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Ducal Coronation (Carinthia): These ceremonies, unique in legal 
history, held on the installation of a new duke in Carinthia started 
at the  Fuerstenstein, an antique column fragment in the Carolingian 
palatinate  Karnburg. The first detailed description of the ceremonies 
was made by  Johann von Viktring on the occasion of the installation 
ceremony of Count Meinhard II of the Tirol 1286 as Duke of 
Carinthia. It tells of the new duke being asked questions by the  
Herzogbauer (a rural freeholder) in Slavic language as to who he was, 
whether he was going to be a fair judge and whether he was a believer 
and defender of the Christian faith. On the  Herzogstuhl at the  
Zollfeld Plain the oath was taken, rights and freedoms were confirmed, 
feudal tenure was confirmed or newly invested and the actual act of 
paying homage to the new Carinthian duke took place. The first 
documented installation was that of Duke Hermann of the Sponheim 
dynasty 1161. Numerous Carinthian dukes underwent this act on the 
"Herzogstuhl": the installation ceremony with the act of paying 
tribute on the "Herzogstuhl" of Meinhard von Tirol (1286), the 
Habsburgs Otto (1335), Albrecht (1342), Rudolf IV (1360) and 
Ernst von Inner-Oesterreich (1414) have been documented. The ceremony 
for Duke Ernst in 1414 was of particular importance: he was the last 
Habsburg to undergo this complex ceremony in its historically binding 
sequence - the rural-democratic custom on the  Fuerstenstein in 
Karnburg, the festive high mass in the church of Maria Saal and 
finally the feoffment and tribute act at the  Herzogstuhl on the 
Zollfeld. Others who received personal homage on the "Herzogstuhl" 
were the Archdukes Karl (1564) and Ferdinand (1597). The last to 
undergo these ceremonies were Ferdinand III in 1631 and 
Ferdinand IV in 1651, though not in person but through authorized 
representatives. After that the ritual installations were no longer 
held at the "Herzogstuhl" on the Zollfeld, but in the Landhaus in 
Klagenfurt. The installation that ended this tradition was that of the 
Emperor Karl VI, the last Habsburg to be paid homage to in the 
Grosser Wappensaal coat-of-arms hall of the Landhaus in Klagenfurt by 
the provincial diets in 1728.


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