par Cambrelin, Thomas 
Référence INAUGURATIONS AND CORONATIONS IN THE HABSBURG MONARCHY, 1700-1848, International Conference (15-16 septembre 2016: Ghent University)
Publication Non publié, 2016-09-16
Référence INAUGURATIONS AND CORONATIONS IN THE HABSBURG MONARCHY, 1700-1848, International Conference (15-16 septembre 2016: Ghent University)
Publication Non publié, 2016-09-16
Communication à un colloque
| Résumé : | This presentation will focus on the inauguration of Maria Theresa as Duchess of Brabant in 1744. In what aspect does this inauguration take on a key importance for the continuity of the sovereignty of the Austrian government in the Netherlands? That is the central question that will drive our communication. We are interested in the preparation of the inauguration of Maria Theresa itself, but also in the various moments that came to delay the new ruler in taking possession of the Duchy of Brabant, which proved to be a source of anxiety for the central government. Indeed, since 1740 and the death of Emperor Charles VI, the composite monarchy of the Austrian Habsburgs had been going through a troubled period. Both the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 and the legitimacy of Maria Theresa were being disputed. These times of crises, while revealing of the big political and economic structural weaknesses of the Habsburg structure, also allowed the provincial Estates to be inescapable interlocutors. Within the Southern Netherlands, the Duchy of Brabant seems to have been the keystone in exercising sovereignty in the whole of these off-centred territories. This small principality thwarted the vague centralist desires of the prince by imposing an oath of loyalty and to scrupulously observe the “Joyeuse entrée de Brabant” as framework for all things such as the delicate and crucial question of negotiating subsidies. The questions to be answered are how the inauguration in Brabant was organized, who were its actors, and which were the stakes for the various represented levels of power. |
