Regalienfeld
Regalienfeld (from Latin iura regalia , "royal rights") is the name in heraldry of a red field without a common figure or other heraldic images , which symbolizes the blood flag and thus initially indicates the right of the coat of arms to blood jurisdiction, but also as a symbol for the other regalia and thus the sovereignty is interpreted.
In the description of the coat of arms ( blazon ) the field is often only referred to as regalia . The worst place in the sense of honor is the shield base . This field is selected as the Regalien field. Occasionally, a damascus is placed over the red color of the field to improve the disgrace.
In the Great Coat of Arms of the Kingdom of Prussia , it is field number 52 in the description of the coat of arms.
In the individual representation, the shield base mutates into a coat of arms with an upper coat of arms .
The blazon reads: "Above the damascened red field a red open eagle flight on a crowned helmet with red blankets ."
history
The regalia or the blood field as it is called, is closely related to the leaning against the flag . Each feudal prince had to deposit the blood flag with the emperor according to the number of parts of his country . He received them back symbolically for each enfeoffed land. This type was carried out by Burgrave Friedrich I for the Mark Brandenburg in 1415.
A description of the blood flag for the Landgrave of Hesse is dated to 1495, when the Reichstag met in Worms . The oldest occurrence of the red field can be traced in the coat of arms of the Electoral Palatinate . When the Elector Friedrich von der Pfalz received the golden orb as enfeoffment from Emperor Karl V at the Reichstag in Speyer on May 5, 1544 , he already had a red field in the coat of arms. Thus he had the right of the so-called neck judgment. That was a right over life and death.
For a long time, however, the regalia field was not consistently included in the coat of arms of all enfeoffed sovereigns. It only became the rule at the beginning of the 16th century. Electorate Saxony introduced it under Elector Johann and Anhalt under Prince Wolfgang in 1556. The Burgraves of Meißen from the House of Plauen in 1558 and later also the House of Hohenlohe . The seal of the Meissnian burgraves showed a maiden holding the wings between an open flight. There followed Pomerania and Brandenburg . Evidence can be dated in the seal of Cardinal Albrecht von Brandenburg to the year 1535, in the great seal of Elector Joachim II to the year 1558. The enfeoffment of the Pomeranian dukes Georg and Philip on July 26, 1530 only had its coat of arms after 1610 Precipitation found.
The helmet gem for the Regalienfeld was never listed, although it is described and also shown in the Kurbrandenburg coat of arms book of 1574. The field of regalia was increasingly damascene for refinement. It is noteworthy that since 1701, but already around 1658, ultimately with the fall of the Holy Roman Empire, the fiefdoms have lapsed, but the regalia field is continued.
Remarks
- ^ A b c Maximilian Gritzner : Regional and heraldry of the Brandenburg-Prussian monarchy. Heymann, Berlin 1894 (here slightly changed).
literature
- Berthold Schmidt (Ed.): The Reuss. Genealogy of the entire Reuss family older and younger line, as well as the extinct Vogtslinien zu Weida, Gera and Plauen and the Burgraves of Meißen from the House of Plauen. F. Weber's successor, Schleiz 1903, ( digitized version ).