Joyeuse (sword)
Joyeuse is the name of the supposed sword of Charlemagne ; the name means "joyful". Whether this is the actual sword of Charlemagne is very controversial, however, and it is most likely a later attribution. The Louvre , in which the sword is located today, dates the pommel to the 10th or 11th century, the quillons to the 12th, the handle to the 13th and the scabbard to the 19th century.
On the occasion of the coronation of King Philip III. des Bold on August 15, 1271, the sword of Charlemagne was carried for the first time in the coronation procession. The king's cousin, Count Robert II of Artois , acted as the swordtail . The sword served as an outward symbol, which was intended to underpin the connection between the Capetian ruler's ideology and Carolingian kingship. The sword was also used in all subsequent coronations up to King Charles X in 1824, including the coronation of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1804 . It was kept in the Abbey of Saint-Denis , since 1793 in the Louvre.
Some legends say that Joyeuse was forged from the same steel as Roland's Durendal or the Curtana sword . The holy lance of Longinus is said to be forged into the sword . In the Roland song it is reported that the sword changes color 30 times a day.
The weapon is not to be confused with the saber of Charlemagne , which was part of the regalia of the Holy Roman Empire .
literature
- FA Frenzel, The guide through the historical museum to Dresden with reference to tournaments and knighthood and the arts of the Middle Ages , Verlag Weigel, 1850
- Auguste Demmin, The historical development of war weapons from the Stone Age to the invention of the needle gun: a handbook of weapons, Verlag Seemann, 1869, page 163
Individual evidence
- ↑ Coronation sword and scabbard of the Kings of France on the official website of the Louvre Museum.
- ↑ Guillaume de Nangis , Gesta Philippi Regis Franciæ , ed. by M. Daunou in the Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France (RHGF) , Vol. XX (Paris, 1840), pp. 488-489