Changing his linen, he strictly enjoined that his shirt should not be removed after his death, for his fastidious modesty was shocked by the idea of the exposure of his body, even after the soul had taken its flight.
He ordered his hair, after his death, to be cut off, all his teeth to be extracted, pounded to powder and publicly burned in the chapel of his palace.

For one day his remains were to be exposed to the public, as a lesson of mortality.

They were then to be placed in a sack filled with quicklime.

The sack was to be enveloped in folds of silk and satin, and then placed in the oaken coffin which had been so long awaiting his remains.

The coffin was then to be deposited under the altar of the chapel of his palace at Neustadt, in such a position that the officiating priest should ever trample over his head and heart.