„Altem loblichem prauch nach“. Slezská holdovací cesta Maxmiliána II. z roku 1563

• Authors: Mlada Holá

Title variants

EN

„ALTEM LOBLICHEM PRAUCH NACH“. OATH-TAKING JOURNEY OF MAXIMILIAN II TO SILESIA FROM YEAR 1563

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The analytic study is dedicated to the Maximilian’s oath-taking journey to Breslau (Wrocław) in 1563. Attention is paid mainly to the preparation of the city for his arrival and individual phases of the actual solemn entrance (i.e. greeting by delegations, entering the city, welcoming the king by the bishop of Breslau and a solemn service in St. John Baptist’s Cathedral). Preserved sources revealed that the journey had some specific attributes. It was distinctly influenced by other rising Silesian estates, which were obliged (except for several exceptions) to pay oath to the king in Breslau, at the expense of the Breslau city council, which had hitherto held the leading role in accommodating the sovereign. The city councillors had to resign to their privileged positions during Maximilian’s welcoming: the first persons to address him were the bishop of Breslau, who held the office of the chief Silesian commissioner, Silesian dukes and other estate delegations. Maximilian’s oath-taking journey was unique, because it was undertaken when Ferdinand I was still in power. The promise of loyalty was still a matter of negotia-tions in Breslau, which led to a postponement of the oath by some estate owners and abbots of a number of monasteries in Silesia. This may have been one of the reasons why Maximilian (as opposed to Wladislaw Jagiello, Ferdinand I and other rulers until 1620) was not accommodated in patrician houses in the square, but in the so-called emperor’s castle. The study contains an edition of Maximilian’s letter to his father Ferdinand I, dated 27th December 1563. This document had been unknown to the previous research. It brings valuable information on the oath-taking journey (mainly the entry of the city and dealings with estate owners) and represents a unique testimony how Maximilian perceived the welcoming ceremony.

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Folia historica Bohemica
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 24
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 79-110

Contributors

author

Mlada Holá

• Katedra pomocných věd historických a archivního studia, Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy, nám. J. Palacha 1, 116 38 Praha 1, Czech Republic