And Sometimes, This Job Is Easy

In my last post, I talked about the frustrations of having a photograph of a married couple's coats of arms, knowing their names, when they died, and even a little bit about what the husband did for a living, and being unable to find out anything more about them, or their heraldry, anywhere.

And then there are (some of) the other times, when I can look up a coat of arms and find the person to whom it belongs, and what they did, and even entire Wikipedia articles about them.

Today is one of those better times.

Here in the interior of the Cathedral of Our Lady in Munich, Germany, we find the arms of Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Archbishop of the Archdiocese of München-Freising, 2008-present. And he has his own Wikipedia article at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhard_Marx.

The arms on the shield are those of the Diocese quartering Marx.

Riestap's Armorial Général cites the arms of Marx as Gules a lion of St. Mark or. The arms of the Diocese of München-Freising are: Or a Moor’s head proper crowned and wearing a shirt collar gules. https://www.heraldry-wiki.com/wiki/Archdiocese_of_M%C3%BCnchen-Freising.

Isn't that nicer? I didn't have to do a whole lot of frustrating research, looking in one armorial after another, and then spend a lot of time writing about all of the information I couldn't find. I didn't even have to spend a lot of time writing about either the Archbishop or the arms of the Archdiocese. I can just include the links for you to click on and read as much or as little about each as you would like.

If only all of my heraldic research could go this well!