Egy új együttműködés kezdete; Az 1622. évi soproni koronázó országgyűlés - Annales Archivi Soproniensis 1. (Sopron-Budapest, 2014)

A diéta és a koronázás színhelye: Sopron - Tóth Gergely: Az 1622. évi soproni címerbővítés. Előzmények, utóélet, szövegközlés és fordítás

A% 1622. évi soproni címerbővítés

Augmentation of Sopron’s Coat of Arms in 1622 History, Afterlife, Text and Translation

Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II, King of Hungary, in 1622 held a Diet in Sopron, at which the coronation of Empress Eleonora as Hungarian queen took place as well. Shortly after the coronation, on 4th August Ferdinand II renewed and augmented Sopron city's coat of arms, including the imperial double-headed eagle above the crest. Previous research interpreted the crest augmentation as a warning from Ferdinand to the city of Sopron to be loyal to the emperor - as in the previous years it was occupied by the troops of Gábor Bethlen, Prince of Transylvania —, furthermore as a display of his ownership over the city. This study seeks to demonstrate that this approach is erroneous and anachronistic. The coat of arms or the crest augmentation were usually applied for in the early modern Hungary, and the applicants designed their own coats of arms. In Sopron’s case the applicant and the initiator was probably the mayor, Kristóf Lackner, who had been loyal to the emperor in his whole life, and it is clear from his freshly published autobiography as well as from other sources that he had used the imperial double-headed eagle and the city’s coat of arms very often in his works and also in the town’s representation. At the end of the study I publish the original text and the Hungarian translation of the crest augmentation diploma.

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