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MARIE-THÉRÈSE D'AUTRICHE / MARIA-THERESA OF AUSTRIA

The queens of France Anne of Austria or Marie-Thérèse of Austria are actually Spanish but the official title of their house is from Austria. Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519), son of Frederick III, succeeded him to the empire in 1493. More than the other Habsburgs, Maximilian used the policy of matrimonial alliances which inspired the famous "let others make war, you, happy Austria, contract marriages / For the kingdoms that Mars gives to others, it is Venus who assure you". Married to the heiress of Burgundy, Maximilien married his son Philippe le Beau with Jeanne la Folle, heiress of the Catholic Monarchs, then his grandchildren to obtain the crowns of Bohemia and Hungary. His grandson Charles Quint who succeeded him will be the heir of the house of Austria to which he unites Spain inherited from his mother, with its rich colonies of the New World and its dependencies such as Sicily, Sardinia, Naples, etc. . The meeting of the houses of Spain and Austria therefore actually dates from 1496, the date of the marriage of Philippe le Beau with Jeanne la Folle.. Subsequently, the marriages between Habsburgs of Vienna and Madrid became so numerous that the house of Spain will disappear definitively in favor of the house of Austria..