Talk: War of the Austrian Succession

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This article is too long for me to edit without truncating it, but it badly needs editing.

The first paragraph: "When Maria Theresa of Austria succeded her father Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor in the Holy Roman Empire in 1740 in accordance with the pragmaticae sanctiones" is simply wrong.

1. Maria Theresa did NOT succeed her father in the HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE. She succeeded her father in his Habsburg lands, which is not the same thing.
2. The Emperor of the HRE was ELECTED: it was not a hereditary title, and Maria Theresa was an empress by MARRIAGE (when her husband was elected emperor in 1745), not by INHERITANCE (at her father's death in 1740) or by her own ELECTION. She was not an Empress in her own right.
3. The war OF AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION was about the AUSTRIAN lands, not the Imperial title.
4. The Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 governed the succession to the Hapsburg dominions (but not to the imperial dignity, which was elective).

Something along the lines of: "When Maria Theresa of Austria succeEded her father Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor in his Hapsburg dominions in 1740 in accordance with the Pragmatic Sanction..." would be more correct. -- Someone else 23:40 Mar 22, 2003 (UTC)

I made som minor changes to adress formatting concerns, but I agree that the article is in need of editing and it is probably unavoidable to break it up in to smaller parts. -- Mic 10:07 Apr 14, 2003 (UTC)

Shouldn't this article be somehow interlinked with the one on Silesian Wars? Halibutt 07:17, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)