Maria Theresa of Austria - Holy Roman Empress Documentary
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Being pregnant for so long and giving birth to so many healthy children who lived into adulthood is remarkable enough a feat to admire this woman.
Think about poor Queen Anne, the last Stuart monarch of England. She had 17 children, and all of them died before her. 😔
@@nassauguy48 Yeah, old Anne Stuart was pretty much the complete opposite of Maria Theresa.
@@nassauguy48 It's amazing. My grandmother, barely a hundred pounds soaking wet, had 13 children. 10 made it past age 20. I still can't believe it.
Her having living children isnt to be admired. Children oftwn died of diseases and their parents couldnt prevent it. Maria Theresa was lucky to have surviving children. Many of her children did also die young to. I just dont get how you can admire someone just for having living kids.😂
@@jamiemohan2049 Having living children has been something to be admired for most of human history and is literally celebrated in cultures all around the world. Having living children at a time when it was so easy for them to die from any number of complications doesn’t just speak to them or her being “lucky”, but also to her personal health and lifestyle. A lot more work goes into pregnancy, childbirth, and raising children than mere luck. I don’t see how any adult wouldn’t know that.
Man the XVIII century saw some true “iron ladies”
One thing which really gives insight into her character: she hired someone for the sole purpose of critiquing her every move, with brutal honesty.
Marie Antoinette's mom. Darn tough woman.
Maria Theresa was a formidable woman, Frederick II of Prussia underestimated her steely resolve when he initially invaded Silesia. Considering how much warfare took place in that period, it was a considerable achievement she was able to hold the Austrian Empire together and keep it strong.
well, she still bowed to Prussia and never recovered Silesia so... lol
@@brunolima7402 Frederick would have been toast if the empress of Russia had not died and been succeeded by her Prussian fanboy successor. Maria Theresa's grand strategy was successful and she might have lost Silesia but ended up gaining other territories as compensation.
Bruno Lima lol does Prussia still exist?
@@Rings-of-Saturn2 But even before that, there was an opportunity to defeat Prussia, but the opportunity was squandered because of Austro-Russian quarrels. After the Battle of Kunersdorf, Frederick II thought about suicide, the Prussian army was shattered. It should also be mentioned that Frederick himself was also surprised by the quality of the Austrian troops, after all, even in the initial victorious battles the Prussian army usually had more losses than the Austrians. Even the victorious battle of Prague cost Field Marshal Schwerin his life. Then we have Kolin, that is the massacre of Frederick's best soldiers and the destruction of the whole war plan of the pig and the tyrant as Frederick II was called by his brothers August Wilhelm and Prince Henry.
As far as compensations are concerned - if you mean the partition of Poland I would point to this as a failure of the Habsburgs, as it strengthened Prussia in the long term. Maria Theresa and Kaunitz made an important contribution to the partition dominion.
@@brunolima7402 Lol, just like Frederick failed to take Vienna several times during the Seven Years' War.
I think she was an awesome chick .I visited her castle back in 1971. It was so beautiful. She did the best she could considering the times she lived in. Having 16 children and being a queen, that's not easy.She was a very strong woman!
She didn't really have a relationship with her children. They were raised and educated by nannies and tutors and she didn't even breastfeed them, they had staff for that, too. She was basically a breeding machine. But that doesn't take anything off her credits of being an exceptional figure in a male-dominant world.
@@vstoeng She was a breeding machine allright, but that's how things were back then. Don't forget contraception was not available to women (in the form of pill etc) until Woodstock times - which was what ? 1969? And back then they conceived just about any time they were intimate. And no, they didn't have time to breastfeed. That's what those so-called "wet-nurses" were there for. And in the royal households, it was typical. Sissi fought it later tooth and nail but then ended up having to give in for her first 3 children and later her last daughter with whom she was close, because she was able to raise her herself (the so-called Hungarian child as she referred to it). So yes, Maria Theresa was an admirable woman. This was not something that was easily done. Not with the pressure she had to withstand, the male chauvinism against which she had to proof herself daily-hourly, and the health issues which slowed her down. I can't even fathom the pain of a parent who has to bury his own child. She had a few of those instances as well. Was she close to them and did she feel it the same way as a mother would these days? Who knows? She wasn't the only parent to bury her child(ren). At any rate - to answer the original question, yes she was definitely someone who deserved the accolades she probably never really got until later in history and posthumously.
