Royal Lance

Some articles on lance:

Relics Claimed To Be The Holy Lance - Vienna Lance (Hofburg Spear)
... The Holy Roman Emperors had a lance of their own, attested from the time of Otto I (912-973) ... In 1000 Otto III gave Boleslaw I of Poland a replica of the Lance at the Congress of Gniezno ... This was based on the belief that this was the lance of Constantine the Great which enshrined a nail used for the Crucifixion ...

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