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AnneMarie Dahlberg
were added to the royal collection in 1671. One of these is a damask flag for
Sigismund IIFs court trumpeter, with the entire Swedish national coat of arms in
the escutcheon. Swedish Riksdag records give us a description of the musicians' part
in the funeral and coronation ceremonies on 19 February 1594: 'Ali the soldiery,
both cavalry and infantry, were lined up between the Cathedral and the Castle on
both sides of the road, with colours unfurled, trumpets, fifes and drums.' Concern-
ing the actual coronation musie, we read thatthen the descanters sang, organs and
trumpets were played, in such wise that it was a delight to hear.' These flags might
have been the ones used for the ceremony in Uppsala.
We know for a fact that one of the six harness in the holdings was used for the coach
horses at Sigismund's entry into Kraków in 1605 for his wedding to Princess
Constancia of Austria. The harness is of black pressed leather with cast and gilded
mountings. The heraldic shield displays both the Polish-Lithuanian and the Swed-
ish national coats of arms, surrounded by the chain of the Order of the Golden
Fleece. Sigismund III was thirty-nine years old when he married his second wife,
the seventeen-year-old Constancia of Austria, sister of Sigismund's first wife, Anna.
Over 600 people took part in the solemn entry. The royal procession is showed in a
suit of pictures more than 15 metres long, known to us as the Polish roli (but in Po-
land as the Stockholm roli), which was returned by the Swedish government to the
collections of the Royal Castle in Warsaw in 1974. The roli features, for example, the
Standard Bearer of the Kingdom with the Polish banner of state, which was used
at the nuptials of Sigismund and Constancia. Dressed in a mauve costume embroi-
dered in gold Sigismund rides a chestnut horse. Several carriages followed in pro-
cession. The bride, seated to the left of her mother, Archduchess Maria, rode in the
first of them. Facing her, and riding baekwards, are her sister, Maria of Styria and
Princess Anna of Sweden, the King's sister.
During the early years of Sigismund's Polish reign, he and Constancia resided at the
Wawel Castle in Cracow, where they are both buried. Constancia, Sigismund IIFs
Queen, died in 1631 at the age of forty-three, just a few months before he did.
Constancia was never recognised as Queen of Sweden, because Sigismund had al-
ready been deposed from the Swedish throne in 1599 and succeeded by his own
uncle, Karl IX. Constancia and Sigismund were buried in the Cracow Cathedral in
1633. For this double funeral, the first ever in Poland, a Castrum Doloris was con-
structed, designed by the court architect Gian Battista Ghisleni of Rome. Later, he
also worked for Sigismund's son Ladislas IV and Ladislas's brother, John Casimir.
The Royal Armoury has a total of twelve velvet embroideries of Queen Constancia's
three different heraldic devices as (1) daughter of the Archduke of Austria (Karl of
Styria), (2) Queen of Poland, and (3) Queen of Sweden. These coats of arms were
hung either on the four walls of the funeral chapel or, more probably, on the four
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were added to the royal collection in 1671. One of these is a damask flag for
Sigismund IIFs court trumpeter, with the entire Swedish national coat of arms in
the escutcheon. Swedish Riksdag records give us a description of the musicians' part
in the funeral and coronation ceremonies on 19 February 1594: 'Ali the soldiery,
both cavalry and infantry, were lined up between the Cathedral and the Castle on
both sides of the road, with colours unfurled, trumpets, fifes and drums.' Concern-
ing the actual coronation musie, we read thatthen the descanters sang, organs and
trumpets were played, in such wise that it was a delight to hear.' These flags might
have been the ones used for the ceremony in Uppsala.
We know for a fact that one of the six harness in the holdings was used for the coach
horses at Sigismund's entry into Kraków in 1605 for his wedding to Princess
Constancia of Austria. The harness is of black pressed leather with cast and gilded
mountings. The heraldic shield displays both the Polish-Lithuanian and the Swed-
ish national coats of arms, surrounded by the chain of the Order of the Golden
Fleece. Sigismund III was thirty-nine years old when he married his second wife,
the seventeen-year-old Constancia of Austria, sister of Sigismund's first wife, Anna.
Over 600 people took part in the solemn entry. The royal procession is showed in a
suit of pictures more than 15 metres long, known to us as the Polish roli (but in Po-
land as the Stockholm roli), which was returned by the Swedish government to the
collections of the Royal Castle in Warsaw in 1974. The roli features, for example, the
Standard Bearer of the Kingdom with the Polish banner of state, which was used
at the nuptials of Sigismund and Constancia. Dressed in a mauve costume embroi-
dered in gold Sigismund rides a chestnut horse. Several carriages followed in pro-
cession. The bride, seated to the left of her mother, Archduchess Maria, rode in the
first of them. Facing her, and riding baekwards, are her sister, Maria of Styria and
Princess Anna of Sweden, the King's sister.
During the early years of Sigismund's Polish reign, he and Constancia resided at the
Wawel Castle in Cracow, where they are both buried. Constancia, Sigismund IIFs
Queen, died in 1631 at the age of forty-three, just a few months before he did.
Constancia was never recognised as Queen of Sweden, because Sigismund had al-
ready been deposed from the Swedish throne in 1599 and succeeded by his own
uncle, Karl IX. Constancia and Sigismund were buried in the Cracow Cathedral in
1633. For this double funeral, the first ever in Poland, a Castrum Doloris was con-
structed, designed by the court architect Gian Battista Ghisleni of Rome. Later, he
also worked for Sigismund's son Ladislas IV and Ladislas's brother, John Casimir.
The Royal Armoury has a total of twelve velvet embroideries of Queen Constancia's
three different heraldic devices as (1) daughter of the Archduke of Austria (Karl of
Styria), (2) Queen of Poland, and (3) Queen of Sweden. These coats of arms were
hung either on the four walls of the funeral chapel or, more probably, on the four
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