Volba a korunovace Karla VI. římským císařem v roce 1711

• Authors: Jiří Kubeš

Title variants

EN

The Election and Coronation of Charles VI as Holy Roman Emperor in 1711

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Based on the existing literature, contemporary printed materials and especially primary sources from the Bohemian Court Chancellary and the Family Archives of the Windisch- Grätz family, the author attempts, for the first time ever in a Czech historiography to deal comprehensively with the election and coronation of Charles VI in 1711. This text has two main purposes. Primarily, it involves a more comprehensive revisiting of the events after the death of Emperor Joseph I (April) in Vienna at the court of the Regent Empress dowager Eleonora Magdalena, at the court of Charles III of Spain in Barcelona, or possibly also in Milan, yet, especially in Frankfurt am Main. There, the pre-electoral negotiations, attended by the Bohemian electoral embassy took place, during which an electoral capitulation was drafted after approximately two months and the proper ceremonial election of Charles as King of the Romans (October) took place. Thereafter, the imperial coronation followed, yet again after an interval of two months (December). In second part, the author researches the events of 1711 in a wider context and compares them with preceding elections and coronations. He attempts to discover to what degree these processes were similar, or to what extent they differed from one another and to establish the reasons why deviations from traditions, which people in the Early Modern Ages held so dear, occurred; who benefited from these innovations and how they influenced the functioning of the Empire as a whole.

Keywords

EN

Charles VI; Frankfurt am Main; 18th century; the Holy Roman Empire; Emperor; elections; coronation, electors

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český časopis historický (The Czech Historical Review)
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 111
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 805-841

Contributors

author

Jiří Kubeš

• Ústav historických věd, Fakulta filozofická Univerzity Pardubice, Studentská 84, 532 10 Pardubice, Czech Republic