Observations on the Dead Emperor Collected from Annals and Laws

ADLZREITER at the year 1347. It is indeed not unjust that an Emperor who has been duly deposed should not be buried with the apparatus of an Emperor. Therefore, when Henry VII ordered the body of Adolph to be transferred to Speyer, although Albert I had prohibited it, he perhaps thought that he had not been deposed sufficiently legitimately. FUGGER at the year 1298.

Sometimes the dead are accustomed to be buried in parts.

It sometimes happens, or it is accepted custom, that the intestines are extracted and the entire body is not buried in the same place. HERODOTUS, Book II, narrates that the Egyptians, for the sake of embalming, drew out the brain of the dead through the nostrils with a curved iron tool, and dragged out the entire abdomen, and in Book IV, where he explains the burial of the Scythian Kings more broadly, we read these things: they take up the corpse with the body waxed, and the belly having been ripped open and cleaned, except for chopped-up sedge and frankincense and parsley seed and anise, having been sewn up again, they carry it on a wagon to another nation. Among the Romans, it was permitted to cut off a limb from those dead in war, so that funeral rites could be performed for that part. FESTUS under the word "member." LÜNIG in Theatrum Ceremoniale, Part II, ch. 18, no. 106, thinks that Robert d'Abrissel was the first to want his heart buried separately. Moreover, it is guarded by laws that burial is judged from the head, law 44 pr. de religios. If it helps anyone to know the various places in which the bodies and limbs of Emperors lie scattered, he should unroll the book of GOTTLIEB SLEVOGT on the burials of Emperors, Kings, and electors in monasteries and temples, although the tombs of certain Emperors cannot be indicated without doubt. We have received something singular about Maximilian I, that he did not want his intestines to be cast out, but his hair to be cut, and all his teeth to be pulled out, and he ordered them to be buried with hot coals. FUGGER at the year 1519.

What things are brought in with the dead?

The bodies of some Emperors of a more recent age rest in the crypt built in Vienna in the monastery of the Capuchin Fathers;