These plates of armor would have been worn over a chain mail shirt or other body armor, and would have been fastened together with leather straps attached to the metal buckles. Th...

Breastplate

These plates of armor would have been worn over a chain mail shirt or other body armor, and would have been fastened together with leather straps attached to the metal buckles. Th...

Emperor Ferdinand II He elevates Linhart and Jiřík’s brothers Švarcparty to the Czech Vladycký state, awards them a coat of arms and a predicate from Švarcpach

Character: description on folk. 4b and 5b, miniature on folk. 5a, 172 x 214 mm. Author apparently Jiří Gabriel Mayer - see here the figure at the end of the miniature description. ...

Emperor Leopold I elevates Johann Alsterle von Aastfeldt, the secretary of the Bohemian Viceroy, to the old Bohemian Knight’s state, improves his coat of arms and confirms the predicate to be mentioned straight next to first names

Character: description on folk. 5a and 5b, miniature on folk. 6a, 156 x 156 mm. A fourth shield. 1. and 4. in gold is a black crowned eagle with red tongue 1). 2. and 3. in red the...

Emperor Ferdinand III. exalts Danyel Natanyel Kunstát from Krygsfeld, a burgher of the New Town of Prague, to the Czech Vladycký state and awards him a coat of arms

Character: description on folk. 3b - 4b, miniature on folk. 4a, 147 x 164 mm. In the red gable there is a green lawn, on it stands on the right two shirts and on the left there is ...

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