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The term French–Habsburg rivalry (French: ... [10] – was a conflict between Louis XIV of France and a European coalition of Austria, the Holy Roman Empire, the ...
Austria, ruled by the Habsburg Emperor Ferdinand III, ... Louis XIV of France: 12. Philip II of Spain [156] 6. Philip III of Spain [153] 13. Anna of Austria [156] 3.
Seized by France in 1477, but returned to Charles the Bold's Habsburg heirs in 1493. [24] Bailiwick of Mâcon: John the Fearless: 1417 Seized by force from the French crown, [29] [30] confirmed by Treaty of Arras 1435. [31] Annexed by Louis XI in 1477. [32] County of Tonnerre: 1419 Conquest from Louis de Chalons confirmed by royal grant in 1419 ...
Habsburg victories along the Danube at Buda in September 1686, [44] and Mohács a year later [45] had convinced the French that the Emperor, in alliance with Spain and William of Orange, would soon turn his attention towards France and retake what had recently been won by Louis's military intimidation. [46]
The War of the Burgundian Succession [1] took place from 1477 to 1482 [2] (or 1493 according to some historians [3]), immediately following the Burgundian Wars.At stake was the partition of the Burgundian hereditary lands between the Kingdom of France and the House of Habsburg, after Duke Charles the Bold had perished in the Battle of Nancy on 5 January 1477.
She was betrothed to King Louis XIII of France in 1612 and they married three years later. The two had a difficult marital relationship, exacerbated by her miscarriages and the anti- Habsburg stance of Louis' first minister, Cardinal Richelieu .
The two main candidates were the Austrian Habsburg Archduke Charles, and 16-year-old Philip of Anjou, grandson of Charles' half-sister Maria Theresa and Louis XIV of France. Shortly before his death in November 1700, Charles named Philip his heir, but the acquisition of an undivided Spanish Empire by either France or Austria threatened the ...
Its pretext was the right of Maria Theresa to succeed her father, Emperor Charles VI, as ruler of the Habsburg monarchy. France, Prussia, and Bavaria saw it as an opportunity to challenge Habsburg power, while Maria Theresa was backed by Britain, the Dutch Republic, and Hanover, collectively known as the Pragmatic Allies.