Continuing our look at some of the armorial memorials set into the outside walls of the Frauenkirche, the Cathedral of Our Dear Lady, in Munich, Germany, we come to this lovely example.
This is the memorial of Eustace Ligsalz, a member of the prominent Ligsalz patrician family of Munich, who died at the young age of 22. The main feature of the memorial is his full-length portrait carved in bas relief, with his family's coat of arms and crest at his feet.
The Ligsalz (also spelled Liegsalz) family was one of the wealthiest and most influential patrician dynasties guiding Munich's medieval and early modern city council. The Ligsalz dynasty served continuously on the Munich inner city council and as mayors, remaining a cornerstone of the city's aristocracy from the medieval period until the family line ended in the 18th century.
Additional information about the family can be found on the German Wikipedia website at https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligsalz_(Patrizierfamilie)
Transcription of the Latin Inscription on the memorial:
EUSTACHIO LIGSALZ IN FARCHEN NOBILI PATRICIO MONACENSI VICTIO SUPERSTITE FILIO QUEM NON SINE MAGNO DOLORE SUO QUEM PRECLARA SPEM NOMINIS EXCITAVERAT A SALUTIS M D LXXVI SUAE AETATIS XXII DECIMA SEXTA KAL DECEMBER MORS MATURA AD COELITES SUSTULIT PARENTES MOESTI HOC MONUMENTUM POSUERE
And here is the English translation:
To Eustace Ligsalz von Farchen, a noble patrician of Munich, the surviving son of Victius. Whom—not without great sorrow to themselves, as he had raised brilliant hopes for his name—ripe death snatched away to the heavens in the year of Salvation 1576, in the 22nd year of his age, on the 16th day before the Kalends of December (November 16). His sorrowful parents erected this monument.
Rietstap's Armorial Général gives us the blazon for these arms: Ligsalz de Farchach. Écartelé: aux 1 et 4, de gueules, à la bande d'argent, ch. d'une flèche de sable, posée dans le sens de la bande; aux 2 et 3, d'argent, à un garçon issant, habillé de gueules, mouv. d'une couronne d'or.
Additional information about the family can be found on the German Wikipedia website at https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligsalz_(Patrizierfamilie)
Transcription of the Latin Inscription on the memorial:
EUSTACHIO LIGSALZ IN FARCHEN NOBILI PATRICIO MONACENSI VICTIO SUPERSTITE FILIO QUEM NON SINE MAGNO DOLORE SUO QUEM PRECLARA SPEM NOMINIS EXCITAVERAT A SALUTIS M D LXXVI SUAE AETATIS XXII DECIMA SEXTA KAL DECEMBER MORS MATURA AD COELITES SUSTULIT PARENTES MOESTI HOC MONUMENTUM POSUERE
And here is the English translation:
To Eustace Ligsalz von Farchen, a noble patrician of Munich, the surviving son of Victius. Whom—not without great sorrow to themselves, as he had raised brilliant hopes for his name—ripe death snatched away to the heavens in the year of Salvation 1576, in the 22nd year of his age, on the 16th day before the Kalends of December (November 16). His sorrowful parents erected this monument.
Rietstap's Armorial Général gives us the blazon for these arms: Ligsalz de Farchach. Écartelé: aux 1 et 4, de gueules, à la bande d'argent, ch. d'une flèche de sable, posée dans le sens de la bande; aux 2 et 3, d'argent, à un garçon issant, habillé de gueules, mouv. d'une couronne d'or.
The English blazon is: Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Gules on a bend argent an arrow point to chief sable [Ligsalz]; 2nd and 3rd, Argent a boy issuant proper habited gules rising from a crown or [Farchach/Farchen?].
The crest combines the crests of each of the component quarters of the arms: A boy issuant proper habited gules rising from a crown or [Farchach/Farchen?], wearing a hat gules turned up argent, the argent portion charged with an arrow sable, at the peak of the cap issuant from a crown or four ostrich plumes sable [Ligsalz].
It's a touching memorial to a young son by his grieving parents, as well as a lovely display of heraldry.
It's a touching memorial to a young son by his grieving parents, as well as a lovely display of heraldry.
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