Croatian Coat of Arms

during centuries

 

Darko Zubrinic, Zagreb, 2005

 

Croatian coat of arms rom the book by Mavro Orbini: Il regno de gli Slavi, Pesaro 1601

 

Dubrovnik galleon with Croatian coat of arms

From the book by Bartolomeo Crescentio: La nautica Mediterranea, 1602, Rome
Dubrovnik galleon with Croatian coat of arms
(see [Eterovic, Croatian Popes and Saints, p12])

 

Epitaph of Croatian ban Toma Erdedi (1558-1624) in the Zagreb Cathedral,
with Croatian coat of arms (Regnum Sclavoniae, Croatiae, Dalmatiae):

Erdedi is important for organizing and participating in
the 1593 battle near Sisak against the Turks. The victory echoed in the whole of Europe.

 

Chest of privileges of the Kingdom of Dalmatia, Croatia and Slavonia, with Croatian legal documents, 1643
kept in the Croatian State Archives

 

photo from Croatian Historical Musem

 

The map is dedicated to Petar Zrinski, ban of Croatia. It was created at the workshop of Joannes Blaeu in Amsterdam as an addition to the work by Ivan Lucic, "De Regno Dalmatiae et Croatiae libri sex", Amsterdam, 1666. Blaeu had inserted the map in Atlas Maior in 1667, and dedicated it to the Croatian ban Petar Zrinski (bottom of the map, in the middle):

To the most illustrious and noble lord, Prince Peter of Zrin, the ban of the Kingdom of Dalmatia, Croatia and Slavonia, hereditary ban of the Littoral, hereditary captain of the Legrad fortress and Medimurje peninsula, master and hereditary prince of Lika, Odorje, Krbava, Omis, Klis, Skradin, Ostrovica, Bribir etc.., Master of Kostajnica and the sliver mine at Gvozdansko, councillor and chamberlain to his anointed imperial majesty, master Ioannes Blaeu dedicates this map.

The above text is from Croatian Historical Musem.

From the map of Illyricum in the book by Ivan Lucius Lucic:
De Regno Dalmatiae et Croatiae libri sex,
Amsterdam and Frankfurt, 1666

 

Croatian Coat of Arms on the map of Croatia by Stjepan Glavac (Stephan M. Glavach), 1673
source [Novak et al, p. 108]

 

Fojnica Heraldry from 1675 (kept in Franciscan Monastery in Fojnica, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
the only collection of old coats of arms known in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Coat of Arms of Prince Zarko Drazojevic (1438-1508), from the Poljica Principality

 

Coat of Arms of Badovinac Vid, Zumberak, exhibited in the Museum of Zumberak in Stojdraga

 

Detail from a map of Croatia, with Croatian coat of arms,
from J.W. Valvazor: Die Ehre des Herzogturms Crain, IV, 1689

 

A detail from Coat of Arms of Pavao Ritter Vitezovic (1652- 1713), Croatian historian and writer.
More extensive biography is available in Croatian.

 

A detail from Ivan Einhart's painting "Croatian dignitaries at King Ladislav and the Queen", around 1690,
representing coat of arms of the Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia (on the right) and Dalmatia (on the left).
Kept in the Zagreb City Museum.

 

Coat of Arms of the Brodaric family (a detail), Croatia, 1695, source [Molnar]

 

Croatian Coat of Arms on a map by Vicenzo Maria Coronelli, printed in Venice, 1697
source [Novak et al, p. 180]

 

A detail from Seutter's map, Augsburg 1709

 

The inscription "Peace and Good" (Mir i dobro) in the Croatian Glagolitic Script,
at the main entrance of the Franciscan convent on the islet of Kosljun near the town of Punat
on the island of Krk

 

Croatian Coat of Arms (Croatien) in Sevnica, Slovenia, 17th century;
there are also nice wooden Coats of Arms of Slavonia (Schlavon.) Dalmatia (Dalmaci.),
and of the city of Zagreb (Agram)

The Coats of Arms were first placed in the lower palace in Sevnica,
and then moved to the upper palace, to its Conference hall
(many thanks to Blandina and Ante Markovic for information and photos)

 

A shield in Prague, capital of Czechia, with Croatian coat of arms
(I do not know the year)

 

Bosiljevo and Medvedgrad

Coat of arms of the noble district of Turopolje from 1737

Coat of arms of the Noble district of Turopolje from 1737,
where Bartol Jurjevic (or Gyurgievits) was born

 

The Baroque church of St. Martin Bishop, Donja Voca (north of Zagreb), mural by Ivan Ranger, 18th century

 

Official seal of the Zagreb zupanija (county),
with Croatian coat of arms, 1759,
Croatian coat of arms and the seal were granted by Queen Maria Theresia

 

Two details from Regnum Croatiae, map of Croatian Kingdom by Johann van der Bruggen, Venice 1737
source [Novak et al, p. 54]

 

A monument from the town of Bakar from 1741; photo from [Ostric]

A detail from the Bakar monument.

 

A detail from the Coat of arms of the Severin County, 1778,
assigned by the Queen Maria Theresia; note Croatian tricolors on the sailing ship
source: Jozo Ivanovic, Croatian State Archives, 2006, ISBN 953-6005-78-6

 

Coat of Arms of the town of Bakar from 1779 drawn by Matija Mazic (1896); photo from [Ostric]

 

A detail from a Certificate of a Master Craftsman, 18th century
(kept in the Croatian State Archives in Zagreb)

 

Countess Katarina Patacic (1750-1811), from the title page of her book Pesme Horvatzke (Croatian Poems), Varazdin 1781

 

Grb of the town of Karlovac, 1781

 

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