Commentary on the Splendor of the Arch-Offices in the Coronations of Charles VII, Maria Amalia, and Francis

13) The Reversal of Imperial Majesty for the city of Aachen, regarding the Imperial coronation which took place at Frankfurt, and mutatis mutandis for the Chapter of Our Lady of Aachen, Frankfurt, Feb. 20, 1742. Read on p. 20, no. 7 in the additions to the Diary of the Coronation of Charles VII.
14) Frankfurt, Feb. 12, 1742, no. 12, p. 51, ibid.

cant, stating that the solemnities of the imperial inauguration, which now took place at Frankfurt but should have been celebrated at Aachen according to the Aurea Bulla Golden Bull, would at no time be a prejudice to this imperial city itself. They had received letters of the same tenor from the entire electoral college through the Chancellor of Mainz. Nothing remained to be done in the temple except the exit. Therefore, both ecclesiastical Electors, adorned in their electoral attire, and the first spokesmen of those absent, approached the Emperor again and proceeded to return to the town hall. Meanwhile, this path was laid with boards and covered with yellow, black, blue, and white cloth. The procession took place through it, and while it was underway, the bells of the towers were rung, and a hundred cannons in the moats saluted again. Among the primary men who preceded the Caesar after the secondary ones, I must mention the hereditary marshals of the Electors of Mainz and Cologne, carrying swords in sheaths with the points inverted. In the middle, Count Stadion was visible, bearing the silver staff of the imperial seals. The Hanoverian legate, Baron von Münchhausen, and the Palatine legate, von Wachtendonc, followed. After these were the Bavarian legate, Count Königsfeld; on the right, the Saxon legate, Count von Schoenberg; and on the left, the Brandenburg legate, Baron von Schwerin. These were followed by the Trier legate alone, Count Ingelheim. There followed three individuals substituted for the hereditary officials: Baron von Ulner carried the imperial globe, Baron von Bufec the scepter, and Count von Stolberg-Geudern the domestic crown. After these was Pappenheim with the imperial sword, accompanied by no one. With them leading in such order and honor, Emperor Charles VII, Roman-German, was present, wearing the august crown upon his head under a splendid canopy provided by the city senate, as before. To the right, somewhat further away, was the Elector of Mainz; to the left, the Elector of Cologne...