In this ambitious book, Mr. Brewer-Ward utilizes an easy-to-follow outline arrangement to trace the thousands of royal descendants of Maria Theresia and Franz I. Mr Brewer-Ward devotes an entire chapter to the lines of each of the nine children or grandchildren of Maria Theresia who had progeny, tracing their descent to the present day. All persons are identified according to both the name and title by which they are best known (in boldface) and all other names and secondary titles, their dates and places of birth and death, dates of marriage, names of spouses and children, and so on.
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This review is from: The House of Habsburg: A Genealogy of the Descendants of Empress Maria Theresia (Paperback)
The House of Habsburg is one of the oldest and geographically broadest in Europe, having had a part in the reigning dynasties of nearly every Continental state. But the family nearly became extinct in the male line until Emperor Charles VI promulgated the Pragmatic Sanction, enabling his daughter, Maria Theresia, to succeed him in all his estates and titles. Bavaria contested this maneuver but lost the War of the Austrian Succession, and Maria Theresia's demonstrated abilities in diplomatic and military affairs -- and the election of her husband, Franz I, to be Holy Roman Emperor -- cemented her position. Moreover, she produced sixteen children, most of whom married well and three of whom have descendants. This volume is a straightforward outline of those descents, one major line per chapter, with no narrative text at all. The compiler cites fewer than twenty secondary sources, so there's no original research here, either (and there are no specific footnotes). It's primary use, therefore, is as a ready reference source for the families covered, but even that utility is somewhat limited by the lack of an index.
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