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I Know, I Know! I'm an Awful Person
Or at least, I've been informed that I am, because apparently I ruin some people's fun by telling them that something that they've done could have been better and more historically accurate without any...
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More Civic Arms
Are you getting tired of all of these armorial stained glass windows yet? Never fear, we are nearing the end, and can then move on to other heraldry (e.g., some of the painted arms on the walls and...
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A Tale of Two Families
Or, at least, the windows and paintings of the coats of arms of two families.Today, we're going to review the stained glass windows and paintings memorializing one of these two families. Next time,...
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The Second of Two Families
In this post, we're going to look at the quartered arms of the other family whose arms are seen with those of the Ullens (the first family we looked in the previous post) in the windows of the...
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Geelhand and Ullens: Two Families Together, Part 1
Well, this may take a little longer than I had originally supposed. I've been looking in greater detail at the images I have from the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp, and it looks like it's going to...
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Geelhand and Ullens: Two Families Together, Part 2
Our next armorial stained glass window doesn't have quite as much heraldry in it as the last one, but is well worth looking at on its own.In the main scene of this window, created by Edouard Didron in...
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Geelhand and Ullens: Two Families Together, Part 3
This next window has the same donors (Jacob Ullens and Clementia Geelhand), designer (Edouard Didron), and year of installation (1872) as the last armorial window we looked at in the Cathedral of Our...
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Geelhand and Ullens: Two Families Together, The Final Part
This will be our final stops for the arms of the Geelhand and Ullens families, I promise!For our first stop, we have yet another window donated to the Cathedral of Our Lady, in Antwerp, Belgium, by the...
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A Very Rare Medieval Seal Matrix Discovered
A recent (September 12, 2020) post on The History Blog remarks on the discovery (back in April 2019) of the silver armorial seal matrix dating back to the late 13th or early 14th Century.The seal...
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Three More Saints
I swear, I learn so much history in researching these armorial stained glass windows. Even when I'm left with a few questions, or even one question (as in this window today), there is so much more that...
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A Passel* of Popes
* Passel: a large group of people or things of indeterminate number; a pack.You may be happy to know that, with one exception in the next couple of posts, we have finished our review of the armorial...
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Inside and Outside the Cathedral in Antwerp, Part 1 of 3
We are now winding down our review of, well, not all, but certainly a lot of the heraldry to be found in the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp, Belgium.As a part of that, we're going to be looking at...
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Inside and Outside the Cathedral in Antwerp, Part 2 of 3
The other coat of arms which I ran across both inside and outside of the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp, Belgium, was that - with some differences - of the Violieren.The Violieren (wallflower or...
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Inside and Outside the Cathedral in Antwerp, Part 3 of 3
One final coat of arms of which I found examples both inside and outside of the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp, Belgium, were the arms of the Bakers GuildIt's a great, simple, and immediately...
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Arms on the House of the Archers
Along one side of the main square in old Antwerp is a row of several ornately decorated guild houses.One of these is the Huis van de Schutters, the home of the Sint-Joris Guild of Archers. This is a...
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Two Displays of Heraldry
In this, the final post of my heraldic excursions in and about Antwerp, Belgium, we come to two very nice displays of heraldry.Participants in the Congress were invited to a reception at the City...
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A Day-Long, Long-Day Excursion to Ghent
So, having (finally!) finished our heraldic tour of Antwerp, the Congress we were attending there had, for those who so desired, a day-long excursion to the nearby city of Gent/Ghent.Yes, the same city...
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Civic Heraldry on the Jacob van Artevelde Monument in Ghent
Below the statue of Jacob van Artevelde in Vrijdagmarkt ("Friday Market") Square in the old city of Gent/Ghent, it is just chock-a-block full of coats of arms.Most notable among these, however, each...
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Guild Arms on the Jacob van Artevelde Monument in Ghent
Completely encircling (and I do mean literally all the way around) the plinth of the Jacob van Artevelde monument in Vrijdagmarkt Square in the city of Ghent, Belgium, is a plethora of shields of the...
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Squirrel!
Whenever I'm walking the streets of a new town - like, for instance, Ghent, Belgium - I feel like my head is on a swivel. I mean, I can usually be seen walking along, camera in hand, looking this way...
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