Woodcut illustration of 4 cities of the Holy Roman Empire (clockwise from top left: Augsburg, Metz, Lübeck, and Aachen) with their insignia, used by Peter Jordan of Mainz
Woodcut illustration of 4 cities of the Holy Roman Empire (clockwise from top left: Augsburg, Metz, Lübeck, and Aachen) with their insignia, used by Peter Jordan of Mainz.
A conventional grouping from the Quaternionsystem, popularized in the mid-15th century, which ordered the foremost or fundamental components of the Holy Roman Empire into 10 groups of four: Herzöge (dukes), Markgrafen (margraves), Landgrafen (landgraves), Burggrafen (burgraves), Grafen (counts), Freiherren (barons), Ritter (knights), Städte (cities), Dörfer (towns), and Bauern (smaller towns). Cf. B. Schneidmüller, Die Kaiser des Mittelalters, 2nd ed., (Munich: Beck, 2007), p. 112.
Established heading: Jordan, Peter, ‡d fl. 1535
Penn Libraries call number: GC5 K8183 530g
Woodcut illustration of 4 cities of the Holy Roman Empire (clockwise from top left: Augsburg, Metz, Lübeck, and Aachen) with their insignia, used by Peter Jordan of Mainz
Woodcut illustration of 4 cities of the Holy Roman Empire (clockwise from top left: Augsburg, Metz, Lübeck, and Aachen) with their insignia, used by Peter Jordan of Mainz.
A conventional grouping from the Quaternionsystem, popularized in the mid-15th century, which ordered the foremost or fundamental components of the Holy Roman Empire into 10 groups of four: Herzöge (dukes), Markgrafen (margraves), Landgrafen (landgraves), Burggrafen (burgraves), Grafen (counts), Freiherren (barons), Ritter (knights), Städte (cities), Dörfer (towns), and Bauern (smaller towns). Cf. B. Schneidmüller, Die Kaiser des Mittelalters, 2nd ed., (Munich: Beck, 2007), p. 112.
Established heading: Jordan, Peter, ‡d fl. 1535
Penn Libraries call number: GC5 K8183 530g