| 单词 | the iron crown of the lombards |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe Iron Crown of the Lombards Iron Crown n. (also with lower-case initials) a small jewel-encrusted gold crown with which the kings and queens of Lombardy (and later Italy) were crowned; frequently in the Iron Crown of Lombardy, the Iron Crown of the Lombards.The Iron Crown, which is held in the cathedral church of Monza, is so called from the inner band of iron it contains, reputed to be made from a nail used in the crucifixion of Jesus. [After post-classical Latin corona ferrea (1537 as ferrea corona in the passage translated in quot. 1550); compare French couronne de fer (1549 or earlier), Italian corona del ferro (a1348; now usually corona ferrea ), German eiserne Krone (1533 in the passage underlying the Latin text translated in quot. 1550).] ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > symbol of office or authority > regalia > [noun] > crown > specific crown imperial1485 Iron Crown1550 crown homager1610 cidaris1658 pschent1814 ocean-crowna1854 turret-crown1886 1550 W. Lynne tr. J. Carion Thre Bks. Cronicles iii. f. clvi He went into Italy, and toke in Lombardy, where he was also crowned with an yron crown [L. ferrea corona, Ger. mit der eisern kron]. 1702 J. Savage Antient & Present State Germany 34 The Iron Crown. 1839 Penny Cycl. XIV. 104/2 At Pavia..the successors of Charlemagne were crowned with the iron crown of Lombardy as kings of Italy. 1861 J. G. Sheppard Fall of Rome i. 12 Yet the German still guards, though no longer in a Lombard fortress, the iron Crown. 1920 Times 22 June 19/4 Napoleon as ‘King of Italy’ placed on his brows the Iron Crown of the Lombards which Queen Theodolinda in the sixth century fashioned from one of the nails of the True Cross. 2006 R. Sale Ital. Lakes (ed. 8) 12/1 Both Charlemagne in the eighth century and Napoleon in the nineteenth century were crowned with the Iron Crown. < as lemmas |
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