EditorialGuillaume Jouvenel des Ursins (1401-1472), baron de Trainel, chancellor of France under Charles VII and Louis XI. Detail of ornamental background decoration. Small bear cubs, emblems of the chancellor, support the blazons and animate the decoration aro...
EditorialPreparation for a tournament, 13th century. The king at arms holds the knights' banners, the knights salute each other, while bagpiper, horn players and drummers with blazons. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of...
EditorialAnne, Dauphine of Auvergne, 1358-1416. She wears a crown, her hair in plaits, and armorial robe with blazons of Bourbon at left (azure, gold fleurs de lys, red band) and of her family at right (azure dolphin on gold field, argent dolphin on red field)....
EditorialBlessed Francoise d'Amboise, duchess of Brittany, 1440. She wears a tiara of stars, her hair tied up, and armorial robe with blazons of Bourbon at left (azure, gold fleurs de lys) and of her family at right (azure dolphin on gold field, argent dolphin ...