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Maria Theresa of Spain

1638 - 1683

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Maria Theresa of Spain (Spanish: María Teresa de Austria; French: Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche; 10 September 1638 – 30 July 1683) was Queen of France from 1660 to 1683 as the wife of King Louis XIV. She was born an Infanta of Spain and Portugal as the daughter of King Philip IV and Elisabeth of France, and was also an Archduchess of Austria as a member of the Spanish branch of the House of Habsburg. Her marriage in 1660 to King Louis XIV, her double first cousin, was arranged with the purpose of ending the lengthy war between France and Spain. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maria Theresa of Spain has received more than 4,112,404 page views. Her biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 49 in 2019). Maria Theresa of Spain is the 36th most popular companion (down from 34th in 2019), the 60th most popular biography from Spain (down from 51st in 2019) and the most popular Spanish Companion.

Maria Theresa of Spain was born in 1717 and died in 1780. She 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, Transylvania, 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.

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  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Maria Theresa of Spain ranks 36 out of 784. Before her are Hortense de Beauharnais, Olympias, Caroline of Ansbach, Ingrid of Sweden, Mary Boleyn, and Messalina. After her are Eugénie de Montijo, Catherine Parr, Catherine Howard, Queen Sonja of Norway, Salman the Persian, and Zita of Bourbon-Parma.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1638, Maria Theresa of Spain ranks 2. Before her is Louis XIV of France. After her are Shunzhi Emperor, Nicolas Malebranche, Nicolas Steno, Catherine of Braganza, Emperor Go-Sai, Meindert Hobbema, Olympia Mancini, Countess of Soissons, Elisabetta Sirani, James Gregory, and Christoph Cellarius. Among people deceased in 1683, Maria Theresa of Spain ranks 3. Before her are Turhan Hatice Sultan, and Jean-Baptiste Colbert. After her are Kara Mustafa Pasha, Afonso VI of Portugal, Guarino Guarini, Maria Francisca of Savoy, Margravine Hedwig Sophie of Brandenburg, Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Jacob Stainer, John Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, and Juraj Križanić.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Maria Theresa of Spain ranks 60 out of 3,355. Before her are El Cid (1045), Lope de Vega (1562), Abd al-Rahman III (889), Tomás de Torquemada (1420), Jusepe de Ribera (1591), and Florentino Pérez (1947). After her are Ramon Llull (1232), Eugénie de Montijo (1826), Quintilian (35), Josep Borrell (1947), Ferdinand VII of Spain (1784), and Abbas ibn Firnas (810).

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Among COMPANIONS In Spain

Among companions born in Spain, Maria Theresa of Spain ranks 1. After her are Eugénie de Montijo (1826), Blanche of Castile (1188), Catherine of Austria, Queen of Portugal (1507), Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal (1470), Carlos, Prince of Asturias (1545), Inês de Castro (1325), Berengaria of Navarre (1165), Francis, Duke of Cádiz (1822), Maria of Aragon, Queen of Portugal (1482), Brunhilda of Austrasia (543), and Joanna la Beltraneja (1462).

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