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3 unusual facts about Royal entry


Cornelis Schut

He worked on the decorations for the Royal Entry of the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand in 1635 in both Antwerp (where Rubens was the overall organizer) and Ghent and collaborated with Gaspard de Crayer, Nicolas Roose, Jan Stadius and Theodoor Rombouts.

Roman–Parthian War of 161–166

Verus continued eastward via Corinth and Athens, accompanied by musicians and singers as if in a royal progress.

Triumphal Entry

Royal Entry covers the European ceremonies from the Middle Ages on.


Hugues Sambin

As an architect, he worked on the designs for temporary festive structures for the Royal entry into Dijon of Henri II and that of Charles IX (1564), for which Sambin was coordinator; in more lasting commissions, he built the Parlement of Besançon and the structure that is palais de Justice at Dijon, built to house the Parlement of Burgundy (1572).

Jean Duvet

The first of these appointments was on the occasion of the King's visit to Langres, where he was already living, in 1521; he had been involved in the decorations for the Royal Entry.

Triumphal Procession

It was designed to be pasted to the walls in city halls or the palaces of princes to create a decorative frieze, an expression of the Emperor's power and magnificence: a pictorial form of the contemporaneous royal entry, which like many Renaissance entries looked back to the Roman triumph.

William Segar

In 1596, Segar accompanied the Earl of Shrewsbury to invest Henry IV of France with the Order of the Garter, witnessing Henry's famed Royal entry into Rouen.


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