When Princess Terese Kunegunda Sobieska of Poland was born on 4 March 1676, in Warsaw, Masovia, Poland, her father, John Sobieski III, was 46 and her mother, Queen Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien, was 34. She married Maximilian II. Emanuel Kurfürst von Bayern on 2 January 1695, in Wesel, Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. They were the parents of at least 11 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 10 March 1730, in Venice, Venice, Veneto, Italy, at the age of 54, and was buried in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
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The Battle of Vienna was a conflict that occurred on September 12, 1683, at Kahlenberg Mountain. The battle was particularly significant because the Holy Roman Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth cooperated for the first time in order to defeat the Ottoman Empire. The battle ended with the Siege of Vienna being lifted and the Ottomans suffering very heavy losses.
The treaty of Karlowitz was a peace settlement signed on January 26, 1699, between the Holy League (comprised of Austria, Venice, Russia, and Poland) and the Ottoman Empire. This ended the long-running Great Turkish War that had started in 1683. The document was drafted following a two-month congress between all involved parties.
The Three Partitions of Poland, Russia, Prussia and Austria divide Poland amongst themselves.
German: possibly a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman, from orfe, a species of freshwater fish. Alternatively, a habitational name from Urff near Kassel, formerly Orpha.
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