Iron Crown
Proper noun
Meaning
the Iron Crown
(Christianity) A reliquary from the early Middle Ages, consisting of a circlet of gold and jewels fitted around a central silver band, which tradition held to be made of iron beaten out of a nail of the True Cross.
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As a result, Iron Crown cleaned up and republished the RM2 rules with new typesetting and illustrations in 2007 as Rolemaster Classic (RMC).
Charles, unusually, had himself crowned with the Iron Crown and made the magnates of Lombardy do homage to him at Pavia.
Rolemaster Express Iron Crown also published the core of the Rolemaster Classic rules, with most of the options removed, as Rolemaster Express.
The depiction is probably not accurate and was likely made solely to reinforce the claims of the cathedral on the custody of the Iron Crown.
The Iron Crown of Lombardy dates from this period.