#elisabeth christine of brunswick

[tiny-librarian]

On April 19th, 1730, Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria died shortly after her 6th birthday. She was the youngest of four children born to Charles VI and Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick, and was their third daughter. 

She was buried in Tomb 23 in the Imperial Crypt, and the inscription on her final resting place reads (Loosely translated, if anyone’s better at Latin hit me up):

With love and in memory of the most longed-for daughter of Emperor Charles, the Most Serene Maria Amalia, Archduchess of Austria and Infanta of Spain, who was born on April 5, 1724, and completed her short life on April 19, 1730 

It finishes the inscription with a biblical quote from Psalm 37, Verse 18:

The blameless spend their days under the Lord’s care, and their inheritance will endure forever.

#maria amalia of austria #charles vi #elisabeth christine of brunswick-wolfenbüttel #house of habsburg #habsurg #austria #archduchess #imperial crypt #elisabeth christine of brunswick

[venicepearl]

Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (28 August 1691 – 21 December 1750) was Princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Queen of Bohemia and Hungary; and Archduchess of Austria by her marriage to Emperor Charles VI. She was renowned for her delicate beauty and also for being the mother of Empress Maria Theresa. She was the longest serving Holy Roman Empress.

#Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel #House Welf #xvii century #xviii century #people #portrait #paintings #art #arte

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1738 Workshop of Antoine Pesne - Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern

(Neue Schloss Bayreuth)

#1730s #18th century #women #Antoine Pesne

[royal-confessions]

“I have been reading lately the news on Ukraine etc., then went off-tangent with reading about Prussia (lol), then Frederick the Great, then landed on Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Crown Princess of Prussia, and simultaneously, Archduchess Luise of Austria. I find their stories quite pitiable (I realise there may be more like them). When men commit the same deeds as they do, they are forgiven or brushed off, but as women they are deemed incapable and submitted to indignities.” - Submitted by Anonymous

#frederick II #house of habsburg #House of Brunswick Bevern

[skurwoklej]

Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern would have loved mitski

#mitski #prussian nobility is my hyperfixation #i cry every fucking time #i see her portait its pathetic

[blog-marisamarko]

[sasa-chans-random-history]

January 13

[1334] Henry II of Castile, King of Castile and León (1369-79), born in Seville, Spain.

[1505] Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (1535-71), born in Cölln, Germany.

[1610] Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria by marriage to Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria, born in Graz, Duchy of Styria.

[1865] Princess Marie of Orléans, French Princess by birth and Danish Princess by marriage to Prince Valdemar, born in Ham, London, England.

[1938] Tord Grip, Swedish football player and manager, born in Ytterhogdal, Sweden.

[1939] Jacek Gmoch, Polish football player, trainer and manager, born in Pruszków, Poland.

[1947] Carles Rexach, Spanish-Catalan football winger and manager, born in Pedralbes, Barcelona, Spain.

[1960] Takis Lemonis, Greek footballer and manager, born in Colonus, Athens, Greece.

[1962] Trace Adkins, American country singer and actor, born in Sarepta, Louisiana, United States.

[1966] Patrick Dempsey, American actor, born in Lewiston, Maine, United States.

[1968] Mike Whitlow, English football defender and coach (U-18 at League Two club Mansfield Town), born in Northwich, England.

[1970] Frank Kooiman, Dutch football goalkeeper, born in Vlaardingen, Netherlands.

[1977] Orlando Bloom, English actor, born in Canterbury, England.

[1980] Akira Kaji, Japanese football defender, born in Minamiawaji, Hyogo, Japan.

[1980] Nils-Eric Johansson, Swedish football defender, born in Stockholm, Sweden.

[1989] Bryan Arguez, American soccer defensive midfielder, born in in Miami, Florida, United States.

[1990] Liam Hemsworth, Australian actor, born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

[703 AD] Empress Jitō, the 41st monarch of Japan, dies.

[858 AD] Æthelwulf, King of Wessex (839-858), dies.

[888 AD] Charles III, the Fat (Charles Le Gros) Emperor of the Carolingian Empire from 881-888, dies at about 49.

[1330] Frederick I (III), the Fair, Duke of Austria and Styria (from 1308) as well as the anti-King of Germany (1314-1325) and then the co-King until his death.

[1363] Meinhard III, Count of Gorizia-Tyrol, dies.

[1735] Princess Polyxena of Hesse-Rheinfels-Rotenburg, second wife of Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Piedmont, Queen of Sardinia (1730-35), dies at 28.

[1797] Duchess Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern, Queen of Prussia and Electress of Brandenburg as the wife of Frederik II the Great, dies at 81.

[1879] Henry the Navigator, Prince of the Netherlands, 3rd son of King William II of the Netherlands, dies at 58.

[1932] Sophia of Prussia, Queen Consort of the Hellenes (1913-17) and (1920-22) as the wife of Constantine I of Greece, dies at 61.

[2004] Harold Shipman (Doctor Death), British GP and prolific serial killer, commits suicide by hanging himself in his cell at HM Prison Wakefield at 57.

