English Translation

Vladislav II. Jagello (147l - 1516) was also crowned in the usual manner on August 22nd in 471. Ludwig (1516 - 1526), the son of Vladislaw Jagellos received the crown on May 1, 1509 as a four-year-old boy. A new coronation of Lud- wig took place only upon his accession to the government on May 9th in 1522. His wife Maria von Habsburg was crowned the following day. Here, as well as in the coronation of the successor Ferdinand I. v. Habsburg_(1526 - 1564), there were disputes between the representatives of the provinces, who disputed the privilege of asking the crown insignia in the solemn elevation. The king carried the crown himself on the head and the scepter and the imperial apple in his hand. The following day, his wife Anna, daughter of Vladislav II Jagello, was crowned. Particularly solemn was the coronation of the son Ferdinand I, Maximillian II (as Bohemian King I) (1564-1576) in the year l562 and his wife Maria in the presence of Ferdinand I. At the funeral of Maximilian II, who had been transferred from Regensburg to Prág, the Hungarian, the Bohemian and the German imperial miniods were carried in marriage, similar to that of Ferdinand I. Rudolf II (1576 - 1612), the son of Maximilian, was crowned king in the lifetime of his father in 1575. After the end of the disputes between Rudolf II. and his brother Matthias and after Rudolf's abdication, Matthias (1612 - 1619) was crowned with predominantly military pomp on 23 May l6ll. His wife, the Empress Anna, was to be crowned on