The Throne of Charlemagne in Aachen Cathedral
The stone throne in the upper gallery of the Palatine Chapel at Aachen. Its slabs are plain marble, reputedly brought from Jerusalem, mounted on six steps in imitation of Solomon's throne. Thirty-one German kings were crowned on it between 936 and 1531.
Charlemagne's court was a project as much as a place. He gathered scholars from England, Ireland, Italy and Spain, standardised a script legible enough to be copied accurately across the empire, ordered schools attached to monasteries and cathedrals, and had classical texts recopied at a rate that determines which of them survive at all. The chapel he built at Aachen borrowed from Ravenna and Rome; the throne inside it borrowed from Solomon. Both were claims about what a Frankish king now was. See Charlemagne and the Carolingian intellectual revival.
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