CHARLES VI: (1685-1740) Holy Roman Emperor 1711-40. He succeeded his elder brother Joseph I. His daughter Maria ...

CHARLES VI: (1685-1740) Holy Roman Emperor 1711-40. He succeeded his elder brother Joseph I. His daughter Maria Theresa was the last direct Habsburg Sovereign. A good and unusual L.S., `Yo el Rey´, one page, folio, Vienna, 16th August 1730, to Count of Harrach, in Spanish. The Emperor approves the content of the letter received from his correspondent in June, related to the Pope and to an Abbey grant, stating in part `..the Papal bull given by the late Pontiff Benedict XIII, presented and obtained by Domingo Perrelli, Duke of Monasterace and his son Felipe with the grant for him and his successors of the secular Jus Patronato of the Abbey of St. Maria a capella of that city..´ The documents bears at the base several countersignatures, including the Emperor Secretary Bermudez de la Torre. With address leaf bearing an attractive paper seal affixed bearing the Royal seal of ''Carolus VI, Emperor of the Spanish Sicily''. Overall age wear and creasing, mostly to edges, with small area of paper loss to the right bottom corner, only affecting two countersignatures. F to G Aloys Thomas Raimund, Count of Harrach (1669-1742) Austrian Politician and Diplomat. Counselor of State, Envoy of the Austrian Emperor in Spain, and Viceroy of the Kingdom of Naples 1728-33. Knight of the distinguished order of the golden fleece. Pope Benedict XIII (1649-1730) born Pietro Francesco Orsini. Head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States 1724-30. The Emperor refers to the deceased Pope, who passed away in February 1730, only few months before the present letter was written. Benedict XIII, a Dominican friar with no political knowledge, relied on his unscrupulous secretary, Cardinal Niccolo Coscia, whose financial abuses ruined the Papal treasury.