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Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

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 Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor.[1] 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.[2]

Not to be confused with Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern or Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Crown Princess of Prussia.

Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

12 October 1711 – 20 October 1740

(1691-08-28)28 August 1691
Brunswick, Brunswick-Lüneburg

21 December 1750(1750-12-21) (aged 59)
Vienna, Austria

Imperial Crypt
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(m. 1708; died 1740)​

Welf

Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Princess Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen

Catholicism
prev. Lutheranism

(13 April 1716 – 4 November 1716), died in childhood.

Leopold Johann

(13 May 1717 – 29 November 1780), Holy Roman Empress, ruler of the Habsburg domains

Maria Theresa

(26 September 1718 – 16 December 1744), governor of the Austrian Netherlands for a few months before her death in childbirth

Maria Anna

Maria Amalia (5 April 1724 – 19 April 1730), died in childhood.

Order of Elizabeth and Theresa

Ingrao, Charles W.; Thomas, Andrew L. (2004). "Piety and Power: The Empresses-Consort of the High Baroque". In Campbell Orr, Clarissa (ed.). Queenship in Europe 1660-1815: The Role of the Consort. Cambridge University Press. pp. 107–130.  0-521-81422-7.

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