!!!Pragmatische Sanktion

Pragmatic Sanction: Karl VI presented this edict to his 
councillors and ministers on April 19, 1713; it declared that all the 
Austrian hereditary lands should always remain united and laid down 
the line of succession of women (unlike the "Pactum mutuae 
successionis" of 1703). If there were no male Habsburg 
descendants, the hereditary lands should pass to the daughters of Karl 
and their successors, then to the daughters of Joseph I and then 
to the daughters of Leopold I. The Pragmatic Sanction was 
confirmed by the Landtage (diets) of the hereditary lands in 1720-1723 
and by the Hungarian Reichstag in 1722 and remained a constitutional 
law of the monarchy up to 1867. Between 1725 and 1730 most foreign 
powers also recognized the Pragmatic Sanction, but when Karl VI 
died in 1740, some powers did not adhere to their promises, which led 
to the War of the  Austrian Succession.

!Literature
G. Turba, Die Pragmatische Sanktion, 1913; W. Brauneder, 
Die Pragmatische Sanktion Das Grundgesetz der Monarchia Austriaca, in: 
K. Gutkas (ed.), Prinz Eugen und das barocke Oesterreich, 1985; 
Mittlg. des oesterreichischen Staatsarchivs, 1987.


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