The last post in the series on evaluating armorials is a case study of the famous Grünenberg armorial, in which different elements that have been discussed in the previous posts return. There is one question that is seldom asked: How reliable is the studied armorial – or to rephrase it: Can we trust a single occurrence of a coat of arms? The answer would in any case be...
The first part of these series on evaluating armorials dealt with the identification of coats of arms in armorials. It appeared that many armorials were copied and that copyists were prone to make mistakes. This sometimes leaves the researcher with different coats of arms for the same family. This post deals with the problematic of these variant coats of arms more thoroughly by discussing their origins and how they...
Recent Publications – Update December 2023
22/12/2023
Recent Publications – Update December 2023
22/12/2023
