Letter from the States General of the United Provinces of the Netherlands in response to King Karl XI on Kristina's death, dated June 13, 1689

Source:

Mémoires concernant Christine, reine de Suède, volume 4, page 439 (appendix), compiled and edited by Johan Arckenholtz, 1759

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The letter:

SERENISSIME ET POTENTISSIME REX.

Gravissimo cum animi dolure tum Serenissimæ ac Potentissimæ Dominæ CHRISTINÆ Suecorum, Gothorum &c. Reginæ interitum, tum Regiæ Vestræ Majestatis justissimam indè coortam mæstitiam ex Vestris literis, Holmiæ 10. Mensis Rex Serenissime, infaustus ille MAGNÆ CHRISTINÆ obitus, quam nobis amicissimam quávit datei occasione experiebamur, meritòque peculiarem Majestatis Vestræ ed in re jacturam dolemus. Quippe, Rex Serenissime, tot & tantæ tamque præclaræ cum animi verè Regii, tum ingenii in omni Linguarum Scientiarumque etiam reconditissimarum genere excultissimi dotes, quæ immortale isti Reginæ nomen ubicumque pepererunt, luctu animos nostros adeò affecere, ut Magna illa Regina ingent sui desiderium nobis reliquerit: quod ut fusilis Reginæ Vestræ Majestati Residens noster Car. Rumpsius exponat ipsi in mandatis damus: sed istam, quantacumque demiun fit, jacturam, Deus, Rex ille Regum, Dominusque Dominantium, utrinque, ut speramus, & vovemus, refarciet, quem ipsum, ut Regiam Majestatem Vestram incolumem florentemque diù servare velit, supplices oramus & obnixissimè deprecamur. &c. Hagæ Comitis 13. Junii 1689.

Above: Kristina.

Above: Kristina's body laying in state at her/his/their funeral.

Above: Kristina's funeral procession on its way to St. Peter's Basilica.

Above: King Karl XI of Sweden.