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Heraldry in Maastricht, Part Ten
Okay, as promised, here are two more armorial stained glass windows in the Basilica of St. Servaas in Maastricht.This one contains two more female saints, St. Catherine and St. Teresa.The armorial...
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Heraldry in Maastricht, Part Eleven
Continuing with more highlights from our heraldic tour of St. Servaas Basilica in Maastricht, there were lots and lots of carved armorial (and a bunch of non-armorial) memorials set into the floors....
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Heraldry in Maastricht, Part Twelve
For the final heraldic offering from the ridiculously large number of photographs I took in the Basilica of St. Servaas in Maastricht, is this beautiful triptych set in a side (presumably private)...
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Heraldry in Maastricht, Part Thirteen
Leaving the Basilica of St. Servaas and walking along one side of Vrijthof Square, we come to the Museum aan het Vrijthof (previously the Museum Spaans Gouvernement), a museum of local history, art and...
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Heraldry in Maastricht, Part Fourteen
Next door to the Museum aan het Vrijthof (the red building just barely showing on the right in the photograph below, and which I discussed in my last post) is a white brick building housing the GE...
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Heraldry in the News
I’ve been so busy lately, what with working full-time, keeping my website up-to-date (well, sort of; it really needs a good going-over), doing all of the necessary weekly chores that come with owning a...
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Heraldry in the News
A recent article in the Evesham Journal (dated November 23, 2012) asks the question, “Is town’s old coat of arms worth £2,500?”The article notes that £2,685 will be the cost to the town council to have...
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A Christmas-related Post
So I was thinking about what I might post as a celebration of the season that also related to heraldry, and I was reminded while looking through a recently downloaded armorial that coats of arms were...
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Heraldry-Like Items in Maastricht
One of the things foreigners in the Low Countries notice, especially those keeping an eye out for coats of arms and heraldry, are the house signs one sees on the facades of buildings. Maastricht was...
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Unexpected Heraldry in Maastricht
One bit of heraldry that I did not expect to run across in Maastricht was the following, used as a house sign; that it was the house sign for a shop called Jacks and Jeans was even less expected.As you...
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Faux Heraldry in Maastricht
One of the, well, not "pleasures" exactly, of seeking out heraldry when I travel is the imitation or fake heraldry that I run across. And this even in cities that are chock full of the real thing....
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Heraldry in Maastricht, Part Eighteen
For our antepenultimate heraldic stop in Maastricht, we have the stone memorials lined up the outside of St. Mathias church (just around the corner from the State House and Market Square). The...
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Heraldry in Maastricht, Part Nineteen
So in this next to last post about the heraldry in Maastricht, I know this should come as no surprise to you, but they seem to drink a lot of beer in the Low Countries. And, as a consequence, they...
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Heraldry in Maastricht, Part Twenty (and Finis)
In this, the final, installment of some of the heraldry seen in Maastricht, The Netherlands, we have the heraldry that you are most likely to see when you enter the town and again on your way out when...
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Unexpected Heraldry in Aachen, Germany
On Wednesday, September 26, 2012, those attendees of the International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences (attendance at which is the reason we were in Maastricht then) who desired had the...
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A Castle With Heraldry
Another place we visited and got to spend some good time wandering through was the Kasteel Hoensbroek near Hoensbroek, a town in the municipality of Heerlen, The Netherlands.It's a bit of a tourist...
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Heraldry in the News!
There was a nice little article last month (December 25, 2012) about Sir William Strickland, the man who is believed to have introduced that New World bird, the turkey, into England, which included a...
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Some Real, Not Reel, Heraldry
Well, this was fun! For those of us here in the States, the third season of the British series Downton Abbey has finally begun to air here. And as part of the run-up to the broadcast of the first...
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Heraldry in the Blogosphere
Puttering about on the internet as I do sometimes, I occasionally run across a blog post in one place or another that relates to heraldry. And just such a serendipitous find occurred today, when I ran...
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Heraldry in Frankfurt, Germany
After the Congress in Maastricht had finished up, Jo Ann and I hopped the train for Heidelberg, Germany. (My great-grandfather was born there, and I'd had a genealogist trace the family as far back as...
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