crown-wearings

Updated: May 6, 2025

Two weeks later the king was re-crowned at Winchester, apparently with something less of formal ceremony than in his original coronation, but with much more than in the annual crown-wearings of the Norman kings, a practice which had now been dropped for almost forty years.

George Burton Adams - The History of England from the Norman Conquest: to the Death of John (1066-1216)