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The 21 pages that link to Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, each with the reason it gives.

• Maria TheresaRelated: His Pragmatic Sanction sought to secure her succession.

• War of the Austrian SuccessionRelated: His lack of a surviving son made succession arrangements central to his final decades of rule.

• House of HabsburgBroader topic: His effort to secure succession for Maria Theresa shaped eighteenth-century dynastic politics.

• Pragmatic Sanction of 1713Related: As his only surviving sons died young, Charles sought to secure his daughters’ succession.

• Leopold I, Holy Roman EmperorBroader topic: His eventual succession exposed the consequences of Leopold’s male-line inheritance plans.

• War of the Polish SuccessionRelated: He supported Augustus III and directed Habsburg policy during the conflict.

• Nueva Planta decreesRelated: Many Aragonese territories backed his claim against Philip V.

• LiechtensteinRelated: He recognized the newly assembled territory as the Principality of Liechtenstein in 1719.

• Antonio VivaldiRelated: Vivaldi dedicated works to him and sought his patronage late in life.

• Prince Eugene of SavoyRelated: Eugene remained a powerful commander and statesman under Charles VI.

• Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748)Related: His death in 1740 triggered the succession dispute that preceded the war.

• TriesteRelated: His 1719 declaration of Trieste as a free port helped launch its commercial expansion.

• Austrian NetherlandsRelated: He inherited the southern Netherlands through the peace settlement ending the Spanish Succession war.

• Pietro MetastasioRelated: His court appointed Metastasio imperial poet in 1730.

• Archduke Charles of AustriaBroader topic: This is the title and reign under which Charles governed after abandoning his Spanish claim.

• Johann Bernhard Fischer von ErlachRelated: His court commissioned prominent works by Fischer von Erlach, including Karlskirche.

• Peace of UtrechtRelated: His refusal to accept the Utrecht terms meant separate treaties were needed to end the war with Austria.

• James StanhopeRelated: Stanhope served the allied cause of Charles’s earlier claim to Spain’s crown.

• Johann Lukas von HildebrandtRelated: Imperial patronage helped sustain the architectural culture in which Hildebrandt worked.

• War of the Quadruple AllianceRelated: His control of Spanish-held Italian territories made Austria a principal opponent of Spain.

• Austrian colonial policyRelated: His reign gave the company its strongest political backing.