Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor
Holy Roman Emperor · Historical Figures · Lived 1697 to 1745 · aged 47
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Something wrong?He broke the Habsburg lock on the Holy Roman Empire - the first non-Habsburg emperor in three hundred years - then watched his own grip slip almost immediately.
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Carl Albrecht VII by workshop of George Desmarees, Münchner Residenz
Bavaria Allegory of the reign of Emperor Charles VII
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Allegorie op het Rooms-Duitse keizerschap, RP-P-1908-1380%2C_in_bronzo_argentato%2C_1716.jpg?width=1200)
Antonio montauti, medaglia di carlo alberto di baviera (poi imperatore), in bronzo argentato, 1716
Bal der Europese vorsten, 1742, RP-P-OB-50.814
Bal der Europese vorsten, 1742, RP-T-00-1593
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Born in 1697 to Bavaria's Elector Maximilian II Emanuel and a Polish princess, Charles inherited the electorate in 1726. He had married into the Habsburg fold four years earlier - his wife Maria Amalia was the niece of Emperor Charles VI - but when Charles VI died in 1740, the Bavarian elector seized Austria and claimed Bohemia. In 1742 he won the imperial election, ending centuries of Habsburg succession. The crown sat uneasily: he held Bohemia only two years, and his reign as emperor lasted just three. He died in January 1745, leaving seven children and a brief interruption in the dynasty he'd challenged.
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