This writer insists that the conductors of our English coronations since Henry VII.
This was the form observed on the coronations of Edward VI.
John; and that of Charlemagne, Joyeuse, was preserved to grace the coronations of the kings of France.
The king and the queen being both of them the mere creations of the law, the solemnities of their coronations were mere creations of the law also, and were known to it in no other light than as the rights of the whole realm of England.
There seems to have been a double anointing of our kings at their respective coronations until the reign of James I.
Coronations were anciently regarded as a species of parliamentary meeting between the king and his subjects.
Protestant coronations it was introduced, we know not.
A Complete Account of the Ceremonies observed in the Coronations of the Kings and Queens of England (London, 1727); F.
England to the continent, and was used for the coronations of the kings of France.
As the titles of the lay peers grew extinct, and their fiefs lapsed to the crown, it became customary for them to be represented by some great nobles at the coronations of the kings of France.
Illustration] The coronations at Reims served, as already remarked, to attract within the walls of the old episcopal city all that was great, magnificent, and noble in France.
This era is, moreover, marked by the inauguration of that long series of coronations which helped to spread the popularity of the Champagne wines throughout France by the agency of the nobles and prelates taking part in the ceremony.
The claim to this honourable service in the cases of the coronations of William IV and Queen Victoria was not made because no banquet took place on these occasions.
The privilege of assisting the chief butler at the coronations of the Kings of England accorded to the citizens of London appears to date back before the appointment of a Mayor.
The royal processions arranged in connection withcoronations were of great antiquity, but one of the earliest to be described is that of Henry III.
Ordinarily there had been no coronations in Prussia, as they were considered a useless expense.
How his eyes glistened when he told stories of the coronations at Aix with their ceremonies and banquets, of Charlemagne, of Barbarossa, and their greatness!
Presidents, the coronations of emperors and kings in lands beyond our borders, are all brought to a close by brilliant displays of fireworks.
At the 5th Henry's, it was two pennies; and similar prices were paid at the coronations of Henry VI.
Heaven to aid his plans, and here Henry of Navarre was crowned King of France, a change of venue from Reims, where so many previous and subsequent coronations were held.
The monarchs of France were a long and picturesque line, and the ceremonies attendant upon their coronations were accordingly imposing and magnificent.
By this tower standeth a fountain, which at coronations and great triumphs is made to run with wine out of divers spouts.
Rheims, where coronations formerly took place, was in possession of the Leaguers.
The royal processions arranged in connexion with coronations were of great antiquity, but one of the earliest to be described is that of Henry III.
Modern coronations are not 'hanseld and auspicated,' as was that of Richard I.
The writers hostile to Sigismund lay stress on the absence of many nobles whose Court dignities rendered their presence at coronations necessary.
France and--by one of history's little ironies--became the texte du sacre used at the coronations of the Kings of France.
The steward's ancient and particular services atcoronations are practically obsolete; the full ceremonies, procession from Westminster Hall and banquet in which he figured prominently, were abandoned on the accession of William IV.
His office is now called out of abeyance for coronations alone.
This is the Coronation Chair, in which all English sovereigns have sat at their coronations since it was made in Edward the First's reign.
We will go down Parliament street from Trafalgar Square, along the road that English kings took in old days from the Tower of London to their coronations at the Abbey.
For more than 800 years the coronations of English monarchs have regularly taken place in Westminster Abbey.
All previous coronations were said to be outdone by the feasting and joviality on this occasion.
But the list of Kingstons is too long for this place, and so you are referred to the "Gazetteer" for the rest, while I proceed to delve amid antiquarian matter in respect of the kings whose coronations took place here.
The old stone floor, worn with the tread of Kings' coronations and funeral processions, was covered with matting, and purple and crimson cloth.
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