STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 454, sig. 109-4/199 (damaged)

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7 high offices held in the cathedral, in the castle by the present representatives of the stands as king huldi- gen. The act of anointing and coronation was not carried out. The crown insignia were at that time probably kept in Vienna during the war storms. The coronation ceremony of Maria Theresia (1740 - 1780) in Prague, which followed the Hungarian king's crowning of the Lord, was accompanied by shiny lifts and festivities. The coonation itself was carried out on May 2nd, 1974, partly after brought here, partly according to changed ceremo- niel. The jewels and the coronation coat were found in a chamber of the Prague Castle and were transferred to the St. Wenceslas Chapel on the day of coroning, the sword of St. wenceslaus was carried forward to the queen. The coronations coat was laid on the mistress in the St Wencetlas Chapel. In the dome, Maria Theresia initially stepped bare-headed, and then, before the coronation, set up the Habsburg crown of the house and went to the main altar, where the crowning took place in the usual way. The jewels were carried by national dignitaries in the course of the procession. In front of the jewels, flags, a gilded and a silver-plated loaf of bread and 2 barrels of wine were carried. Emperor Joseph II. After his death, the Bohemian Estates demanded his successor Leopold II (1790 - 1793), to crown himself as king and to have the small crowns from the Vienna Treasury taken to Prague for permanent detention. Leopold consented both to the restoration of the crown to the country of Bohemia, and to his crony, which on 6 July 1790 was the first to be taken to the Kingdom of Bohemia. The coronation ceremony of Queen Maria Ludowika was celebrated on September 12, 179l. The son and successor of Francis I (1792 - 1835) was born on August 9, 1962 and his wife Maria Theresia on the