To think that we are able to watch this masterpiece for free.
Thank you guys at TPP for all your work! ☺
You must have been raised well. Very nice of you to take the time to offer your thanks.
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Every city in Belgium has a Maria Theresa street. The enlightenment she and her son brought was a relief after the dark centuries under the Spanish Habsburgs.
Frankly spoken ist was mostly her son, not her, he ruled many years along side her and he was the one who drove the age of enlighment. She was influenced by him but the question nowadays really is how much her rule was not the one of her son regarding all this. Her big achievement was to basically keep the country together and put the dynasty back on stable grounds, but I am not so sure whether she was so enlightened. A prime example was the exilation of protestants into laborcamps in romania her father started, she did not stop that practice her son did.
I beg to differ. The Spanish Habsburgs did rule poorly and mismanaged the Empire after Philip II, but Charles V and his son Philip II were excellent monarchs. They were true Renaissance men speaking several languages including Greek and Latin, being scholars of astronomy, navigation, history, philosophy, and other disciplines. In addition they were sincere Catholics who after their individual reigns retired to monasteries to live the life of monks, dedicating themselves to prayer. They governed the affairs of state prudently and severely reproved those conquistadores who treated American natives (yes, America means North, Central, and South America) as anything less than human beings with souls. These facts are documented. Perhaps if Mr. Roggeman and many others read anything besides narratives tainted by the Black Legend, created by Protestants of the 16th and 17th centuries, they might be more knowledgeable about Spain's actions in Europe and the New World, and the reigns of her kings.
What rubbish are you writing, the Ottoman Empire brought the light of civilisation to steps of Europe which was in their period of the Dark Ages.
dark ages
@@martaacosta4415 I beg to differ too. Philip II was a horrible king. He was the main cause that our country 'the Low Lands' fell apart into two nations. He was an extremely intolerant devout catholic lunatic and the butcher of out lands, ravaged it to the ground. And no, unlike his father, he never knew Dutch, the language of his most precious lands. He has even never visited his Burgundian crown lands.
This woman definitely was extraordinary as she had to manage to be a quite successful ruler of the huge state in times when most societies did not accept women as leaders. She, just like Elizabeth I and Katherine The Great proved that women can govern the country for prolonged period of time without major failures
I’m loving all the women’s biographies! I can’t wait for more!
Another one as inbound.
@@PeopleProfiles Will you be doing one on Margaret Thatcher and her role in ending the Cold War?
she was probably the greatest female monarch of all time. Really cared about her people.
Yes! One of the greatest Rulers of all time. One of the Greatest members of the Habsburg Dynasty and the woman who stood at the pinnacle of power in Europe in her time.
She was the Emperor's spouse. There was no title of Empress in the Holy Roman Empire.
However she was Queen of Hungary 🇭🇺
Slight correction, Joseph was Holy Roman Emperor in his own right for years before his mother died. Maria Theresa was never elected Holy Roman Empress, that had to go to a male. So she made sure her husband was elected then her son after his death. When her husband died, she was technically not an Empress any longer. She was Archduchess of Austria, Queen of Hungary, and Bohemia. On her death, Joseph succeeded to those titles but he'd been crowned Emperor already.
I think she really did amazing as a ruler as she could've with all the obstacles in front of her. Fighting for her own legitimacy and coming through that with a stronger Austria with a better economy is something to be commended for
An icon a hustler and a woman who knew what she wanted and an marvelous ruler🎉
Thanks. Probably my favourite female historical figure.
I'm the only one who indagine a conversation towards Isabelle of castille, Maria Theresa of Austria and Catherine de medici?, i don't know but i feel like that would be epic
Excellent video. Much appreciated for info on strong women in history,! Much admiration for her struggles to rule Austria and surrounding areas all the while being pregnant and giving birth to so many children.
