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Royal Proclamation and Goerts Trial in Sweden 1719
The excerpt outlines a royal proclamation excluding criminals from mercy on coronation day and orders authorities in Stockholm to execute sentences. It then details Queen Ulrica Eleonora’s handling of the Baron de Goerts case, including the formation of a mixed court of nobility clergy burghers and others to judge the affair and the demand to surrender the Black Eagle order.
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Stockholm
Ulrica Eleonora
Baron de Goerts
Sweden
Televests
Chancery
Peter Ribing
Peter Fedman
Goerts
Prussia