COLOUR COATS-OF-ARMS ON THE MEDIEVAL FONT IN THE GNIEZNO CATHEDRAL (Barwne herby na sredniowiecznej chrzcielnicy z katedry w Gnieznie)

• Authors: Strozyk Pawel
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

In the Gniezno cathedral there is a metal font from 1448 with six coloured coats-of-arms of Polish knightly families. They are arranged in two groups of three arms. In spite of considerable damages of the polychromy they can be identified, though partly hypothetically only. There are the following arms on the font: Roch (?) Zareba Jelita, Odrowaz lub Ogon (?) Jastrzebiec Kopacz. The order of 'reading' the arms is: 2, 1, 3 and 5, 4, 6. The Zaremba arms belonged to the founder of the font, Jan of Brzostków, a canon of Gniezno. Those on its sides (2, 3) may have belonged to persons from his family. The other group of arms (4, 5, 6) should be connected with members of the Gniezno chapter.

Keywords

EN

COATS-OF-ARMS; GNIEZNO CATHEDRAL (15TH C.); POLYCHROMY

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla PAN w Warszawie
• Journal: Roczniki Historyczne
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 74
• Pages: 179-192
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Strozyk Pawel

• Pawel Strozyk, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza, Instytut Historii, ul. Sw. Marcin 78, 61-809 Poznan, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA06328