Everytime you say "Hapsburg" I think of the Hapsburg jaw 😁
May I suggest Jan Zizka, one of the greatest generals in history. And thank you for your amazing contribution.
Maria Theresa was a highly successful ruler who modernised her very diverse and impoverished realms. Without her effective rule the Austrian empire could easily have been divided like the Polish Commonwealth in the later C18th. Thus she bequeathed a functioning and financially stable realm to her son Joseph and to their heirs and to the citizens of their diverse lands. Who lived under a far more enlightened and tolerant system than many other European peoples. In particular Russia which also had a powerful female ruler ,Catherine the Great. Catherine had one child and was the darling of the Enlightenment, but Maria had sixteen and actually. carried out enlightened legal, educational, military and financial reform. Not just talk about it.
She was such a formidable woman. Even while she was in labour, she still read the state papers and made decisions among her ministers.
Glad to see another upload. 😁 Thank you for your hard work!
Glad nice history thank you
Can you do one about the last queen of the Hawaiian Kingdom?
Yes! I would love to see some videos about Hawaiian royalty!
Full history coverage & informative video about this historical personal ..thanks for sharing
I'm glad I made it in time.
By god, sir! So you have.
I love listening to these vids while working
I was listening to the Pol Pot one while is was making my breakfast at work this morning :)
Love that education is being credited for being enlightened while all the bad things being credited to Catholicism. It'd be nice to get someone who just said that facts without prejudice. As a matter of fact, catholics are the ones who established universities.
I think you'll find that universities were founded by the Arabs. And, no, I don't like Islam or any other religion.
The Frederick vs Maria was probably one of the best male female monarch confrontation. And she basically was constantly waiting for babies. about her ultra catholicism, this was quite common in that time and religious tolerance was often very very low in many countries.
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Maria Teresa was formidable no matter how you look at her. She was smart, crafty, practical and implacable. That she persecuted Jews is to be lamented, as is her persecution of gays, but she did abolish torture, a major step forward. She was adept at enlisting Hungarian aid in her war with Prussia.
I would like you to do the biographies of Queen Isabella I of Castile and Empress Elizabeth of Russia.
My paternal grandparents had an Austro-Hungarian passport. They were ethnic Croatians. My grandfather sensed the winds of war and they came to the US in 1912. Two years prior to the beginning of World War I.
Great video but as a person from Maria Theresa former empire, I am a bit confused when you repeatedly stated, that her husband did not love her. Our education, be it university or elementary school always teached us that their marriage was love match, despite his many lovers.
You are correct. I noticed this, too. It was a love match, infidelity was just the way men behaved back then.
I was also surprised by that statement, yes.
It has been revised in the video about Marie-Antoinette however.
I always heard that, too, and there is even a famous color sketch of the family in a loving domestic scene.
Yes she visited his grave frequently, she was so obese at the end of her life that she had a elevator installed in his mosoleum. She almost died when the ropes snapped and she fell during a visit.
Yeah, I always thought he probably cheated because it must have been especially tough for his ego back then that she was so much more powerful than him, he wouldn't have been emperor without his wife, I'm sure they loved each other but for a man of his time he might have had complicated feelings about their roles in life.
Ah best way to spend a Tuesday night
Fascinating as always. Thanks.
Authoritarian and a bit of a religious zealot, but a very remarkable woman for her time and place.
Also: Updated biographies of Cathrine the great, Fredrick the great, and this woman's son Joseph for a compilation of the enlightened despots?
Don’t Christians pay a heavy tax in Muslim countries where it is considered fair and religious tolerance.
If i remember right Charles III of Spain also counts as enlightened despot.
FTI, Nancy Goldstone has a book covering her and her daughters. “In the Shadow of the Empress.” Good stuff! She’s not a dry writer.
It's generally agreed that Louis XVI suffered from phimosis, a condition where the foreskin becomes painful when the penis is, shall we say, at full mast. One of his courtiers exclaimed in frustration that he suffered from something any rabbi in Paris could cure. (He was eventually circumcised.)
Thanks!
Thank you!
I love history. This was very interesting and informative. I should know, but who can remember everything from school, I’m from Czech Republic 🤓
Please do Karl V of Habsburg next!