[2014] Bobby Collins, Scottish football midfielder and manager, dies at 82.

[2017] Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon, British photographer and ex-husband of Princess Margaret, dies at 86.

#on this day in history #on this day #otdih #otd #january #football history #football #birthdays #rest in peace #january 13 #carles rexach #trace adkins #patrick dempsey #orlando bloom #nils-eric johansson #bryan arguez #liam hemsworth #æthelwulf #charles iii the fat #charles le gros #polyxena #harold shipman #doctor death #antony armstrong-jones #lord snowdon

[aloneinstitute]

A imperatriz Elisabeth Christine de Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, mãe de Maria Theresa, a imperatriz que ordenou a construção do palácio. Retrato de corpo inteiro e em tamanho natural, obra do pintor da corte Jacob van Schuppen (1670-1751)

[oldfritz]

back at you with another niche uquiz, it’s time to find out which of ol’ fritz’s love interests you are. satiate a curiosity you never knew you had by finding out which of these poor fools, bamfs, and voltaire you’ll get!

#frederick the great #volaire #hans hermann von katte #algarotti #fredersdorf #countess orzelska #elisabeth christine of brunswick #elisabeth christine #old fritz #prussian shitposting #uquiz #my uquiz

[tiny-librarian]

On May 13th, 1717, at around seven-thirty in the morning at the Hofburg in Vienna, a daughter was born to Emperor Charles VI and his wife Elisabeth Christine. On the evening of the same day, the infant was baptized by the name of Maria Theresa Walburga Amalia Christine.

......

Preparations for the arrival of the child had been long underway. In January, subjects in Habsburg lands from Milan to Silesia had already begun gathering in their parish churches to pray for a happy birth and healthy sucessor. Processions were held to beseech the Mother of God for her benign intercession. By April, arrangements had been made for the newborn’s household and wet nurses engaged. Overall responsibility for the child, the office of aya, had been assigned to a high ranking matron at court. 

Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time - Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger

#maria theresa #charles vi #elisabeth christine of brunswick-wolfenbüttel #house of habsburg #austria #habsburg #18th century #long live the queue

[venicepearl]

Elisabeth Christine Ulrike of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (8 November 1746 – 18 February 1840), was Crown Princess of Prussia as the first wife of Crown Prince Frederick William, her cousin and the future king Frederick William II of Prussia.

#Elisabeth Christine Ulrike of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel #House Brunswick-Bevern #XVIII century #XIX century #people #portrait #paintings #art #arte

[ofgoldandfury]

As much as I love learning about Frederick the Great and empathize with him and his relationship with his horrible father, I have to say: He was a horrible husband to a woman who did nothing wrong. She bent over backwards just to keep him happy, do as he wanted her to do, and tried her best to be a good wife. Of course, Frederick's trauma caused by his childhood had a key role in his perspective of his wife, along with the disputed topic of his sexuality (I think he's homosexual too) so therefore his wife had no chance of ever having a proper friendship with her husband. Especially not when your father-in-law is an abusive maniac who saw you as nothing but a walking womb. But then again, that was the standard in those days. I hope reincarnation is a real thing because both Frederick and Elizabeth deserved greater things in life that the lives that were assigned to them in 17th century Prussia. So that the two of them can be happy with no memory of their past lives.

#I think I went too hard on this post but oh well #darcy speaks #Frederick the Great #Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern #17th century Prussia #european histoy #also Frederick William can suck my ass.

[germanaustriannoblesandroyals]

Common Royal & Noble Names: Elisabeth / Elizabeth

Elizabeth of Pomerania, Holy Roman Empress

Elisabeth “Isabeau” of Bavaria, The Queen of France

Elizabeth Stuart, The Queen of Bohemia & Electress Palatine

Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Holy Roman Empress

Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern, The Queen in & of Prussia

Elisabeth of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Princess of Brunswick-Lüneburg aka Grand Duchess Anna Leopoldovna of Russia

Princess Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, The Queen of Prussia

Elisabeth in Bavaria, The Empress of Austria & Apostolic Queen of Hungary

Princess Elisabeth of Wied, The Princess & Queen of Romania

Princess Elisabeth of Hesse & by Rhine, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia

#historyedit #women in history #period drama #perioddramaedit #historic women #Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary #Elisabeth in Bavaria #Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine #Princess Elisabeth of Hesse #Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia #Princess Elisabeth of Wied #Princess Elisabeth of Romania #Queen Elisabeth of Romania #Princess Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria #Queen Elisabeth Ludovika of Prussia #Elisabeth of Mecklenburg-Schwerin #Princess Elisabeth of Brunswick-Lüneburg #Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern #Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel #queen elisabeth christine of prussia #holy roman empress elisabeth christine #Holy Roman Empress Elizabeth #Elizabeth of Pomerania #Elizabeth Stuart #Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia #Electress Palatine Elizabeth #Elisabeth of Bavaria #queen elisabeth of france #queen isabeau of france #noble names

[redrosecut]

Favourite Period Drama Moments:

