This testifies to the manner of wearing this belt, which included hanging Shank – like the image is on the statue of King John Lackland of England (1199 – 1216), which is in Worcester Cathedral. Heraldic shields placed on the shank, rotated by 90 degrees with respect to all the others who are on the belt. Both plates are decorated with pearls and sapphires, each taken four coated with a thin layer of enamel shield with heraldic images. To one of them is fastened the buckle and the other serving as the shank, has a trapezoidal shape and tapers somewhat towards the end. Both ends of the belt are attached two silver gilt plate about 150 mm long.
Inner face with black light green silk embroidered with gold thread. Where does this thing and whose work he did not know until now, but there is debate about the three versions of its origin: Spanish, French or English.īasis belt size 1920 mm long and 42 mm wide was woven on the plates and decorated with tiny blue and white glass beads. On the belt, there are also nine other heraldic symbols, not known in the thirteenth century Castile. This belt, unlike other clothing, jewelry heraldic symbols of Castile and Leon, had the marks of the royal houses of England, France and Navarre presumably on the buckle emblem of Champagne. Mastery of work, wealth and beauty, and not inferior to the waist, the waist is on the Infanta.
Inside the tomb stone was placed the body 19-year-old Infanta in a luxurious, richly embroidered silk dress. “In 1942, in the monastery of Santa Maria de los Regalis Huelgas (Burgos, Isapniya), served as a place of coronation and burial place of Spanish kings from the time of its founder, Alfonso VIII, was the tomb of Fernando de la Cerda, the eldest son of Alfonso X of Castile. Wild (2011): Emblems and enigmas: Revisiting the ‘sword’ belt of Fernando de la Cerda, Journal of Medieval History, 37:4, 378-396. For Mantle and fragments, click here to jump to bottom.Īccording to the article by Benjamin L.
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