European Monarch. She was the youngest of four daughters of Johann Friedrich of Brunswick-Luneburg-Calenberg, Duke of Hanover and Benedikte Henriette of Simmern. She was raised in Maubuisson Abbey by her grandfather's sister Louise Hollandine, In 1699 she married Josef I and upon the marriage became the Holy Roman Empress, Queen of the Germans, Queen of Hungary, Queen of Bohemia, Archduchess consort of Austria. She gave birth to three children in the first two years of their marriage. In 1704, she was infected with a venereal disease by her husband, which caused her to be unable to bear more children. After her husband's death in 1711, she tried to secure her daughter's right of succession to the throne. Usually, only males had the right to succession to the throne. Her husband's successor and brother, Charles VI, accepted her reasoning but favored his own daughters over his nieces, thus dismissing her daughters from the path to the throne. After her youngest daughter, Amalia Maria, was married, she left the court and retired to the Salesian Convent, which she had founded in 1717. During the struggle over the succession of Charles VI, she shortly returned to the public to support her son-in-law, Karl Albrecht of Bavaria, later Charles VII, in his pursuit of the Imperial Crown, but soon retired again. Upon her death, her heart was laid to rest at her husband's feet while her body was placed under the high altar of the Salesian Convent.
European Monarch. She was the youngest of four daughters of Johann Friedrich of Brunswick-Luneburg-Calenberg, Duke of Hanover and Benedikte Henriette of Simmern. She was raised in Maubuisson Abbey by her grandfather's sister Louise Hollandine, In 1699 she married Josef I and upon the marriage became the Holy Roman Empress, Queen of the Germans, Queen of Hungary, Queen of Bohemia, Archduchess consort of Austria. She gave birth to three children in the first two years of their marriage. In 1704, she was infected with a venereal disease by her husband, which caused her to be unable to bear more children. After her husband's death in 1711, she tried to secure her daughter's right of succession to the throne. Usually, only males had the right to succession to the throne. Her husband's successor and brother, Charles VI, accepted her reasoning but favored his own daughters over his nieces, thus dismissing her daughters from the path to the throne. After her youngest daughter, Amalia Maria, was married, she left the court and retired to the Salesian Convent, which she had founded in 1717. During the struggle over the succession of Charles VI, she shortly returned to the public to support her son-in-law, Karl Albrecht of Bavaria, later Charles VII, in his pursuit of the Imperial Crown, but soon retired again. Upon her death, her heart was laid to rest at her husband's feet while her body was placed under the high altar of the Salesian Convent.
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