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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are ... Dining?: Heraldry in Frederiksborg...
To finish our look at the three embroidered armorial tablecloths in this exhibit at Frederiksborg Castle, each with increasingly greater numbers of shields on them, we come to the final tablecloth,...
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A Letter Patent of Nobility, With Two Kinds of Heraldry
In one part of Frederiksborg Castle in Denmark was a case with a patent of nobility (and grant of arms?).This letter patent was issued by King Frederick IV of Denmark and Norway in 1716 ennobling Peter...
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An Old Armorial Chest
We've all got stuff, right? And we all need places in which to store our stuff, correct? Well, what could be better for storing your stuff than an old carved wooden chest with some of the family's...
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A Couple More Armorial Chests
This next armorial chest is (or at least its armorial panels are) dated 1618 and, frankly, has a lot more inlay work on it than I would be willing to try myself. (And I'm pretty sure it would be...
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A Final Two Armorial Chests
Just in case you didn't feel inspired to combine your love of heraldry with a practical way of storing some of you seasonal belongings, here's two more armorial chests from Frederiksborg Castle in...
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It's Good to Be ... a Rosenkrantz
Well, admittedly, it may not be so good to be a Rosencrantz in a Shakespeare play, since not only do you die in the end, you don't even get to die on-stage. Someone walks onto the stage and announces...
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In addition to these regular (and sometimes irregular) posts, I will periodically find something or add to something I've created, and will add it to one or another of the sections in the left-hand...
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Moving On From Frederiksborg Castle
So, having finished up our review of the plethora of heraldry to be found in Frederiksborg Castle in Denmark, we are going to move on to the town and cathedral of Roskilde. (Wikipedia informs us that:...
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Nice Ironwork!
Inside Roskilde Cathedral in Denmark, long before you can get to the primary attractions there - the sarcophagi of the Danish Kings and Queens - you walk past some wonderfully wrought iron screens.And...
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Now _This_ Is an Armorial Memorial Board
Further into the Cathedral in Roskilde, Denmark, we came across this very large, detailed, carved and painted armorial memorial, dated 1666.Rather than switch out my camera's lens to get the whole...
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Roskilde Cathedral: Some Background, and Some Non-Royal Burials
I realized as I sat down to write this post, that I hadn't mentioned any background information about the Cathedral in Roskilde, Denmark.In brief: the Roskilde Cathedral was built in the 12th-century....
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It's Been 400 Years!
Today, Thursday, November 25, 2021, is Thanksgiving Day here in the United States.And it was exactly 400 years ago (well, they probably celebrated it sometime in October, rather than in November) that...
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Armorial Memorial to a Daughter and Wife
There are almost always some issues with traveling to foreign climes and taking lots of pictures of heraldry and then coming home and trying to identify to whom the arms belong. This is, at least in...
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No, I Actually _Can't_ Identify Them All
Yeah, I know, I post of lot of pictures of heraldry on this blog, and I try to identify them when I do. In spite of what appears to be a lot of success at doing so, there are actually a lot of coats of...
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And Then, Sometimes ...
So, having explained last time about how I can't always identify the arms I see and photograph during my travels, today I'm going to share an example of (mostly) the opposite. (Of course, it helped...
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Oh, Look! The Coats of Arms of Some "Old Friends"
I can't say that I am totally surprised to have run across these two very complex coats of arms that we have seen before in another setting, but I also wasn't expecting to find them here.And it's...
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The Sarcophagus of a Medieval Queen
And now we come to the main attractions of Roskilde Cathedral in Denmark -- the Royal burials.Built in the 12th and 13th Centuries, and renovated and added onto a number of times since then, Roskilde...
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An Armorial Sarcophagus
You may have noticed in one of the pictures in my last post a sarcophagus below the feet of Queen Margrete I, with the figure of an armored knight on it's top.Christopher, Duke of Lolland (1341-1363),...
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A Matching Set of Armorial Sarcophagi
Still in the area behind the main altar, in the Chancel of the Cathedral, are two more armorial sarcophagi (sarcophaguses? No, that doesn't sound right. In any event, there are two of them, and they...
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In the Chapel of the Magi (Helligtrekongers Kapel), Roskilde Cathedral
Obviously, not everyone, indeed, not every royal, entombed in Roskilde Cathedral can be buried in the chancel. I mean, really, there's only so much room available there. So other royal burials are done...
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