Imperial crown

Imperial State Crown
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An Imperial Crown is a crown used for the coronation of emperors.

Types of Imperial crowns

Roman Imperial Crowns

Byzantine Imperial Crowns

Imperial Crowns with Mitre

Emperor Maximilian I wearing a crown with mitre

Imperial Crowns with single arch and deployable mitre

Imperial Crowns with single arch and attached mitre

The Silk Imperial Crown Of Russia was used, as Official coronation gift of the Russian Empire for the Coronation of Nicholas II the last Emperor of the Romanov line. Nicholas II was the first & only Monarch to be presented with such monumental coronation gift. Not intended, as ceremonial regalia, but as, private Imperial property a memento to his Coronation Event.

Imperial Crowns with high arches

Prussian-German Imperial Crowns

Napoleonic Imperial Crowns

Imperial crowns based on the design of European royal crowns

Other Imperial Crowns without European origin or influence

Legal usage

Main article: British Emperor

Because Pope Clement VII would not grant Henry VIII of England an annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, the English Parliament passed the Act in Restraint of Appeals (1533) in which it was explicitly stated that

Where by divers sundry old authentic histories and chronicles it is manifestly declared and expressed that this realm of England is an empire, and so hath been accepted in the world, governed by one supreme head and king, having the dignity and royal estate of the imperial crown of the same.[1]

The next year the Act of Supremacy (1534) explicitly tied the headship of the church to the imperial crown:

The only supreme head in earth of the Church of England called Anglicana Ecclesia, and shall have and enjoy annexed and united to the imperial crown of this realm.[2]

During the reign of Mary I the First Act of Supremacy was annulled, but during the reign of Elizabeth I the Second Act of Supremacy, with similar wording to the First Act, was passed in 1559. During the English Interregnum the laws were annulled, but the acts which caused the laws to be in abeyance were themselves, deemed to be null and void by the Parliaments of the English Restoration, so by act of Parliament The Crown of England and (later the British and UK crowns) are imperial crowns.

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The opening words of the Act in restraint of Appeals, 1533
  2. ↑ Excerpt from The Act of Supremacy (1534)
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