A crown is a traditional form of head adornment, or hat, worn by monarchs as a symbol of their power and dignity. A crown is often, by extension, a symbol of the monarch's government or items endorsed by it. The word itself is used, particularly in Commonwealth countries, as an abstract name for the monarchy itself (and, by extension, the state of which said monarch is head) as distinct from the individual who inhabits it (that is, The Crown ). A specific type of crown (or coronet for lower ranks of peerage) is employed in heraldry under strict rules. Indeed, some monarchies never had a physical crown, just a heraldic representation, as in the constitutional kingdom of Belgium.
20-456: [REDACTED] Look up coronal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Coronal may refer to: a nuptial crown anything relating to a corona Coronal plane , an anatomical term of location The coronal direction on a tooth Coronal consonant , a consonant that is articulated with the front part of the tongue Coronal stop ,
40-476: A cross rested on the top of the crown. Special headgear to designate rulers dates back to pre-history, and is found in many separate civilizations around the globe. Commonly, rare and precious materials are incorporated into the crown, but that is only essential for the notion of crown jewels. Gold and precious jewels are common in western and oriental crowns. In the Native American civilizations of
60-613: A crown as a national symbol. The French Crown Jewels were sold in 1885 on the orders of the Third French Republic , with only a token number, their precious stones replaced by glass, retained for historic reasons and displayed in the Louvre . The Spanish Crown Jewels were destroyed in a major fire in the 18th century while the so-called " Irish Crown Jewels " (actually merely the British Sovereign's insignia of
80-416: A radiate crown is shown on Augustus in a posthumous coin issued after his deification, and on Nero on at least one coin while he was alive, it only became common, and sometimes usual, on coins in the 3rd century. Histories record that Gallienus , at least, wore an actual crown in public. The solar crown worn by Constantine , the first emperor to convert to Christianity, was reinterpreted as representing
100-576: A type of stop consonant Coronal loop , a structure on the surface of the Sun Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Coronal . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Coronal&oldid=1081742686 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
120-461: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Nuptial crown Three distinct categories of crowns exist in those monarchies that use crowns or state regalia. Crowns or similar headgear, as worn by nobility and other high-ranking people below the ruler, are in English often called coronets ; however, in many languages, this distinction
140-428: Is not made and the same word is used for both types of headgear (e.g., French couronne , German Krone , Dutch kroon ). In some of these languages the term "rank crown" ( rangkroon , etc.) refers to the way these crowns may be ranked according to hierarchical status. In classical antiquity , the crown ( corona ) that was sometimes awarded to people other than rulers, such as triumphal military generals or athletes ,
160-597: Is placed on the new monarch's head by a religious official in a coronation ceremony. Some, though not all, early Holy Roman Emperors travelled to Rome at some point in their careers to be crowned by the pope. Napoleon , according to legend, surprised Pius VII when he reached out and crowned himself, although in reality this order of ceremony had been pre-arranged. Today, only the British Monarchy and Tongan Monarchy , with their anointed and crowned monarchs, continue this tradition, although many monarchies retain
180-460: Is used in the equivalent of coronation, but the head may still be otherwise symbolically adorned; for example, with a royal tikka in the Hindu tradition of India. Because one or more crowns, alone or as part of a more elaborate design, often appear on coins, several monetary denominations came to be known as ' a crown ' or the equivalent word in the local language, such as krone . This persists in
200-532: The Most Illustrious Order of St Patrick ) were stolen from Dublin Castle in 1907, just before the investiture of Bernard Edward Barnaby FitzPatrick, 2nd Baron Castletown . The Crown of King George XII of Georgia made of gold and decorated with 145 diamonds, 58 rubies, 24 emeralds, and 16 amethysts. It took the form of a circlet surmounted by ornaments and eight arches. A globe surmounted by
220-606: The Pre-Columbian New World , rare feathers , such as that of the quetzal , often decorated crowns; so too in Polynesia (e.g., Hawaii). Coronation ceremonies are often combined with other rituals, such as enthronement (the throne is as much a symbol of monarchy as the crown) and anointing (again, a religious sanction, the only defining act in the Biblical tradition of Israel). In other cultures, no crown
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#1732791092888240-463: The " Holy Nails ". From the Renaissance onward, the ancient Colossus of Rhodes , which was a statue of Helios, was often depicted with a radiate crown, although the statue's actual appearance is not known. The radiate crown became associated with Liberty personified , usually in a form of a circular disc with rays in different directions. The first appearance of Liberty in this guise may be in
260-652: The Roman Emperor Augustus. By the time of the Pharaoh Amenophis III (r.1390–1352c) wearing a diadem clearly became a symbol of royalty. The wreaths and crowns of classical antiquity were sometimes made from natural materials such as laurel, myrtle, olive, or wild celery. The corona radiata , the " radiant crown " known best on the Statue of Liberty , and perhaps worn by the Helios that
280-522: The Sun or more generally powers associated with the Sun. Apart from the Ancient Egyptian form of a disc between two horns, it is shaped with a number of narrowing bands going outwards from the wearer's head, to represent the rays of the Sun. These may be represented either as flat, on the same plane as the circlet of the crown, or rising at right angles to it. In the iconography of ancient Egypt ,
300-567: The case of the national currencies of the Scandinavian countries and the Czech Republic. The generic term "crown sized" is frequently used for any coin roughly the size of an American silver dollar (ie., approximately 26.5mm diameter). Radiant crown A radiant or radiate crown , also known as a solar crown , sun crown , Eastern crown , or tyrant's crown , is a crown , wreath , diadem , or other headgear symbolizing
320-468: The most famous kings who left numerous statues, reliefs, and coins of crowns is the king Shapur I . Numerous crowns of various forms were used in antiquity, such as the Hedjet , Deshret , Pschent (double crown) and Khepresh of Pharaonic Egypt . The Pharaohs of Egypt also wore the diadem, which was associated with solar cults, an association which was not completely lost, as it was later revived under
340-470: The solar crown is taken as a disc framed by the horns of a ram or cow. It is worn by deities such as Horus in his solar or hawk-headed form, Hathor , and Isis . It may also be worn by pharaohs . In Ptolemaic Egypt , the solar crown could also be a radiate diadem, modeled after the type worn by Alexander the Great (as identified with the sun god Helios ) in art from the mid-2nd century BC onward. It
360-472: Was actually a wreath or chaplet, or ribbon-like diadem . Crowns have been discovered in pre-historic times from Haryana , India. The precursor to the crown was the browband called the diadem , which had been worn by the Achaemenid Persian emperors . It was adopted by Constantine I and was worn by all subsequent rulers of the later Roman Empire. Almost all Sassanid kings wore crowns. One of
380-566: Was perhaps influenced by contact with the Shunga Empire , and a Greco-Bactrian example is depicted at the great stupa of Bharhut . The first ruler of Egypt shown wearing this version of a solar crown was Ptolemy III Euergetes (246–222 BC). In the Roman Empire , the solar crown was worn by Roman emperors , especially in association with the cult of Sol Invictus , influenced also by radiate depictions of Alexander. Although
400-515: Was the Colossus of Rhodes , was worn by Roman emperors as part of the cult of Sol Invictus prior to the Roman Empire 's conversion to Christianity. It was referred to as "the chaplet studded with sunbeams" by Lucian , about 180 AD. In the Christian tradition of European cultures, where ecclesiastical sanction authenticates monarchic power when a new monarch ascends the throne, the crown
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