Treaty of Vienna (1725)
The Treaty of Vienna of April 30, 1725 was an alliance between the Kingdom of Spain and the Habsburg Empire that came about during the Congress of Cambrai .
On the Spanish side, the three individual contracts were brokered by the Dutch adventurer Juan Guillermo Riperdá and Juan Bautista de Orendáin . Emperor Charles VI. promised the Spanish King Philip V his support in regaining Gibraltar from Great Britain , in return the Spanish were the first to recognize the Pragmatic Sanction and to grant the Ostend Company trading privileges.
In addition, they agreed on marriage plans between the eldest son of Elisabeth Farnese , who later became King Charles III. , and Maria Theresia . In addition, the contract allowed Charles to take over the Duchy of Parma after the death of Antonio Farnese and the extinction of the Farnese line in 1731 .
The agreements were later expanded to include additional military components. In the following year, the Electorates of Saxony and Bavaria and the Russian Empire also joined the Treaty of Vienna.
In response to this alliance, the Herrenhausen Alliance was formed on September 3, 1725 between Great Britain, France and Brandenburg-Prussia . However, the latter was soon transferred to the emperor's camp in the Treaty of Berlin (1728) . The outbreak of an impending war between the two alliance systems (→ Anglo-Spanish War (1727–1729) ) did not, however, occur. The Vienna Treaty of 1731 finally dissolved the alliance constellations.
literature
- Charles Arnold-Baker: The Companion to British History , Longcross Press, London 1996, ISBN 0-415-26016-7 .
- Heinz Duchhardt : Balance of Power and Pentarchy. International Relations 1700–1785. Schöningh, Paderborn 1997 (= Handbook of the History of International Relations. Volume 4), ISBN 3-506-73724-4 .