| has gloss | eng: The Crown of Charlemagne was the ancient coronation crown of Kings of the Franks, and later Kings of France after 1237. It was probably originally made as a simple circlet of four curved rectanglar jewelled plates for Charles the Bald, but later, four large jewelled fleur-de-lis were added to these four original plates, probably by Philip Augustus. It was used up to the reign of King Louis XVI, who was crowned in 1775 in the Cathedral in Reims. French kings had also their personal crowns, worn after the coronation, during the banquet, which were later donated to the treasury of the Abbey of St. Denis near Paris, the traditiional burial place of the Capetian dynasty. Only one of the personal crowns remain, manufactured for the coronation of Louis XV in 1722, the Crown of Louis XV. But the coronation crown, the Crown of Charlemagne was destroyed in the French Revolution, like almost all of mediaeval regalia. Only Louis XV's crown, and the mediaeval Joyeuse, the coronation sword of the French kings, the sceptre called the Hand of Justice and the 14th century sceptre of Charles V survived. |
