King Louis IV and King Lothar I, kings of the Franks
King Louis IV and King Lothar I "Louis IV (81) wears a long tunic and a mantle that is not fastened anywhere with a clasp, just simply thrown over the breast; his crown is closed like a diadem, and his sceptre ends in a pine cone." "Lothar I (82) is clothed like Louis IV, only his mantle is shorter and arranged like a Greek chlamys; the mantle is bordered with gold embroidery. The crown is a simple circle with several raised flowers; the sceptre is similarly surmounted with a flower." "To the Franks and the Anglo Saxons, [the mantle] was reserved for persons of elevated rank (81)." Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's "Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages" (1796).
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