The Term "crown" in designation of The Kingdom of Aragon and The Kingdom of Bohemia in the Middle Ages

The denomination corona/crown is not exceptional in the name of the medieval state. But its meaning and sense was not always the same. The comparison of the denomination the lands of the Bohemian Crown can be led to England, France or Hungary, but to Aragon as well. The comparison of the tradition of using this denomination in Aragon and Kingdom of Bohemia is the main goal of this thesis. The part of this thesis is also devoted to the territorial expanse and territorial gains of both of them. I have chosen charters of kings of Aragon and I tried to detect the meaning ant the evolution of the term corona. From the comparison of the term corona in czech and aragon charters I got number of similarities. In both Crowns the term appears in time when the territory expands. Also the term appears in incorporation charter first. Very interesting is almost similar evolution of the position of the term corona, when at the beginng it stands next to the term regnum and finally we can find it alone. Key words: Crown of Bohemia - Crown of Aragon - Crown Lands - Kingdom - John of Luxemburg (the Blind) - Charles IV - Ramon Berenguer IV. - James I. the Conqueror - Peter III. the Great - James II. the Fair - Peter IV. the Ceremoniou