page_title: Maria Theresa of Spain
section_title: Death
hierarchical_section_title: Maria Theresa of Spain / Death
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Gedenktafel für Königin Marie Therese von Frankreich (ehemalige Infantin Maria Teresa von Spanien) in Saint-Denis
context_page_description: Maria Theresa of Spain, was by birth Infanta of Spain and Portugal and Archduchess of Austria as member of the Spanish branch of the House of Habsburg and by marriage Queen of France.
  Her marriage in 1660 to King Louis XIV, her cousin, was made with the purpose of ending the lengthy war between France and Spain. Famed for her virtue and piety, she saw five of her six children die in early childhood, and is frequently viewed as an object of pity in historical accounts of her husband's reign, since she was often neglected by the court.
  Without any political influence in the French court or government, she died at the early age of 44 from complications from an abscess on her arm.
  Her grandson Philip V inherited the Spanish throne in 1700 after the death of her younger half-brother, Charles II, and the War of the Spanish Succession, founding the Spanish branch of the House of Bourbon, which has reigned with some interruption until present time.
context_section_description: During the last week of July 1683, Maria Theresa fell ill and, as her illness worsened, her husband ordered for the sacraments to be kept nearby. She died a painful death on 30 July 1683, at Versailles. Upon her death, Louis XIV said: "This is the first chagrin she has ever given me."
  Of her six children, only one survived her, Louis, le Grand Dauphin, the oldest one, who died in 1711. One of her younger grandsons would eventually inherit her claim to the Spanish throne to become King Philip V of Spain in 1700.
caption: Marie-Thérèse's burial site at the Basilica of St Denis, where most of France's monarchs are buried
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