Frederick the Great of Prussia spoke French to his inner circle.
Maria Theresia spoke in Viennese dialect to her inner circle.
More Holy Roman videos please
Fredrick the Great next I hope, he hated this lady with a passion
If you'll ever do Maksim Gorky i want to suggest title "favourite poet of USSR" or "best selling soviet author".
Yes. This is the one I was waiting for
I l live in Vienna and feel like I benefit everyday from her rule
All Austrians do, not just Viennese and Hungarians and other Eastern Europeans from the empire.
I'm really impressed with her story!❤
Well presented
This is one of my relatives on my mother’s side.
A small remark. Buda and Pest were only united in 1873. The capital of Hungary was Pozsony today's Bratislava at that time.
A very good documentary about a very interesting person.
While I appreciate the excellent pronunciation & enunciation of this narrator, I often feel, as I do here, that a common mistake with documentaries is the lack of pauses between chapters of subject material. It can result in a constant monologue as well as a decrease in viewers' time to absorb & understand what was just described.
As far as this presentation, I didn't learn much that was new to me about Maria Theresa, Francis I, Joseph II, Francis II, Catherine II & Frederick II. I've read their biographies as well as a history of the Hapsburgs. I believe justice was done to this period of this complex & interesting dynasty. As to Maria herself, I study history because I find people fascinating. I make no judgements about historical figures. To judge people of the past based on contemporary standards is a mistake in my view.
Maria was a very strong willed and brave ruler for her time
Intresting history centurys European thank you
I've been told I have a past life with this group - I think we are who we are - (as we best know it). Some of this time frame does feel familiar (due to dreams). I think we go into the clay pot - and are created by "creator." It isn't about personality (or ego).
Salzburg, that time wasnt part of habsburgs territory, it was a own state, owned by church ruled by a archbishop
I think she was an awesome chick .I visited her castle back in 2014 and also Salzburg, that time wasnt part of habsburgs territory, it was historically, a own state, owned by church ruled by a archbishop. It was so beautiful. She did the best she could considering the times she lived in. Having 16 children and being a queen, that's not easy.She was a very strong woman!
Mary Therese was a woman of very strong power and her strutture in Europe, grave rise to today's Europe.
Sorry, but Maria Theresia was not Holy Roman Empress in her own right. Her husband, Franz Stephan von Lothringen, was the Holy Roman Emperor (followed by their son, Joseph II.) and she was the Empress consort "only"; however, she became Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia in her own right. Kind greetings from Austria and thank you for this nice video.
Please do more documentaries on non-European royalty. African/Asian monarchies are also very interesting too!
Mansa Musa of Mali, the richest person who ever lived.
Love your vidéo
Can you make one about Hurrem sultan?
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My respects to her
i am sorry to say you forgot Slovenia. Slovakia and Slovenia are two different countries😢
There was no Budapest during Maria Theresa's reign! Buda and Pest were distinct towns ! They united in 1873 i.e. almoust a century after M.T. died(1780)
She was wise strong and improved her country better than her father.
37:00 touting the enlightenment as if it wasn't a cascade of follies that lead to the woes of the 20th century (and beyond).
I think she was a bloody marvel.
She was never elected as holy roman empress, she could never be (because she was a woman). This title doesn't belong to her, but her husband was holy roman emperor since 13.9.1745. However she still was a highly influential person with great political power.
Maria Theresa was more than successful. What she tried to do in a lot of ways she accomplished. She not only kept her family name known and continuing for several generations she also paved the way for women. Compared to the women of this day and age it is really easy to say they do not make women that tough anymore. She had to be intelligent, patient, and shrewd. She suffered a lot. She did not stop. She was extraordinary lady who had commonsense and compassion.
That b*tch was nothing just a spit.
I think she was an awesome chick .I visited her castle back in 2014 and also Salzburg, that time wasnt part of habsburgs territory, it was historically, a own state, owned by church ruled by a archbishop. It was so beautiful. She did the best she could considering the times she lived in. Having 16 children and being a queen, that's not easy.She was a very strong woman!
