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A Final Coat of Arms in the Holy Spirit Church in Heidelberg, Germany
We now come to the end of our look at some of the heraldry that can be found in the Heiliggeistkirche (Holy Spirit Church, where my great-great-grandparents first met, one from each side of the wall...
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And We're Off ... to Belgium!
So, having finally finished going through my earlier pictures of heraldry in Stuttgart and Heidelberg from a couple of trips taken several years ago, we are now up to our trip to Europe in 2019, with...
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Whence Cometh Antwerp?
Or, more specifically, where does the name of the city and its coat of arms come from?Well ... Druon Antigoon was a mythical giant who lived in Antwerp. Guarding a bridge on the river Scheldt, he...
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An Amazing Array of Images of the Arms of Antwerp, Belgium
So, wandering about the city of Antwerp, Belgium, I ran across the following depictions of its coat of arms, in an amazing display of heraldry.Carved into a stone monument:Here, held by a cast bronze...
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A Variant of the Civic Arms of Antwerp, Belgium
So, having looked in my last post at an array of images of the arms of the city of Antwerp, this time we're going to see a variant depiction of those arms, ones in which the hands are not merely in...
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Arms of the Margraviate of Antwerp
You may have noticed, in the first picture in the last post, what appears to be another variant of the arms of the city of Antwerp; one with a charged chief.You would not be wrong, but you wouldn't be...
View ArticleA New Update to the American Heraldry Collection!
Whew! Well, it took me a couple of weeks of my "copious free time" to get it done, but I have just finished a new update to the American Heraldry Collection.This update adds the coats of arms from...
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Foreign Heraldry Found in Antwerp
As fun as it is to see the many ways that a city uses its own, regional, and national coats of arms, it is even more exciting to me to run across "foreign" heraldry; the display of arms (or flags) of...
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Changes at the Canadian Heraldic Authority
The Governor General of Canada announced today (May 20, 2020) the appointment of Samy Khalid as the new Chief Herald of Canada, and the appointment of Claire Boudreau (the former Chief Herald) as...
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The Arms of a Duchy
A third, and final, coat of arms on the facade of the City Hall of Antwerp, Belgium (at the time we were there, the building was undergoing repair and restoration, so the face of the building was...
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They Do It Here, Too!
If you have followed this blog for any length of time, you know that periodically I get on my soapbox about blank cartouches; that is, shield shapes (heater, round, oval, decorative, whatever) which...
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Well, It's Not A _Blank_ Shield, Anyway
So, what to do to follow-up on my last post, which was of a number of blank shields and shield shapes that I saw in Antwerp?How about something that isn't heraldry but that is still on a shield...
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And ... Almost Heraldry On Shields!
So, having looked at blank shields in Antwerp, Belgium, followed by stuff on shields that wasn't heraldry, we now come to some advertising that is truly almost heraldry!First off, we have the logo of...
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Sorry! I Lied. (Sort of)
Okay, I know that last time, I said we'd start looking at some real heraldry from Antwerp, Belgium. Apparently, I lied. Or was incorrect. Or I was acting on incomplete or inaccurate information. Or, to...
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The Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp, Belgium
One of the things that I enjoy most about our travels to foreign places is the opportunity it gives me to wander about the towns we are visiting and look at the art (and heraldry!) there.Having arrived...
View ArticleAnother Update!
So there I was, just minding my own business and reading some Facebook posts, when I ran across one with an image from an armorial that caught my eye. So I clicked the link to see the page it was on,...
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It's International Heraldry Day!
International Heraldry Day was initiated in 2013 by the International Association of Amateur Heralds. The day was selected as being the day in 1128 on which the 15 year old Geoffrey Plantagenet...
View ArticleWhat? Not Another Update!
Well, yes, another update.Don't get me wrong; it's annoying me, too! I mean, I've got plenty of other projects that I'm working on right now (some of them not even about heraldry!). But what am I...
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Not One But Two (Count 'em! Two!) Memorials to a Bishop
Having seen the arms of the 22nd Bishop of Antwerp, Johan Bonny, in our last post, this time we visit the two memorials in the Cathedral of Our Lady to the 7th Bishop of Antwerp, Ambrosius (or Marius)...
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Nothing Succeeds Like Excess
The next armorial memorial we're going to look at in the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp, Belgium, is a wonderfully baroque one to various members of the van Delft family.I mean, really! There is an...
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