
The “Cape of Charlemagne” is a large red silk cloak woven with gold on silver threads and adorned with 4 eagles, griffons and roses. The cope was probably made in 1204 CE, and was in fact the coronation mantle of Frederick II, King of Sicily and Holy Roman Emperor [1600×3077]
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Now housed at the treasury of Metz Cathedral in France.
I wonder what the snake biting the eagle, and its crying, symbolize?
Compare with the [Coronation Mantle of Roger II of Sicily](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Austria-03366_-_Coronation_Mantle_%2832936320465%29.jpg), who was Frederick’s maternal grandfather.