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Shield of Grand Master Karl von Trier (1311-’24). German, 1320 ca. Innsbruck Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum.
Shield of Grand Master Karl von Trier (1311-’24).
German, 1320 ca. Fir-wood with leather upholstery and painting 98.5´57.5 cm.
Innsbruck Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum
Source: DEUTSCHER ORDEN
In the Tyrolean State Museum in Innsbruck, an oval shield expanded at the top, on which a Gothic shield is painted with a arm that the Grand Masters of the Order of Teutonic Knights began to use in the 1310s, with a pot helmet and panel crest on which the same coat-of-arms is depicted. The inscription in the margins reads: + CLIPPEVS . CVM . GALEA. MAGISTRI . (ORD)INIS . FRATRVM . THEVTONICORVM and the shield had been identified by historians and art historians as the shield of Grand Master Karl von Trier (1311–1324). It is made of pine wood, covered in leather and painted. Its dimensions are 98.5 x 57.5 cm, the thickness approximately 1.5 cm. It was originally at Castle Reifenstein, which was not acquired by the Teutonic Order until the turn of 1469/1470; the earlier fates of the shield are unknown. It is not the original in the picture, but a very precise copy, which Archduke Eugen of Austria (Grand Master of the Order 1894–1923) likely had made and today is deposited at Castle Bouzov. He acted similarly also in other cases, when he had a copy made and offered them to proprietary institutions instead of the originals (e.g. the tombstones of the German Land Masters), which in the case of the shield did not succeed.
Source: p.133, "John the Blind of Bohemia, Charles IV and Lithuania" by Tomáš Borovský in Svet tajemných Baltu/The World of the Mysterious Balts
Referenced as figure 98a. TEUTONIC KNIGHT c. 1400 in Armies of the Middle Ages, Volume 2 by Ian Heath
98a depicts an earlier 14th century shield of characteristic Prussian shape, belonging to Hochmeister Karl Beffart von Trier (1310-19).
Referenced by figure 105a. TEUTONIC KNIGHT, 13th CENTURY in Armies of Feudal Europe 1066-1300 by Ian Heath
