Original scientific paper

Order of the Iron Crown

Boris Prister ; Croatian history museum, Zagreb, CRO

Abstract

The Order of the Iron Crown was founded by Napoleon Bonaparte for his coronation as King of Italy, in Milan in 1805. In the ceremony Napoleon was crowned with the ancient Crown of Lombardy, the so-called Iron Crown. The Order had three classes and was awarded until Napoleon’s fall and abdication on 11 April 1814. By the Paris Agreements signed on 30 May 1815, Lombardy and Venice became part of the Hapsburg
Monarchy. Wanting to give this event a special ceremonious significance, the Austrian Emperor Francis I re-established the Order on 1 January 1816, making the Order of the Iron Crown an Austrian Imperial Order.

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Hrčak ID:

172198

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/172198

Publication date:

1.12.2016.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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