Maria Theresa - Holy Roman Empress

[@zanaugustincic7682]

I'm from Slovenia (and I would argue with AM that it was indeed the Slovenes who were perhaps the most loyal Habsburg subjects up until 1917 - in response to what he said during the recently reuploaded stream with AA on the fall of Austria-Hungary). When kids complain about why they have to go to school, you might still hear a parent say "well say thanks to Maria Theresia for that". She is remembered less than FJI, yet nevertheless remembered in a positive manner, as well as her reforms. More so than Joseph II.

[@Cold444W]

An extremely underrated monarch, one of if not my favorite Habsburg and top 3 monarchs the Habsburgs had, specially being the only mayor monarch of the "enlightened absolutist" era which was an actual traditionalist (the only other similar monarch would have been George III which was not an absolutist due to the realities of Britain). One can see this in her actions which really barely tried to curtail most church influence compared to the rest of the monarchs of the age, or how she was for example one if not almost the only grand monarch of the age which did not opress or expulse the jesuits, only really getting them out of government after the pope himself declared for it in 1774. She is also one of those remarkable and sadly few rulers which were able to give be very effective conservative rulers, not destroying nor denigrating it's past institutions and traditions while still being able to reform them very successfully making them able to carry their own weight and capable to stand against the other modernizing european powers (and no matter how conservative one is, reform is always necessary to an extent, you can even see this with the Catholic church which for it's whole history has continuously evolved catiously). She was also a very good and faithful woman, mother and wife, 16 children always loyal to her husband while also caring deeply for her subjects and doing multiple actions and reforms to improve the life of the actual peasant, all starting from one of the worst initial positions a Habsburg monarch xould start with due to her almost inconceivably incompetent father. "They condemn the past for its ignorance and prejudice, while knowing nothing at all about the past and not much more about the present" Maria Theresa

[@knightspearhead5718]

I love these long format videos

[@davycrockett1112]

She truly embraced the fullness of feminine power to preserve her family and people

[@mayanbrian12]

Great video ❤

[@aprince1250]

Another great video, AM.

[@aprince1250]

Have you, or will you, ever make a video about Eugene of Savoy?

[@vorynrosethorn903]

It seems like we have a good few new, and it seems quite young, watchers commenting, let's try and be patient with them and educate them as they are speaking out of a deficit of knowledge and a passion for discussion rather than any attempt to troll. We were all brought up within the current paradigm and we have to remember that when we encounter people who are still within it, that they are here at all is a good thing, it will take some time for them to understand the perspective of our civilisation as it existed before the current order, it took us all years, let's not be impatient. It's better to explain than to dogpile.

[@Belgisch_Monarchist1831]

She is one of my favorite monarchs in history a great pious and strong woman

[@johnnotrealname8168]

Pious is putting it strongly.

[@Belgisch_Monarchist1831]

@@johnnotrealname8168 why wouldn’t you say she’s pious then maybe not all of her actions as sovereign were but she certainly was privately a very pious Christian

[@Tragantar1310]

i am genuinely confused that there are catholic royalists who like that woman. everything from how she got on the throne to she ruled is un german and un christian. or to use a meme: " EWWWWW brother, EWWWWWWWWWWW"

[@Belgisch_Monarchist1831]

@Tragantar1310 that's such a narrow-minded view, though it's inspiring to see a woman in a time in which their power was always so limited do great things in her reign and un monarchist and un german is a weird way to put it I thinks exemplary behavior

[@johnnotrealname8168]

@@Belgisch_Monarchist1831 Julius Kambarage Nyerere was a better Catholic than she was.

[@msmith1890]

AM posts a video on a Habsburg and within 24 hours Eduard von Habsburg posts a video on his channel.

[@johnnotrealname8168]

First and only 3 minutes late. Her administrative reforms were amazing however her attacks on the Catholic Church and refusal to condemn freemasonry is barbaric.

[@DarthDread-oh2ne]

How are you doing your majesty ? I feel sorry For the daughters of Joseph the first of the Holy Roman Empire, because they technically had a greater claim to the throne.

[@johnnotrealname8168]

@@DarthDread-oh2ne I merely have his profile picture. I would not dare role-play. I do understand but they married outside. It would have ruined the dynasty and probably the East where the ottomans threatened.

[@DarthDread-oh2ne]

Yeah because I don’t see the house of Wettin changing their name to Habsburg-Wettin.

[@Tragantar1310]

@@DarthDread-oh2ne they were women. they had no buisness beeing near the throne to begin with.

