Crown headgear - History

A crown is a symbolic form of headgear worn by a monarch or by a god, for whom the crown is traditionally one of the symbols of power and legitimacy (See Regalia for a broader treatment). Crown headgear - Terminology. Three distinct categories of crowns exist in those monarchies that use crowns or state regalia. Coronation crowns - only worn by monarchs at the point of coronation, i.e. installaton by taking posession of the crown; state or Imperial crowns - crow ...

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In the christian tradition of Byzantine and European cultures, where ecclesiastical sanction authenticates monarchic power, when a new monarch assumes the throne in a coronation ceremony, the crown is placed on the new monarch's head by a religious official. Some, though not all early Holy Roman Emperors travelled to Rome at some point in their careers to be crowned by the pope. Napoleon, according to legend, surprised Pius VII when he reached out and crowned himself, although in reality this order of cerem ...

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Three distinct categories of crowns exist in those monarchies that use crowns or state regalia. Coronation crowns - only worn by monarchs at the point of coronation, i.e. installaton by taking posession of the crown; state or Imperial crowns - crowns worn by monarchs on other state occasions. *Similar headgear, worn by nobility and other high ranking people below the ruler, is in English called a coronet. However in many languages the same word is used, e.g. French couronne, German Krone, ...

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A Crown is often an emblem of the monarchy, a monarch's government, or items endorsed by it; see The Crown. A specific type of crown (or coronet for lower ranks of peerage) is employed in heraldry under strict rules. Indeed some monarchies never had a physical crown, just a heraldic representation, as in the constitutional kingdom of Belgium, where no coronation ever took place; the royal installation is done by a solemn oath in parliament, wearing a military uniform: the King is not acknowledged as by divine right, but assumes the on ...

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