Maria Theresa of Spain

Maria Theresa of Spain

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 3,685,194 page views. Her biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Maria Theresa of Spain is the 37th most popular companion (down from 31st in 2019), the 51st most popular biography from Spain (down from 48th in 2019) and the 3rd 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.