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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