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The Crown of Charlemagne from 1271, used as French coronation crown from 875 or 1590 to 1775. The Crown of Charlemagne (French: Couronne de Charlemagne) was a name given to the ancient coronation crown of Kings of the Franks, and later Kings of France after 1237.
The crown does not have a round shape but an octagonal one, a possible reference to the shape of crowns of Byzantine emperors and/or of Charlemagne's Palatine Chapel in Aachen. Its eight hinged plates are arched at the top. Two strips of iron of unidentified date, riveted with golden rivets to the plates, hold the crown together.
Apparently, once Frankfurt had become the normal site for the German royal coronation, the Imperial Crown was always used and thus eventually became identified as the Crown of Charlemagne. [22] The Imperial Crown was originally made for Otto I (probably in the workshops of Reichenau abbey, the single arch of the crown from front to back ...
The Crown of Napoleon (French: Couronne de Napoléon I er) was a coronation crown made for Napoleon I and used in his coronation as Emperor of the French on December 2, 1804. . Napoleon called this crown the "Crown of Charlemagne", which was the name of the ancient royal coronation crown of France that had been destroyed during the French Revolut
The Crown of Charlemagne from 1271, used as the French coronation crown from 875 or 1590 to 1775. Procession of Louis XV after his coronation in Notre-Dame de Reims, traditional location of the coronations of Kings of France. The Crown of Napoleon created in 1804, Louvre. Crown of the Dauphin, Louis Antoine, worn at the coronation of Charles X ...
The Iron Crown (in Italian, Latin, and Lombard: Corona Ferrea; German: Eiserne Krone) is a reliquary votive crown, traditionally considered one of the oldest royal insignia of Christendom. It was made in the Middle Ages , consisting of a circlet of gold and jewels fitted around a central silver band, which tradition held to be made of iron ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 February 2025. King of the Franks, first Holy Roman Emperor For other uses, see Charlemagne (disambiguation). Charlemagne A denarius of Charlemagne dated c. 812–814 with the inscription KAROLVS IMP AVG (Karolus Imperator Augustus) King of the Franks Reign 9 October 768 – 28 January 814 Coronation 9 ...
Behind Charlemagne, a child page holds the royal crown that he just took off to receive the imperial one. It is quite likely that the fresco refers to the Concordat of Bologna, negotiated between the Holy See and the kingdom of France in 1515, since Leo III is in fact a portrait of Leo X and Charlemagne a portrait of Francis I. [3]