Midas head

Example of the Midas head

With Midas head is in the Heraldry a crest figure named that a human head with donkey ears in sign shows. This heraldic figure is based on the mythology of antiquity . At that time there was already a pictorial representation of a dog-eared head. In the coat of arms itself, this heraldic head is very rare and not very heraldically penetrated. The Silesian family of Janorinsky had their heads in the shield. In the coat of arms of the Thuringian-Hessian noble family Herda (also Herden, Hertta and Heerda) the coat of arms figure is in the shield (black figure in red) and in the upper coat of arms on the coat of arms helmet .

Web links

Midas head in the Heraldry Wiki

literature

Curt O. von Querfurth: Critical dictionary of heraldic terminology. CH Becksche Buchhandlung, Nördlingen 1872, p. 89.
Gert Oswald : Lexicon of Heraldry. Bibliographical Institute, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich / Leipzig 1984, ISBN 3-411-02149-7 , p. 271.

Individual evidence

↑ Gert Oswald: Lexicon of Heraldry. Bibliographical Institute, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich / Leipzig 1984, ISBN 3-411-02149-7 , p. 271.
^ Curt O. von Querfurth: Critical dictionary of heraldic terminology . CH Becksche Buchhandlung, Nördlingen 1872, p. 89.

[1] Gert Oswald: Lexicon of Heraldry. Bibliographical Institute, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich / Leipzig 1984, ISBN 3-411-02149-7 , p. 271.

[2] Curt O. von Querfurth: Critical dictionary of heraldic terminology . CH Becksche Buchhandlung, Nördlingen 1872, p. 89.