1705, from Wien to Brünn, complete folded letter signed in full by
Emperor Leopold I, addressed to Count Karl Anton von Braida zu
Ronseco
1705, from Wien to Brünn, complete folded letter signed in full by
Emperor Leopold I, addressed to Count Karl Anton von Braida zu
Ronseco und Corniglian, Michael Wenzel Count Althann and Franz
Ehrenreich von Pfundtenstein, reprimands the Moravian estates for
having contributed only a tenth of the required military funds,
outlines the critical wartime situation including the deployment of
multiple imperial armies under the Duke of Savoy to Hungary and
Siebenbürgen, mentions extensive devastation by French forces
within the Empire and refers to the depopulation of entire
districts due to arson and murder, orders the immediate payment of
144444 Gulden and 20 Kreuzer from Moravia, insists on broader
contribution including from capitalists and artisans, demands swift
collection and transfer to the imperial war treasury, establishes a
new commission in place of the absent Landeshauptmann, written in
chancery hand on imperial paper, features intact and deeply
impressed wax seal on reverse with full imperial arms, dated 22
April 1705, issued during the War of the Spanish Succession and
within months of Leopold I death, this document reflects the
culmination of the emperors decades long centralization efforts and
his relentless pressure on provincial estates to sustain imperial
warfare across multiple fronts, XF! Estimate 1.200€.