Koronacja Jana III Sobieskiego w ujęciu poetów i pamiętnikarzy
The of coronation of Jan III Sobieski described by poets and diarists

Summary/Abstract: The article presents Polish texts related to the coronation of Jan III Sobieski. Wacław Potocki and Wespazjan Kochowski praised the king for submitting defense of the homeland over coronation ceremonies, organized two years after the election. In those ceremonies participated Jan Chryzostom Pasek, who noted that there were three successive kings in Cracow and that fact was associated with the tradition of the solemn burial of predecessors by the ascending monarch. Mikołaj Jemiołowski focused on the speech by the Bishop of Cracow Andrzej Trzebicki, whose speech he translated from Latin into Polish. The burial and the coronation were widely described by an anonymous author of “Connotatio Variarum Occurentiarum 1677” and Bogusław Kazimierz Maskiewicz. They both copied the Jan Andrzej Morsztyn’s epitaph from kings’ catafalque. The manuscript contained also an oration of Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski, speaking during the coronation proceedings in the Parliament to the new chancellor Jan Stanisław Wyżga. The article is based on unknown manuscript sources.

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