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unusual facts about Imperial Regalia



Aachen Cathedral Treasury

In August of that year the treasure was taken to the Collegium Liborianum, the Capuchin Monetary in Paderborn, where the three items of Imperial Regalia hitherto in the possession of the Cathedral college (the Carolingian Coronation Gospels, the Sabre of Charlemagne and St. Stephen's Purse were separated and taken to Vienna.


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Imperial Treasury, Vienna

The Imperial Regalia arrived in the last days of the Holy Roman Empire around 1800 from Nuremberg, where they had been kept since 1424, in order to save them from the advancing French troops under Napoleon.

Kusunoki Masahide

By attempting to restore the dynasty, Masahide followed in stealing the imperial regalia during the year 1443, then fled with the southern claimant to the Yoshino mountains.