This next armorial chest is (or at least its armorial panels are) dated 1618 and, frankly, has a lot more inlay work on it than I would be w...

We've all got stuff, right? And we all need places in which to store our stuff, correct? Well, what could be better for storing your stu...

In one part of Frederiksborg Castle in Denmark was a case with a patent of nobility (and grant of arms?). This letter patent was issued by K...

To finish our look at the three embroidered armorial tablecloths in this exhibit at Frederiksborg Castle, each with increasingly greater num...

Continuing our look at these three wonderfully embroidered armorial tablecloths on exhibit at Frederiksborg castle, we come to the second on...

At the time we visited Frederiksborg Castle in Denmark, there was an exhibition of three embroidered armorial tablecloths, all dated to 1650...

Besides armorial portraits, of course, one of the other things you often find in castles (and large estate houses*) is tapestries of one sce...