de bene esse: Medieval & Renaissance Crowns

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Medieval & Renaissance Crowns

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

The funerary crown of Philip the Bold (1404).

Margaret of York's crown (made in about 1461) was adorned with pearls, and with enamelled white roses for the House of York set between red, green and white enamelled letters of her name, with gold Cs and Ms, entwined with lovers' knots. She wore this crown on her wedding day and it can still be seen in the treasury at Aachen Cathedral.

Crown of an English queen (the "Bohemian" or "Palatine" crown;
gold, enamel, sapphires, rubies, emeralds, diamonds, pearls;
height 18 cm, diam. 18 cm), western Europe, around 1370-80

The crown is recorded in England in a list of jewels and plate drawn up in 1399. It probably belonged to King Edward III or Anne of Bohemia, the wife of King Richard II, who was deposed that year by Henry IV. Henry's daughter, Princess Blanche, married the Palatine Elector Ludwig III in 1402 and the crown passed to the Palatine Treasury in Heidelberg as part of her dowry. In 1782 it was transferred to the Munich Treasury along with other jewels belonging to the Palatine branch of the Wittelsbach family. This is the oldest surviving crown of England

Crown of Elizabeth Kotromanic of Bosnia (c. 1339 - January 1387) in Zadar, Croatia, given by Louis I of Hungary.

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