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A tiara is used to crown a statue of Saint Peter in St. Peter's Basilica every year on his feast day. [1] Popes commissioned tiaras from jewelers or received them as gifts, with a number remaining in the possession of the Holy See. In 1798, French troops occupied Rome and stole or destroyed all but one of the papal tiaras held by the Holy See ...
The makuṭa (Sanskrit: मुकुट), variously known in several languages as makuta, mahkota, magaik, mokot, mongkut or chada (see § Etymology and origins below), is a type of headdress used as crowns in the Southeast Asian monarchies of today's Cambodia and Thailand, and historically in Indonesia (Java, Sumatra, and Bali), Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Laos and Myanmar.
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Three crowns and other jewels were held by the Bishop of London and the Earl of Arundel in the 1370s as security for £10,000. [43] One crown was exchanged with the Corporation of London in 1386 for a £4,000 loan. Mayors, knights, peers, bankers, and other wealthy subjects sometimes released objects on a temporary basis for the royal family to ...
Paper Crown is the second solo album by Nine Black Alps front-man Sam Forrest, released December 28, 2009, on Desert Mine Music. [ 1 ] Prior to release, Forrest had been uploading song previews to his website, where "Say Your Prayers" appeared to be lead single.
The Extultet Barberini, dated around 1087, shows an early version of the tiara, with lower band and a crosshatch pattern on the conical tiara. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] A similar tiara is shown on Innocent III in a fresco at Sacro Speco from about 1219 and on a mosaic from Old Saint Peter's , now in the Museo di Roma . [ 5 ]
Byzantine votive crown, given by Leo VI (r. 886-912), now in the Treasury of San Marco, Venice. The largest number of surviving examples of the Christian Early Medieval suspended type come from 7th century Visigothic Hispania, especially the Treasure of Guarrazar, from near Toledo, which includes no fewer than twenty-six examples in gold, probably hidden as the Muslim expansion drew near.