!!!Polnischer Thronfolgekrieg

Polish Succession, War of the, European war after the death of the 
Polish King August II (Friedrich August I, elector of 
Saxony) 1733-1735. While Austria and Russia supported his son 
Friedrich August II, France supported the candidacy of the former 
Polish King Stanislaw Leszczynski (father-in-law of Ludwig XV). 
Although the Saxon elector won, France and its allies, Spain and 
Sardinia, continued the war against Austria. Prince Eugène was 
able to stop the French advance at the River Rhine, but Austria was 
nevertheless defeated by Spain and France. In the preliminary peace of 
1735 and the peace of 1738 (both concluded in Vienna) it was decided 
that the Austrian-Russian candidate should remain king as 
August III, King of Poland, while King Stanislaw received 
Lorraine and the duchy of Bar, which was to go to France after his 
death. Franz Stephan of Lorraine (as Emperor Franz I), 
married to Maria Theresia since 1736, became grand duke of Tuscany, 
Austria lost Naples and Sicily to Spain and had to cede parts of 
Lombardy to Sardinia, but received Parma and Piacenza. France agreed 
to recognise the Pragmatic Sanction.

!Literature
A. Wandruszka, Oesterreich und Italien im 
18. Jahrhundert, 1963.


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