[@Belgisch_Monarchist1831]

@Tragantar1310 what an awful thing to say how can you speak so badly about women the blessed Virgin would be ashamed

[@msmith1890]

If Empress Maria was the heir, why was she not prepared to rule Austria?

[@jardon8636]

it would do injustice to contemparies, not to mention fredich grosse, king fredrick the great of prussia & catherine romanov : empress of russia... or even george III ...

[@wasfureinbua]

Very good video

[@jamesca1232142]

interesting. This video gave me a new perspective on Maria Theresa. Before it was hard not to view her as just a loser, the one who lost Silesia. But in the context of a Hapsburg dynasty on the verge of total dissolution, this is too reductive. I have been reading "The Grand Strategy of the Hapsburg Empire" by Wess Mitchell. I wonder what you think about this book, its written by an American Neocon, but some of its contents are interesting, especially the Hapsburg focus on maps , and explaining how this empire had internal borders that made its economics far more complicated than anywhere else, even America with its States. In some ways it was the final feudal realm. For good and ill.

[@sumairshirazi]

All thanks to the men she was able to stay in power.

[@thekinghass]

She is the only respectable modern age empress sorry Victoria fans

[@AmericanImperium1776]

@@thekinghass What’s wrong with Victoria?

[@eg310]

@@AmericanImperium1776 everything from her neglecting her duties for some 30 or more years when her husband died to basically surrendering all royal power without putting a fight and worst of all not teaching her son how to rule

[@Gaius_Claudius]

Had you said she's the most respectable, rather than only, I'd have agreed. Victoria certainly deserves our respect as well.

[@eg310]

@@Gaius_Claudius for living long perhaps i can concede that but her conduct was not nice

[@thekinghass]

@@Gaius_Claudius well to degree yes but I can’t help but fell she also wasted a chance for the royal family to have real power she actually had the most power when she visited any other kingdom or empire over her own she could probably convince whillem the second more then her won prime minster . But yeah you are right

[@kaloarepo288]

Should really be called the house of Habsburg-Lorraine as Maria Theresa's husband Francis of Lorraine was co ruler with her and their descendants ruled Austria and other associated lands like Tuscany. After all in Britain with queen Victoria who had a similar situation with prince Albert of Saxe Coburg and Gotha the British royals came to be known as the Saxe Coburgs and stopped being Victoria's family of Guelph -Hanover until name change to Windsor.

[@Republikaner1944]

Mater castrorum.

[@theshambler6814]

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[@AmericanImperium1776]

From what I know of her, she sounds like a mid Monarch. Nowhere near the status of Frederick the Great, Charles V, Franz Joseph, or even Blessed Karl. I also believe Monarchs of her era presided over the age of “Enlightened Absolutism and increased Centralization, which I’m not a fan of. Am I a Blessed Karl Glazer? You’re Goddamn Right.

[@johnnotrealname8168]

Frederick the Great was terrible and Charles V dropped the ball. She centralised in the sense she brought a bureaucracy into being but other than that she could not.

[@AmericanImperium1776]

@@johnnotrealname8168 Like I said, I’m still learning.

[@Tragantar1310]

Frederick the Great would have been a splendid emperor, too bad he was a heretic

[@AmericanImperium1776]

@@Tragantar1310 Yeah, still, his military accomplishments were great and he was a lover of the arts and reformed the bureaucracy.

[@Tragantar1310]

@@AmericanImperium1776 great guy all arround

[@Tragantar1310]

my least favorite holy roman emperor. she should have never been empress

[@johnnotrealname8168]

You do realise she was never Holy Roman Emperor right?

[@Tragantar1310]

@@johnnotrealname8168 technically yes. the pragmatic sanction itself is the problem

[@tuckerbugeater]

@@Tragantar1310 Why a holy roman empire anyways?

[@hazchemel]

It seemed like a good idea, at the time hahaha. ​@@tuckerbugeaterokay, but why not the HRE? Since it was real, it existed in time and space, for about a thousand years surely, to ask why not makes more sense.

[@hazchemel]

​@@tuckerbugeaterThinking about the what are now integral lands of Germany, I can't see a better political, cultural, social arrangement than was enjoyed by them within the Empire. The western side would have been subsumed by France or, consolidated with the house of Burgundy.The more northern, central and eastern areas of HRE probably would have been somewhat like they actually were, but with a great deal more neighbourly warfare and harassment. Their continued existence hangs from the slender branch of a small and vulnerable self rule. Consider the protection, cooperation, respect, and opportunities afforded a thousand tiny, small, medium and large lay and clerical principalities.