Treaty of Vienna (1731)
The Second Vienna Treaty of 1731 between the Habsburg Monarchy under Charles VI. and the Kingdom of Great Britain under King George II was signed on March 16, 1731 by Prince Eugen , Count Sinzendorf , Count Starhemberg and the British envoy Thomas Robinson . He ended a rapprochement between Great Britain and France that had existed since the first Treaty of Vienna (1725) and replaced it with an alliance between Great Britain and the Emperor. The British Prime Minister Robert Walpole and Prince Eugene had intensively promoted the new rapprochement between the Habsburg Empire and Great Britain by secret diplomatic channels since 1729. It was made more difficult by the expiry of the period under the Treaty of Seville (1729), according to which France and Great Britain were to declare war on the emperor if the emperor were to allow Spanish troops to march into the duchies of Parma and Tuscany (to which the Spanish claimed ) would not allow. France therefore urged the British to go to war (attack in the Austrian Netherlands). Another difficulty was the dislike of George II towards the emperor, since the emperor did not recognize the rights of George as German elector to Jülich and Kleve . Another danger loomed after France learned of the ongoing secret negotiations. On the British side, Chesterfield played a key role in the negotiations .
In the treaty, Great Britain recognized the Pragmatic Sanction (successor to Maria Theresa ) and achieved the dissolution of the Habsburg trading company in Ostend , which rivaled the British East India Company .
On July 22nd, 1731, the Spaniards also joined the treaty, with claims to power over the Duchy of Parma , whose duke died in January, for the later Spanish King Charles III. recognized.
literature
- Heinz Duchhardt : Balance of Power and Pentarchy - International Relations 1700–1785 , Verlag Schöningh, Paderborn 1997 (= ders. (Ed.): Handbook of the history of international relations , vol. 4). ISBN 3-506-73724-4
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nicholas Henderson : Prince Eugene. The noble knight , Heyne Verlag, 1982, ISBN 3-453-55052-8 . P. 371