Charles IV Crowned Emperor

JAN 01 1355 · 12:00

Charles IV in the relic scenes of the Chapel of St Catherine at Karlštejn, painted within a decade of his Roman coronation. Place: St Peter's Basilica, Rome Figures: Charles IV · Cardinal Pierre de Colombier, papal legate (the Pope is at Avignon) · Anna of Schweidnitz, the new empress · Francesco Petrarca, observing Crécy was 26 August 1346 and the Bonn coronation was 26 November 1346 — that is three months after Crécy, not two., with the Aachen coronation following only in 1349 once he had the actual regalia in hand. By 1355 he is methodically completing the triple coronation tradition. He receives the Iron Crown of Lombardy at Milan on the way south in January, performed by the archbishop of Milan in Sant'Ambrogio, because he has not bothered to fight the Visconti for control of Pavia. Anna of Schweidnitz was Charles IV's THIRD wife, not his second. (1: Blanche of Valois m.1329 d.1348; 2: Anna of the Palatinate m.1349 d.1353; 3: Anna of Schweidnitz m.1353 d.1362; 4: Elizabeth of Pomerania m.1363). Pope Innocent VI is in Avignon and will not be moving. He sends Cardinal Pierre de Colombier with full authority. The agreement Charles has signed with the curia is severe: he will enter Rome on the morning of his coronation and leave by sundown of the same day. He is not to camp in the city; not to interfere in the Papal States; not to receive petitions; not to invest officials. He signs.