Shields and Escutcheons in the Manesse Codex

collected by Coblaith Muimnech

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This table contains shields and escutcheons with inanimate charges, including:

Above each device appears the folio number and the modern German version of the heading for the page on which it appears. Clicking on any number should take you to the Heidelberg University Library page for that folio, where you can see the device in its original context.

At least partial blazons appear below each device. They are there to make it easier for anyone looking for a specific charge or field division to find it. Many of them are very rough, and some include standard-English descriptions of elements I was unsure how to blazon (enclosed in brackets) or are simply missing parts.

 

Table 2: Inanimate Charges

Herr Rudolf von Rotenburg
(54r)

Or, a castle gules.

Herr Otto vom Turne
(194r)

Or, a tower sable.

Der Dürner
(397v)

Argent, a bell tower proper.

Graf Wernher von Homberg
(43v)

 

Or, a pitcher gules. (?)

Herr Gottfried von Neifen
(32v)

Azure, three horns sable, stringed gules.

Herr Bruno von Hornberg
(251r)

Or, in fess two horns palewise, bells to center (?), and in base a trimount couped sable.

Herr Bligger von Steinach
(182v)

Azure, a harp or.

Herr Reinmar der Fiedler
(312r)

Azure, a fiddle (?) or.

Von Buchheim
(271r)

Gules, an open folio argent lettered sable.

 Meister Heinrich Teschler
(281v)

Argent, a purse sable.

Heinrich von Tettingen
(361r)

Or, a sickle proper.

Von Stadegge
(257v)

Gules, three dice argent.

   Der von Gliers
(66v)

Gules, a key or.

Der Burggraf von Regensburg
(318r)

Gules, in saltire two keys or.

Schenk Ulrich von Winterstetten
(84v)

Or, a crampon bendwise reversed sable.

Rost, Kirchherr zu Sarnen
(285r)

Argent, a gridiron sable within a bordure gules semy of cinquefoils or.

I've also put this device in the "animate charges" table, with the cinquefoils. 

Regenbogen
(381r)

Argent, in bend sinister a hammer proper, a snake glissant knowed vert and a pair of tongs sable, all bendwise. ???

I've also put this device in the "animate charges" table, for the snake.

Herr Wolfram von Eschenbach
(149v)

Gules, two cleavers sable addorsed.

Von Suonegge
(202v)

Azure, a cushion sable [marked in some way] argent (?).

  Herr Rubin
(169v)

Azure, a finger-ring or gemmed gules.

Johann von Ringgenberg
(190v)

Gules, in pale a D-shaped buckle tongue to chief and a tri-mount couped sable. 

Herr Wilhelm von Heinzenburg
(162v)

Azure, an arming buckle Or
gemmed of diverse tinctures.

 Der Schenk von Limpurg
(82v)

Azure, three flanged maces sable.

 Herr Heinrich von Stretlingen
(70v)

Or, an arrowhead throughout bendwise inverted gules.

Herr Wachsmut von Mühlhausen
(183v)

Azure, three arrowheads inverted in pall or. 

Der von Kürenberg
(63r)

Or, [some charge] azure.

Herr Wernher von Teufen
(69r)

Gules, a helm affronty or crested with a demi-eagle sable.

Der Litschauer
(422r)

Or, a helm gules crested with an eagle's wing azure veined with ivy argent.

Herzog Johann von Brabant
(18r)

Per bend gules and vert, in chief a spur rowel argent.

Von Trostberg
(255r)

Azure, a spur rowel sable pierced gules fimbriated argent.

Graf Wernher von Homberg
(43v)

Gules, in chief a mullet of eight points argent.

Winli
(231r)

Argent, three mullets of eight points sable and a label gules.

Herr Heinrich von der Mure
(75v)

Azure, on a bend sable two mullets of eight points or.

Herr Heinrich von Morungen
(76v)

Azure, three crescents sable, each [tipped with] two mullets of eight points or.

Der Winsbeke
(213r)

Azure, three bezants.

König Konrad der Junge
(7r)

Or, a Latin cross botony sable.

Graf Wernher von Homberg
(43v)

Or, a fleur-de-lys gules.

Kristan von Luppin, eine Thüring
(226v)

Argent, Argent, issuant from the
topmost of scarpes gemel a demi-fleur-de-lys gules.

 Herr Bergner von Horheim
(178r)

Azure, four fleurs-de-lys in cross points to center or.

Herr Niune
(319r)

Per chevron azure and or fleury at the point.

Graf Friedrich von Leiningen
(26r)

Sable, [some writing] argent.

Herr Alram von Gresten
(311r)

Or, on a bend azure the word "Amor" argent

 


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