Why is the top of the Hungarian crown bent, in the coat of arms for Hungary?

Answer 1

The Hungarian Crown has had a long journey in and out of the country since King Stephen I.....King Bela IV. rescued it to the fortress of Klissa (Croatia today) from the Tartar invasion (1241), king Matthias bought it back from Vienna for an astrological [astronomical] price (1463), Peter Perenyi hid it in his citadel of Fuzer from the Ottoman invasion (1526), Louis Kossuth dug it underground in an iron chest near Orsova (Romania today) after the surrender to the Habsburgs at Vilagos (1849) and Ferenc Szalasi rescued it to Austria from the invading Red Army and dug it underground in an oil barrel (1945).Supporters of the extreme right-wing Hungarian government at the end of the Second World War took the crown to the West, where it came into the hands of the US military. The crown and other crown jewels were then kept in the United States(Ft Knox), and some repairs even done to them, until 1978, when Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, at the behest of President Carter, ceremoniously returned them to Hungary. Since then, the crown and regalia have been on public display at the Hungarian National Museum.......
But the most supported idea is that is bent when Louis Kossuth burried it,to hide it from the Habsburgs.

Answer 2

Interesting question and thanks for sharing your curiosity!

I looked it up and found that:

"The crown on the Hungarian arms is the Crown of St. Stephen, an actual crown that was used to crown the Hungarian kings. In the 18th century the cross on the crown was bent and since then it is so depicted on the Hungarian arms.
Nahum Shereshevsky, 11 May 1997"

Another piece of Trivia for me!! ;)

Answer 3

From "Crown Jewels of Britain and Europe" by Prince Michael of Greece, Peerage Books, London, 1990 (first edition 1983 by Dent & Sons, 144 p), on p. 120 it says:
"In 1848, when the revolutionary tides reached Hungary, the population, under the leadership of the poet Louis Kossuth, rose against the Austrians and the oppressive domination of the Habsburgs. But the Russians crushed the revolt. Kossuth ran away with the crown, and buried it under a tree. A traitor sold the information to the Austrians, who extracted the crown and brought it back to Royal Castle of Buda in great pomp. In its tribulations the crown had slightly suffered and the cross surmounting it had been twisted. It was never righted, perhaps in order to symbolize the freedom of Hungary."
Some additional info from: Gert Oswald, Lexikon der Heraldik (Heraldic Lexicon), Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig, 1984, 478 p., lemma "Stephanskrone" on p. 381: The crown was buried near Orsova from 1848 till 1853. A book on the crown is listed: J. Deér, Die heilige Krone Ungarns (Hungary's holy crown), Wien (Vienna), 1966.
Jan Mertens, 27 April 2003

Answer 4

The crown featured is the Crown of St. Stephen and there are many theories as to why it is bent.

Answer 5

The Pope dropped it when he was crowning the Hungarian king.

Answer 6

Because that's the way the actual crown looks...

http://www.historicaltextarchive.com/hungary/hungcr4.gif