An ancestor on my mother’s side of the family connected to Antoinette and others through house of Lorraine
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I think she was a Very Capable ruler during times of great changes and European political instability. All the while bearing so many children and all her domestic issues. She was a strong woman and has been very underated.
M.T. never was Empress of the HRE, but her husband was Emperor!
and by that she was Empress.....
@@riccardodececco4404 check again ... she was Archduchess and Queen but not Empress ...
@@galbax1 check again: "A political success after the death of Charles VII in 1745 was the election of Francis Stephen as Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. From then on, Maria Theresa also called herself "Roman Empress", but because of her own multiple royal dignities, she did not formally have herself crowned as such, although this had been the custom for empresses since the coronation of Cunegund in 1014."
highly interesting especially since I have ancestry from Bohemia
Interesting hitory amaizing thank you
Truly a worthy descendant of Queen Isabella the Catholic of Castile.
She was a strong ruler. Period. Notice you didn't use the phrase "female tyrant", but "strong female" ......
42:00 yeah 10000 were murdered in Germany and Switzerland. In Austria it was about 2 witches. Salzbzr was not under Habsburg control
Valeu!
Thank you!
I keep thinking I'm not hearing her story so much as what was going on around her
I can't believe this woman survived THAT many pregnancies/births!
It's almost inconceivable 😳
inconceivable - not really. Not in those times. It was not unusual.
@@junewilson1629 before antibiotics a simple tearing of the birth canal could easily become infected, with people not even washing their hands. This led to many women's death (Jane Seymour is an example that comes to mind, Catherine Parr also died after her first child due to an infection). Then what do you do if you have a breech birth or large blood loss? It's pretty well accepted as the most dangerous part of a woman's life, especially back then! (see what statistics are like, even today, in poor countries where women can't afford hospital care/medication etc). I don't mean to sound like I'm jumping up and down 😄 however, after reading many books on women of the same social status and era, I must disagree.
Maria was a popular name!
There is an "i" missing. Not once or twice, but all the time. Her name was Maria Theresia. T-H-E-R-E-S-I-A.
In English her name is spent Theresa
@@pedanticradiator1491 But she was not English. Names are names, there is no translation. Nobody, who speaks German, would call the current British monarch "Karl".
@@alestev24 yes today we tend to use actual names but in the past historians translated names hence we say Emperor Charles V not Karl or Carlos or Carlo
@@pedanticradiator1491 If it is translated, it should be Mary Theresa. "Maria Theresa" is "neither fish nor meat" (using a verbatim translation of a German figure of sprech).
@@alestev24 yes I know but no one ever said that the English language was logical
If English speakers study German, their English improves.
Studying in German with German speaking teachers is how I was first taught English in my elementary days.
There is a great deal of talking going on in these documentaries, which is good, but I’d like some more storyline to it and visuals, rather than just endless talking…
Louis XVI was the grandson of Louis XV.
Simple mistakes call into question the validity of the entire project. Basic editing would have corrected it.
Strange to hear of a leader who actually wants to improve their own country.
nice
I think she could be the greatest female monarch of all time. Period end of story, with Isabel perhaps coming in second.
Her name was Maria Theresia not Maria Theresa. And you can‘t just call her Maria. MARIA THERESIA
Sorry but serfdom wasn't dissapeared from the Habsburg Empire during the reign of Joseph the II . In the beginning the emperor gave some decrees for easing the serf burdens. Those edicts este followed by an edict of abolishing the serfdom. In most of the cases the imperial edict wasn't applied, and in his deathbed the emperor retracted the serfdom-abolishment-edict. By the way: in 1784 in Transylvania took place the H.C.C. serf revolt. In fact in the Habsburg Empire serfdom ended environ 1848.
Error: Salzburg was not an Austrian city before 1805/10 and finally after 1818, a whole generation after her death, but a theocratic state of its own ruled by the Princearchbishop.
Another historical Circus act
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Maria Theresia was never empress. There wasn't ssuch at itle. Her husband was emperor which was, at his time, almost a title without real power. .
CK 3 brought me here
I thought the thumbnail was a pun
These English were tying themselves in knots .
Every body kicked out the giuda because of sacrifices. Taxation started in 1913 in the usa.
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