The website discussing the history, personalities, and heraldry of Český Krumlov, Czechia (https://encyklopedie.ckrumlov.cz/cz/mesto_histor_himeck/#gsc.tab=0) informs us: "The town lived through the greatest cultural and economic bloom during the Renaissance, under the rule of Wilhelm von Rosenberg and thus there are mostly allied emblems of Wilhelm and his wives - Katherine of Brunschwig, Mary Ann of Baden, or Polyxena of Pernštejn."
Today, we're going to see the heraldic evidences to be seen in the town of the second of those marriages, between Wilhelm von Rosenberg (1535-1592) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_of_Rosenberg) and Anna Maria von Baden (1562-1583. Just 21 when she died!) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Maria_of_Baden) (mistranslated by Google as "Mary Ann of Baden" above).
Here (above) on the side of this building we see, on the left, the Rosenberg ("Rosenberg modern") arms that were discussed in my last post, and on the right, the arms of Anna Maria von Baden.
Anna's arms are blazoned: Quarterly: 1 and 4, Or, a bend Gules; 2 and 3, Checky Gules and Argent. these are the arms of the House of Baden, Lords of Rodemachern, Gräfenstein and Alt-Eberstein, Counts of Sponheim, Margraves of Baden and Baden-Baden. This is the version of their arms adopted after 1437.
Anna’s parents were Margrave Philibert of Baden (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philibert,_Margrave_of_Baden-Baden) and Mechthild of Bavaria (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechthild_of_Bavaria)
What great displays of heraldry, all from what must have been a very short marriage, Anna being only 21 when she died!
Here (above) on the side of this building we see, on the left, the Rosenberg ("Rosenberg modern") arms that were discussed in my last post, and on the right, the arms of Anna Maria von Baden.
And here they are again (below), at the top of the façade of this building (though with the bendy portion of the Rosenberg shield mirrored to become bendy sinister):
Here's a closer image of those arms:
Here's a closer image of those arms:
Anna's arms are blazoned: Quarterly: 1 and 4, Or, a bend Gules; 2 and 3, Checky Gules and Argent. these are the arms of the House of Baden, Lords of Rodemachern, Gräfenstein and Alt-Eberstein, Counts of Sponheim, Margraves of Baden and Baden-Baden. This is the version of their arms adopted after 1437.
Anna’s parents were Margrave Philibert of Baden (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philibert,_Margrave_of_Baden-Baden) and Mechthild of Bavaria (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechthild_of_Bavaria)
What great displays of heraldry, all from what must have been a very short marriage, Anna being only 21 when she died!

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