bloodshed, Habsburg Charles VI daughter was Maria Theresa (German: Maria Theresia Walburga Amalia Christina, 13 May 1717 – 29 November 1780), the only female sole ruler of the Habsburg dominions and the last of the House of Habsburg.

Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles was extremely discontented at the loss of Spain, and as a result, he mimicked the staid Spanish Habsburg court ceremonial, adopting the dress of a Spanish monarch, which, according to British historian Edward Crankshaw, consisted of "a black doublet and hose, black shoes and scarlet stockings".

De-Pierre Map

The map was dedicated to empress Elisabeth Christine, the wife of Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor.

János Pálffy

After the death of Emperor Charles VI in 1740, he became protector of the young Empress Maria Theresia and her councilor, mainly in Hungarian affairs.

Lectionary 46

Between 1714 and 1733 it was presented by monks to Caesar Karl VI, in that time king of Naples.

Mechanical calculator

In 1727, a German, Antonius Braun, presented the first fully functional four operations machine to Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor in Vienna.


1725 in art

January 20 – The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is refounded by Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, as the k.k. Hofakademie der Maler, Bildhauer und Baukunst, under the direction of the French-born court painter Jacob van Schuppen.

Armenians in Poland

In Transylvania they founded two new cities, Erszebetvaros (Elisabethstadt, Dumbrăveni) and Szamos-ujvar (Armenierstadt, Gherla), which, as a special favor, were declared free cities by Charles VI, Emperor of Austria (1711‑1740).

Barrier Treaty

The result of the Barrier Treaty was that the Holy Roman emperor Charles VI did not have a lot to say about "his" Austrian Netherlands.

Battle of Villaviciosa

After the victories in the Battle of Almenara (July 27), and the Battle of Saragossa (August 20), the allies supporting Archduke Charles captured Madrid for the second time, and on 21 September the Archduke Charles entered Madrid.

Château de Blandy-les-Tours

The kings Charles V (1364 - 1380) and Charles VI (1380 - 1422) financed the transformation into a castle for the successive owners of the castle, the counts de Tancarville Jean II and his grandson Guillaume IV.

Conseil du Roi

Certain kings were unable to reduce their importance (Louis X, Philip VI, John II, Charles VI), while others were more successful (Charles V, Louis XI, Francis I).

Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Elisabeth Christine arrived in Spain in July 1708 and married Charles on 1 August 1708 in the church of Santa Maria del Mar in Barcelona.

At the time of the wedding, Charles was fighting for his rights to the Spanish throne against the French-born King Philip V of Spain, so he was living in Barcelona.

Fernando Sánchez de Tovar

In 1382 he travelled to France and joined the army of Charles VI during the siege of Brugge, ruled by the rebel Philip van Artevelde, but he soon returned to Castile.

Fromental Halévy

Halévy was elected to the Institut de France in 1836, but after La Juive,his real successes were relatively few, although at least three operas, L'éclair, La reine de Chypre and Charles VI received some critical and popular acclaim.

Ioan Giurgiu Patachi

Later the Synod elected the former secretary of Atanasie, Venceslav Franz, but this selection was opposed by the Hasburg monarch, the Emperor Charles VI, because Franz was a lay.

Jakub Kresa

The Emperor Leopold I appointed Kresa as confessor of his second son, the Archduke Charles.

Jean Le Mercier

Jean Le Mercier, who died July 3, 1397, Lord of Nouvion, was a French politician, advisor to kings Charles V and Charles VI.

Kingdom of Gibraltar

When Gibraltar was captured by an Anglo-Dutch fleet on behalf of the Archduke Charles, claimant to the Spanish throne, in 1704, the city council and most of the population left, founding in 1706 the nearby town of San Roque.

Miguel José de Bournonville, 1st Duke of Bournoville

He became Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Spain in Versailles, France, in 1722 and in Vienna in 1726 under Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, (1685–1740).

Ramon de Vilana Perlas

Ramon Frederic de Vilana-Perlas (Oliana, Urgell, Spain 1663 - Vienna, Austria, June 5, 1741) was a notable Spanish nobleman of Catalan descent who became a man of the utmost confidence of the Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor during the War of the Spanish Succession and the following years, working in favor of the Spanish exiles in the court of Vienna.

William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington

Later in the same year he was appointed Secretary of State for the Northern Department under Sir Robert Walpole, replacing Lord Townshend, but, like George II, he was anxious to assist the emperor Charles VI in his war with France, while Walpole favoured a policy of peace.


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Afrosinya

Aid was offered because Charles VI thought Peter capable of murdering his heir as he wrote his cousin, King George I of Great Britain, and because he hoped to have Alexei return to Russia as his puppet.

Count Wirich Philipp von Daun

He was to prepare the arrival of the new governor Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, sister of emperor Charles VI.

Duke of Parma

The Duke of Parma also usually held the title of Duke of Guastalla from 1735 (when Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor took it from Mantua) to 1847 (when the territory was ceded to Modena), again, except for the Napoleonic dukes, when Napoleon's sister Pauline was Duchess of Guastalla and of Varella.

Lothar Franz von Schönborn

In 1726, Emperor Charles VI granted Palanok Castle with Mukacheve, Chynadiyovo and 200 villages in the Kingdom of Hungary (today part of the Ukraine) to Elector Lothar Franz who had not only elected and crowned him, but had remained one of his most influential political supporters within the Empire.

Manuel II Palaiologos

In 1399, French King Charles VI sent Marshal Boucicaut with 6 ships carrying 1,200 men from Aigues-Mortes to Constantinople, later 300 men under Seigneur Jean de Chateaumorand remained to defend the city against Bayezid.

Maria Margherita Grimani

Grimani may have been related to the powerful Grimani family, perhaps to Pietro Grimani, who negotiated an alliance between Charles VI and Venice (of which Pietro was later doge) against the Turks, in the same year that Maria's Pallade was performed at court.

Marie of Valois

Marie of Valois, Prioress of Poissy, daughter of Charles VI of France and Isabeau of Bavaria