With no living male heirs, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_VI,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" id="mwUQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor">Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor</a>, issues the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatic_Sanction_of_1713" id="mwUg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Pragmatic Sanction of 1713">Pragmatic Sanction of 1713</a> to ensure that <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habsburg" id="mwUw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Habsburg">Habsburg</a> lands and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habsburg_monarchy" id="mwVA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Habsburg monarchy">Austrian throne</a> would be inheritable by a female; his daughter and successor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Theresa" id="mwVQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Maria Theresa">Maria Theresa</a>, was not born until 1717.<sup about="#mwt43" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"}}' id="cite_ref-7" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./April_19#cite_note-7" id="mwVg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 7;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwVw">[7]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"><cite about="#mwt40" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFThomas_Carlyle1859">Thomas Carlyle (1859). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=KVUuAAAAMAAJ&amp;pg=PA420" id="mwBYE" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBYI">History of Friedrich the Second, Called Frederick the Great</i></a>. Harper &amp; Brothers. p.<span id="mwBYM" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>420.</cite><span about="#mwt40" class="Z3988" id="mwBYQ" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=History+of+Friedrich+the+Second%2C+Called+Frederick+the+Great&amp;rft.pages=420&amp;rft.pub=Harper+%26+Brothers&amp;rft.date=1859&amp;rft.au=Thomas+Carlyle&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DKVUuAAAAMAAJ%26pg%3DPA420&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AApril+19"></span></span>