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Varazdin
16th to 17th century
Glass, panted
diameter 19.8 cm, thickness 0.4 cm
The shield divided: in the upper, red part a crowned walking griffin walking to the right; in the lower, silver part two wavy red bars. Ornament: helmet with a crown from which a golden crowned griffin springs; heraldic tent gold and red, red and gold.
Donated by Count Ivan Nepomuk Erdody in 1856.
V. Brajkovic, Grbovi, grbovnice, rodoslovlja, Zagreb, 1995, page 110.
In the first inventories of the National Museum, this coat of arms was mistakenly identified as the coat of arms of the Ungnad family. From the revision of the collection done in 1976, the coat of arms is classed as the coat of arms of an unknown family, and was as such published in two editions of the catalogue of the Collection of Coats of Arms, Royal Grants of Coats of Arms and Genealogies. See literature: V. Brajkovic, from 1976 and 1995. Due to a negligible difference from Bojnicic's description of the Losonczy coat of arms (in I. Bojnicic, Der Adel von Kroatien und Slavonien, Nurnberg: 1899, page 105) it is very probable that it belongs to that family.
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