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The crown jewels of Ireland were heavily jeweled insignia of the Most Illustrious Order of Saint Patrick. They were worn by the sovereign at the installation of knights of that order, the Irish equivalent of the English Most Noble Order of the Garter and the Scottish Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle.
Eventually, the New York-based jewelry firm Van Cleef & Arpels purchased the Marie Louise Diadem and its matching belt buckle from the family in 1953, accepting the signed affidavit of both Alice and Karl Stefan attesting to the jewels' long history within the family and the claimed original provenance. The remaining pieces of the parure were ...
The Order of the Golden Fleece was one of the most prestigious orders in the Middle Ages and still exists today, alongside the Order of the Garter. The current head of the Order is Karl Habsburg-Lothringen. It was founded by Duke Philip the Good and Princess Isabella of Portugal in 1430.
[11] [12] When the popes assumed temporal power in the Papal States, the base crown became decorated with jewels to resemble the crowns of princes. [11] Innocent III is represented with an early tiara in a fresco at Sacro Speco and on a mosaic from Old Saint Peter's , now in the Museo di Roma . [ 13 ]
The Stuart Sapphire, set in a hexagonal gold mount, was on the front of Queen Victoria's Crown from 1838 until 1909, when it was relocated to the back.. The Stuart Sapphire is a 104-carat (21 g) blue sapphire that forms part of the British Crown Jewels.
An early 20th-century likeness of Curtana, with ragged tip after a 1661 catalogue by Sir Edward Walker, Garter King of Arms. [10]The name Curtana or Curtein (from the Latin Curtus, meaning short [11] [12]) appears on record for the first time in accounts of the coronation of Queen Eleanor of Provence in 1236 when Henry III of England married the queen.
The Crown of Norway is the crown of the King of Norway and was made in Stockholm in 1818 by goldsmith Olof Wihlborg. The crown is a corona clausa (closed model) consisting of a ring carrying eight hoops made of gold and surmounted by a monde of blue enamel and an amethyst cross on top of it.