The Investiture

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What Every Dame and Knight Ought to Know About a Diamond

What Every Dame and Knight Ought to Know About a Diamond

Along with transition of the Order of the Golden Fleece into the House o Habsburg, engagement of Emperor Maximilan I and Mary of Burgundy marked the birth of the first diamond engagement ring, ever!

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Diamonds have always been a special treasure throughout our history. Pliny, the Roman naturalist, emphasized as early as the first century that diamonds are "...the most valuable, not only of precious stones but of all the things in this world."

Marriage of Emperor Maximilian I and Princes Mary of Burgundy, painting by Anton Peter, 1813

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