Folia Historica 31. (Budapest, 2016)

I. KÖSZÖNTJÜK A 80 ÉVES T. NÉMETH ANNAMÁRIÁT - Ridovics Anna: III. Károly pozsonyi koronázási érmei nyomán készített delfti fajansz tányérok

Constantia et Fortitudine - the message of the coronation coins

and the dishes

The article analyses the message of the dishes' decoration in the context of the regal representation, what kind of content is expressed by the iconography of the art of the coronation medals. The impresa (Constantia et Fordtitudine) and the globe with the map of Europe focusing on Hispania and Italy together with a part of Africa can be found in the collection of symbols for soverign representation since the coronation in Frankfurt 1711. The message of the coins, the iconography was constracted after the plans, instructions of the famous scholar of the Viennese court Carl Gustav Heraeus (1671-1725/1730) (Medallien- und Antikvitäten Inspektor). Later he published works about this interpretations in Wien (1716) and in Nürnberg (1721). Constancy and valour are the main coloumnes of the reign, peace and victory in the wars. The globe remembers the worldpower of his ancestor, Charles V (1500-1558) Holy Roman Emperor and king of Spain. He was blood Habsburg forebear and ideal of Charles VI with the same name. He felt himself his legitimate inheritor as the member of the Habsburg kin. The globe circuled by clouds expressing the desired world empire. His reign was so huge that the sun never set there.

Archduke Charles and the War of the Spanish Succession

Archduke Charles was the son of the Emperor Leopold I (1640-1705) and Princess Ele- onor Magdalene of Neuburg (1655-1720). After the death of the Habsburg Charles II, king of Spain (1665-1700) brouk out the war of Spanish succession between the House of Habsburg and the French Bourbons (1701-1714). The Kingdom of Portugal, Kingdom of England and the majority of the Holy Roman Empire endorsed Charles's candidature against Philip, Duke of Anjou (1683-1746), Louis XIV of France's grandson. Archduke Charles declared himsef King of Spain with their support in 1703 and he was elected in 1706. He lived in Spain as Charles III until the death of his brother, Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor. Then he returned to Vienna to assume the imperial crown in 1711 in Frankfurt. But in this case Habsburg power could be too strong unifying the Habsburg Austria and Habsburg Spain, so the earlier supporters, Kingdom of Great Britain and Dutch Republic stepped out from this coalition, and the war culminated with the Treaties of Utrecht and Rastatt. Peace Treaty negotiations began on 29th of January 1712 in Utrecht, close to Delft. On 22th of May 1712 Charles was coronated as Charles III, King of Hungary in Pozsony. The Treaty was undersigned on 11th of April 1713 between France and England, 13th of July 1713 between Spanish Kingdom and Kingdom of Great Britain. The Spanish king, Philipp V declared a resignation statment about the French thron. Charles VI refused to make peace at the Utrecht conference along with the other allies. He followed the war with France and hoped to save the throne of Spain for himself. But at the end he had to sign the Peace Treaty in Rastatt (6th of March 1714) as Archduke of Austria and later in Baden (Sept of 1714) as a Holy Roman Empire.

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