Coronet: Difference between revisions – Wikipedia
* [[King of France|Roi]] (sovereign): closed crown of [[Fleur-de-lis|fleurs-de-lis]] (the crown was open until the early 16th century)
* [[King of France|Roi]] (sovereign): closed crown of [[Fleur-de-lis|fleurs-de-lis]] (the crown was open until the early 16th century)
* [[Dauphin of France|Dauphin]] (heir apparent): initially an open crown of fleurs-de-lis; starting with [[Henry IV of France|Henri IV]]’s son (1601–10), the crown is closed with dolphins instead of arches
* [[Dauphin of France|Dauphin]] (heir apparent): initially an open crown of fleurs-de-lis; starting with [[Henry IV of France|Henri IV]]’s son (1601–10), the crown is closed with dolphins instead of arches
* [[Fils de France]] and [[Fils de France#Petit-fils de France|Petit-fils de France]] (sons and grandsons of a sovereign): open coronet of fleurs-de-lis
* [[Fils de France]] and [[Fils de France#Petit-fils de France|Petit-fils de France]] (sons and grandsons of a sovereign): open coronet of fleurs-de-lis
* [[Prince du sang]] (male-line descendants of a sovereign): originally an open coronet alternating fleurs-de-lis and [[Acanthus (plant)|acanthus]] leaves (called strawberry leaves in English blazon), but the open coronet of fleurs-de-lis was used in the 17th and 18th centuries
* [[Prince du sang]] (male-line descendants of a sovereign): originally an open coronet alternating fleurs-de-lis and [[Acanthus (plant)|acanthus]] leaves (called strawberry leaves in English blazon), but the open coronet of fleurs-de-lis was used in the 17th and 18th centuries
* [[Peerage of France|Pair de France]] (peer of the realm): coronet of the title (usually duke) with a blue velvet [[Bonnet (headgear)#Men|bonnet]], along with a mantle ”armoyé” (reproducing the arms) fringed with gold and lined with [[Ermine (heraldry)|ermine]]
* [[Peerage of France|Pair de France]] (peer of the realm): coronet of the title (usually duke) with a blue velvet [[Bonnet (headgear)#Men|bonnet]], along with a mantle ”armoyé” (reproducing the arms) fringed with gold and lined with [[Ermine (heraldry)|ermine]]
File:Royal Crown of France (red lozenge).svg|[[King of France|Roi]]
File:Royal Crown of France (red lozenge).svg|[[King of France|Roi]]
File:Crown of the Dauphin of France.svg|[[Dauphin of France|Dauphin]]
File:Crown of the Dauphin of France.svg|[[Dauphin of France|Dauphin]]
File:Crown of a Royal Prince of the Blood of France (variant).svg|[[Fils de France]]
[[Fils de France#Petit-fils de France|Petit-fils de France]]
File:Crown of a Royal Prince of the Blood of France (variant).svg|[[Fils de France]]
[[Fils de France#Petit-fils de France|Petit-fils de France]]
File:Crown of a Prince of the Blood of France (variant).svg|[[Prince du sang]]
File:Crown of a Prince of the Blood of France (variant).svg|[[Prince du sang]]
File:Crown of a Duke of France.svg|[[Duke|Duc]] (peer)
File:Crown of a Duke of France.svg|[[Duke|Duc]] (peer)
Small crown consisting of ornaments fixed on a metal ring
A coronet is a small crown consisting of ornaments fixed on a metal ring. A coronet differs from other kinds of crowns in that most coronets do not have arches, and from a tiara in that a coronet completely encircles the head, while a tiara does not.
In other languages, this distinction is not made as usually the same word for crown is used irrespective of rank (German: Krone, Dutch: Kroon, Swedish: Krona, French: Couronne, etc.)
Today, its main use is not as a headgear (indeed, many people entitled to a coronet never have a physical one created), but as a rank symbol in heraldry, adorning someone’s coat of arms.
Etymology[edit]
The word stems from the Old French coronete, a diminutive of co(u)ronne (‘crown’), itself from the Latin: corona, lit. ‘crown, wreath’ and from the Ancient Greek: κορώνη, romanized: korōnē, lit. ‘garland, wreath’.
Traditionally, such headgear is used by nobles and by princes and princesses in their coats of arms, rather than by monarchs, for whom the word ‘crown’ is customarily reserved in English, while many languages have no such terminological distinction. As a coronet shows the rank of the respective noble, in the German and Scandinavian languages there is also the term rangkrone (literally ‘rank crown’).
Commonwealth usage[edit]
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Traditionally, in the United Kingdom, a peer wears the coronet on one occasion only: for a royal coronation, when it is worn along with coronation robes, equally standardised as a…
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