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Gold, cloisonne, enamel, precious stones and pearls
Size: foreplate 14.9cm. high x 11.2 cm. wide
Date: octagon shape 962 or 967; crown cross 11th century; top-arch 1024-39; red velvet cap 18th century.
The emblem of the Order is said to have been made in 962 for the coronation of Otto the Great or for his son Otto II as co-emperor in 967.
Collection; Kunsthistorisches, Vienna, Austria
Photograph: Scala, London, England.
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Because of the iron strip believed to be made from the nail from Christ’s crucifix.
Charlemagne was crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor, reputedly with the Iron Crown, by Pope Leo III in Rome on Christmas Night, 800 AD. He lived from 742 to 814 and, as King of the Franks, established and ruled over a kingdom that spanned virtually all the Christian States of Western Europe, including what is now France, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, half of Italy and Germany, part of Austria and a small part of Spain.
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