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A Long Overdue Update
It's taken me a very long time, but I've finally gotten around to framing and hanging the large (20" x 20", or about 51 cm x 51 cm) Flemish heraldic tile that I blogged about on December 13, 2010...
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In a recent (January 25, 2013) post over on The French Genealogy Blog, blogger Anne Morddel writes about The Cabinet des Titres, the Cabinet of Titles, a part of the French manuscripts collection at...
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American Heraldry in a Danish Heraldic Exhibition
Or, at least, an American President's heraldry.At last fall's International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences, Danish heraldic artist Ronny Andersen kindly gave me a copy of the catalog...
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The Arms of Heidelberg
So, to get back on track from our trip last fall, as I mentioned we took a few days and spent them in Heidelberg, Germany. We were there mostly to visit places (streets, possible houses, and churches)...
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A "Pair" of Arms in Heidelberg
Wandering about the streets of Heidelberg with a digital camera that looked like it had been implanted in or glued to my face ...Jo Ann claims this is how she saw mefor much of our time in Europe,,,...
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Coats of Arms at Heidelberg University
Continuing our heraldic tour of Heidelberg, Germany, we must naturally enough go by the University. The city has been a university town for literally centuries. Founded in 1386, the university is the...
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More Heraldry in Heidelberg
One of the big tourist destinations in Heidelberg is the Hotel Zum Ritter, which in addition to being a fine old building, has various displays of heraldry about it.As their name suggests (Hotel at the...
View ArticleEcclesiastical Heraldry in the Blogosphere
There's a short but informative post today over on the blog Seasons of Grace by blogger Kathy Schiffer on what will be the arms of the Vatican when Pope Benedict XVI steps down later this week. It's...
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Faux Heraldry in Heidelberg
There were, of course, some displays of "heraldry" in Heidelberg which were not coats of arms at all, but merely aped real heraldry. I present to you the following examples:The example above from a...
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The Golden Pike, Heidelberg
So, continuing our wandering about the Altstadt, the Old City of Heidelberg, we ran across a hotel near the Old Bridge with a coat of arms and by the name Goldener Hecht.It's a beautifully done...
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Memorial Heraldry in Heidelberg
We spent a lot of our time in Heidelberg in and around two churches: the Heiliggeistekirche (the Holy Spirit Church) and Der Peterskirche (Peter's Church). Before getting to the heraldry we saw there,...
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Ecclesiastical Heraldry in the News!
No, I don’t (yet) mean the arms of the new Pope. The new Bishop of Las Cruces, New Mexico, the Most Reverend Oscar Cantu, has his coat of arms emblazoned, blazoned, and discussed in an article on the...
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Ecclesiastical Heraldry in the News!
Okay, this time it’s about the Pope’s arms.In an article in the National Post, Father Raymond J. de Souza notes the removal on Wednesday, March 6, 2013, of recently-retired Pope Benedict XVI’s arms...
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Heraldry in the News!
In several news articles from mid-February of this year, Deal Town Council and Deal Town FC, in Kent, England have learned the emblem they use is invalid because it is the old coat of arms of the...
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More Memorial Heraldry at Peterskirche in Heidelberg
Continuing with some more of the heraldic memorials found on the exterior of Peterskirche in Heidelberg, we have:These arms, of a stork with a snake in its beak, are found on the monument to Joanni...
View ArticleAnd Now for Something Completely Different
If you'll pardon my stealing that line from Monty Python's Flying Circus for my title.I am going to be presenting my very first webinar this coming Thursday evening, March 21, at 9:00 p.m. Eastern...
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Some Unusual Memorial Heraldry at Peterskirche
I'd love to know more about the following memorial. The inscription is hard to make out; in the topmost (and best preserved) of three panels of inscriptions, about 1/3 of the words are completely worn...
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Heraldry in the News!
In a post last week (March 13, 2013), I noted several news articles about the town of Deal in Kent, England, which had been told that the coat of arms they were using was not legitimately theirs to...
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A Request for Assistance
A reader of this blog has sent me a photograph of a coat of arms on an enameled blown glass jar made in Venice circa 1500. He hoped that I would be able to help him identify the heraldry on the jar....
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Heraldry in the News!
O. M. G.In a March 14, 2013 article at Volume One, entitled "A Coat of Arms for Eau Claire?," Eau Claire, Wisconsin, City Councilman David Duax has been spearheading an effort to get the city to adopt...
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