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Leopold was born on May 5, 1747 in Vienna. He was a son of Emperor Francis I and his wife, Empress Maria Theresa, thus the brother of Marie Antoinette.
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Leopold was born on May 5, 1747 in Vienna. He was a son of Emperor Francis I and his wife, Empress Maria Theresa, thus the brother of Marie Antoinette.
He was at first educated for the priesthood.
Leopold succeeded his father as duke of Tuscany when his eldest brother became emperor as Joseph II in 1765.
Like Joseph, Leopold was influenced by the ideas of the Enlightenment and was determined to construct an efficient state apparatus at the expense of feudal interests.
During his 25-year reign over the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, he rationalized his states’ taxation and tariff systems and encouraged the development of representative institutions.
After Joseph II died in February 1790, Leopold was elected emperor (and also became king of Hungary and archduke of Austria).
Although he dismantled some of the centralized state machinery that Joseph had set up in the Habsburg domains, he kept in force Joseph’s decrees that emancipated the peasantry and granted increased religious liberty to non-Catholics.
At first Leopold reacted cautiously to the explosive situation created in Europe by the French Revolution.
In August 1791, however, he joined with the Prussians in issuing the Declaration of Pillnitz, appealing to the European sovereigns to use force to assure the maintenance of monarchical government in France.
Austria and Prussia concluded a defensive alliance in February 1792, but Leopold died less than two months before France declared war on Austria.
He died suddenly in Vienna, in March 1792, although some claimed he was poisoned or secretly murdered.
Leopold II was a Holy Roman emperor from 1790 to 1792, one of the most capable of the 18th-century reformist rulers known as the “enlightened despots. ”
Mozart's opera La clemenza di Tito was commissioned by the Estates of Bohemia for the festivities that accompanied Leopold's coronation as king of Bohemia in Prague on 6 September 1791.
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Leopold was a moderate proponent of enlightened absolutism.
In 1753, he was engaged to Maria Beatrice d'Este, heiress to the Duchy of Modena. The marriage never materialised; Maria Beatrice instead married Leopold's brother, Archduke Ferdinand.
On August 5, 1764 he married Maria Luisa of Spain, daughter of Charles III of Spain and Maria Amalia of Saxony.
Like his parents before him, Leopold had sixteen children, the eldest of his eight sons being his successor, Emperor Francis II. Some of his other sons were prominent personages in their day. Among them were: Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany; Archduke Charles of Austria, a celebrated soldier; Archduke Johann of Austria, also a soldier; Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary; and Archduke Rainer, Viceroy of Lombardy-Venetia.
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Leopold II, By the Grace of God, Holy Roman Emperor; King of Germany, Hungary, Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia, Galicia and Lodomeria, Rama, Serbia, Cumania and Bulgaria; Archduke of Austria; Duke of Burgundy, Lorraine, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, Grand Duke of Etruria; Grand Prince of Transylvania; Margrave of Moravia, Prince of Brabant, Limburg, Luxembourg, Geldern, Württemberg, Upper and Lower Silesia, Milan, Mantua, Parma, Piacenza, Guastalla, Auschwitz and Zatoria, Calabria, Bar, Ferrete and Teschen; Lord of Svevia and Charleville; Count of Habsburg, Flanders, Hannonia, Kyburg, Gorizia, Gradisca; Margrave of Burgau, Upper and Lower Lusatia, Pont-a-Mousson and Nomenum, Count of Provinces of Namur, Valdemons, Albimons, Count of Zütphen, Sarverda, Salma and Falkenstein, Lord of the Wend Margravate and Mechelen, etc.