Empress Elisabeth Christine showes her dislike for her daughter Maria Theresia’s French mother-in-law, Élisabeth Charlotte d’Orléans, who is paying a visit to Viennese court.

in: Maria Theresia (2017) - Season 02, Episode 01

#perioddramaedit #period drama #Maria Theresia (2017) #Maria Theresia #Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel #House of Habsburg #House of Habsburg-Lorraine #Maria Theresia season 2 #Maria Theresa #Favourite Period Drama Moments

[isadomna]

Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1691 – 1750)  

She was renowned for her delicate beauty and also for being the mother of Empress Maria Theresa. She was the longest serving Holy Roman Empress.  Elisabeth Christine was the eldest daughter of Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and his wife Princess Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen. At age 13 Elisabeth Christine became engaged to the future Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, through negotiations between her ambitious grandfather, Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and Charles' sister-in-law, Empress Wilhelmina Amalia. However, the Lutheran Protestant bride opposed the marriage at first, since it involved her switching to Roman Catholicism, but finally she gave in. She was tutored in Catholicism by her mother-in-law, who introduced her to the Marian cult and made a pilgrimage with her to Mariazell in 1706. Prior to the wedding, she was forced to undergo a medical examination to prove her fertility by a doctor and the Jesuit confessor of Charles.

Aged sixteen at the time of her marriage, Elisabeth Christine was considered to be one of the most beautiful and learned noblewomen in Europe. Contemporary accounts pay particular attention to her pale complexion, blue eyes and magnificent blonde hair, which earned her the epithet of ‘Weisse Liesl’ (White Lizzy) in Vienna. Her admirers were particularly impressed by the allegedly perfect form of her hands and arms. At the time of the wedding, Charles was fighting for his claim to the Spanish throne against the French candidate Philip of Anjou, so he was living in Barcelona. Elisabeth Christine arrived in Spain in July 1708 and married Charles on 1 August in the church of Santa María del Mar, Barcelona. 

As Philip had already fathered a son, Elisabeth Christine was immediately pressured to produce a son. During her time in Spain, she had a long-term correspondence with her mother, which was reportedly a consolation for the continuous pressure to produce a son. In 1711, Charles left for Vienna to succeed as Holy Roman Emperor. He left Elisabeth Christine behind in Spain, appointing her as General Governor of Catalonia in his absence. She ruled Catalonia alone until 1713, when the war ended with Philip V recognized by all of Austria's allies. Her official role as regent had been to sustain the morale of Charles' Catalan subjects, but Martino claimed that she actually governed more effectively than Charles had during his Spanish reign. She then joined her husband in Austria.

Charles VI did not allow her any political influence what so ever after her arrival in Austria in 1713. However, she was described as intelligent and self-sufficient, and she established political connections among the ministers, especially Starhemberg, and she took some initiative to engage in politics on her own. In the 1720s, she appeared to have had some influence in the treaty with the Russian Tsar through her family connections in Northern Germany, and she allied herself with the court faction which opposed the plans to marry her daughters to members of the Spanish royal house.

Elisabeth Christine’s position at the Viennese court was made even more difficult by the fact that she remained childless for a long time. It was not until 1716, eight years after the wedding, that she gave birth to her first child, the long-awaited male heir, who was baptized Leopold. However, the infant died after only a few months, whereupon Charles donated a life-sized silver-gilt votive figure of his late son to the shrine to the Virgin Mary at Mariazell, petitioning for further male offspring. However, ‘only’ three daughters were to follow: Maria Theresa, Maria Anna, and Maria Amalia, who died in childhood.

The empress’ health was devastated by the different prescriptions as how to make her conceive another son. One of these was the injunction to drink a not inconsiderable quantity of red wine every day, resulting not in pregnancy but an addiction to alcohol. Elisabeth Christine was upset by her ‘failure’ to produce a male heir to the throne. The empress subsequently became a depressed, corpulent matron who suffered from rheumatism and difficulty in breathing. Charles had a mistress before the marriage, and he had a mistress, countess Althann, from 1711 onward, though Althann was not an official mistress and had been married to one of his ministers shortly before the arrival of the empress to make the relationship more discreet. In 1740, Charles VI died, leaving Elisabeth Christine a widow. As a widow, she never received the large income left to her in the will of Charles because of the crisis of the state, but her daughter Maria Theresa provided a comfortable existence for her court. The dowager empress died on 21 December 1750 and she was buried in the crypt of the Church of the Capuchin Friars in Vienna. (x) (x)

#Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel #Holy Roman Empress #Candidate Queen of Spain #Governor of Catalonia #Rival of Maria Luisa Gabriela of Savoy queen of Philip V #Mother of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria #Women in History

[widvile-blog]

Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Crown Princess of Prussia (8 November 1746 - 18 February 1840)

#elisabeth christine of brunswick-wolfenbüttel #elisabeth christine ulrike #crown princess of prussia #daughter of charles i duke of brunswick-wolfenbüttel #wife of frederick william ii of prussia #history #women in history #18th century #19th century #art