coronation of the Holy Roman Emperor - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

For one phase of this process, the central figure was allowed to recruit knights for a 410-day Italienzug, which local rulers could get out of by paying a tax called the Roman Month. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this process whose multiple steps took place in locations like Arles Cathedral and Aachen’s Palatine Chapel, where St. Stephen’s Purse was placed in a niche in the “archstool of the whole realm.”

ANSWER: coronation of the Holy Roman Emperor [accept Emperor of the Romans or Roman-German Emperor in place of “Holy Roman Emperor”; accept crowning in place of “coronation”; prompt on coronation or crowning by asking “of the holder of which title?”; prompt on King of the Romans, King of the Franks, King in Germania, Roman-German King, German King, King of Italy, or King of Burgundy by asking “what overarching title did that ruler also hold?”]

[10e] The destination of an Italienzug was Rome, where the Holy Roman Emperor would be crowned by the pope, symbolically recalling the coronation of this King of the Franks by Leo III on Christmas Day 800.

ANSWER: Charlemagne [or Charles the Great; or Carolus Magnus; or Karl der Große; or Charles le Grand; prompt on Charles]

[10h] By the reign of Henry VII in the 14th century, it was traditional for the Holy Roman Emperor to also be crowned King of Italy in Milan using this object, which supposedly contained a nail from the True Cross.

ANSWER: Iron Crown of Lombardy [prompt on Crown of Lombardy]

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California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	13.33	100%	0%	33%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	11	16.36	100%	36%	27%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	20.00	100%	33%	67%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	18.00	100%	40%	40%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	13.75	100%	25%	13%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	15.00	100%	13%	38%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	5	20.00	100%	60%	40%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	12.86	100%	14%	14%
UK	Main Site	Y	6	15.00	100%	17%	33%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	17.78	100%	33%	44%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	3	20.00	100%	33%	67%

Data


Berkeley B	Berkeley A	0	10	0	10
Berkeley C	Berkeley D	0	10	0	10
Stanford A	Stanford B	0	10	10	20
Arizona State	UCLA B	10	10	0	20
UC Santa Barbara	UCSD C	0	10	0	10
UCLA A	UC Irvine	10	10	0	20
UCSD B	UCSD A	10	10	0	20
Florida C	Central Florida B	0	10	10	20
Central Florida A	Florida A	0	10	0	10
Florida B	Central Florida C	10	10	10	30
Brock	McGill B	0	10	0	10
Guelph	Toronto E	0	10	0	10
Waterloo B	McGill A	10	10	0	20
Queen's	McMaster A	10	10	10	30
Ottawa	Toronto B	0	10	0	10
Toronto C	Simon Fraser	0	10	0	10
Toronto Metropolitan	Toronto D	10	10	0	20
McMaster B	Toronto F	0	10	0	10
UBC A	Waterloo A	10	10	10	30
Carleton University	UBC B	0	10	10	20
Toronto G	Western C	0	10	0	10
Liberty A	North Carolina B	10	10	0	20
NC State A	Liberty B	0	10	0	10
North Carolina A	Duke	0	10	0	10
North Carolina C	Virginia Tech A	0	10	10	20
South Carolina B	James Madison B	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech B	South Carolina A	0	10	0	10
Virginia	James Madison A	10	10	0	20
William and Mary	VCU	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Ohio State B	0	10	10	20
Michigan B	Michigan State	0	10	0	10
CWRU A	Michigan C	10	10	10	30
Ohio State C	Ohio State A	0	10	0	10
CWRU B	Pittsburgh	10	10	0	20
Illinois A	Chicago B	0	10	0	10
Chicago E	Chicago A	10	10	10	30
Illinois C	Indiana C	0	10	10	20
Northwestern B	Indiana B	0	10	10	20
Northwestern C	Notre Dame A	0	10	0	10
Northwestern D	Chicago D	0	10	0	10
Purdue A	Notre Dame B	0	10	0	10
Purdue B	Chicago C	0	10	0	10
Brandeis A	Dartmouth A	10	10	0	20
Brandeis B	Harvard B	0	10	0	10
Dartmouth B	Brown	10	10	0	20
Harvard A	Southern Connecticut State	10	10	10	30
Yale	MIT	0	10	10	20
Carleton College	Missouri B	10	10	0	20
Minnesota A	Georgia Tech A	0	10	0	10
Claremont	Washington B	0	10	0	10
Texas A&M A	Murray State A	10	10	0	20
Texas B	Texas A	0	10	0	10
WashU A	Bruin	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech B	10	10	0	20
Louisville B	Alabama A	0	10	0	10
Mississipi State	Alabama B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Tennessee A	0	10	0	10
Vanderbilt B	Louisville A	0	10	0	10
WashU B	Kentucky	0	10	0	10
Cambridge B	City St. George's	0	10	0	10
Cambridge C	LSE	0	10	0	10
Edinburgh B	Bristol	0	10	0	10
Oxford A	Imperial C	0	10	10	20
Durham	Oxford B	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	UCL	10	10	10	30
Rutgers A	Maryland C	0	10	10	20
Vassar	NYU C	0	10	0	10
Cornell A	Cornell B	10	10	10	30
Rochester	Cornell C	0	10	0	10
Penn State	RIT	0	10	10	20
Catholic	Maryland B	0	10	0	10
Rutgers B	Columbia C	0	10	0	10
Georgetown	Swarthmore	10	10	10	30
Johns Hopkins B	John Jay	0	10	0	10
Columbia A	Johns Hopkins A	10	10	10	30
NYU A	Maryland A	10	10	0	20
Columbia B	NYU B	0	10	10	20