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Pridwen was, according to the 12th-century writer Geoffrey of Monmouth, King Arthur's shield; it was adorned with an image of the Virgin Mary.Geoffrey's description of it draws on earlier Welsh traditions found in Preiddeu Annwfn, Culhwch and Olwen, and the Historia Brittonum.
The "shield" has been painted on, supposedly to indicate an underlying carving " Westford Knight " is the name given to a pattern, variously interpreted as a carving, a natural feature, or a combination of both, located on a glacial boulder (also known as the Sinclair Rock ) in Westford , Massachusetts in the United States.
[2] [8] The knight's shield was designed for decoration with the Columns of Gediminas or the Jagiellonian Double Cross. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] Article 15 of the Constitution of Lithuania , approved by national referendum in 1992 , stipulates, "The Coat of Arms of the State shall be a white Vytis on a red field".
The master of Provence continued to use an Agnus Dei seal, while the seal of the Aragonese master William of Cardona and his successors depicted a knight on horseback, carrying a lance and shield, on which was a cross bearing the legend: S. MINISTRI TEMPLI 1 ARAGON 7 CATALON ("Seal of the minister of the Temple in Aragon and Catalonia").
In Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, written in the 1130s, he listed Arthur's weapons, giving his shield the name Pridwen. His reason for doing that is uncertain, [ 6 ] but it may be that he thought a name meaning "fair face" was appropriate for a shield which, he says, was adorned with an image of the Virgin Mary. [ 7 ]
The c. 1260 allegorical illustrations of a knight battling the seven deadly sins in a manuscript of William Peraldus' Summa Vitiorum, and of a woman penitent fending off diabolical attacks in the De Quincy Apocalypse, show the diagram placed on a shield. In the 15th century, one form of the Shield of the Trinity was considered to be the coat of ...
An early example from William Peraldus' Summa Vitiorum (c. 1260) shows a knight battling the seven deadly sins with this shield. A variation included with the shields of arms in Matthew Paris ' Chronica Majora ( c. 1250 –1259) adds a cross between the center and bottom circles, accompanied by the words "v'bu caro f'm est" ( verbum caro factum ...
Elaborate illustration to a 13th-century manuscript of his Summa de virtutibus et vitiis or Summa vitiorum, showing a symbolic knight protected by the Shield of the Trinity preparing to do battle with the Seven Deadly Sins. William Perault, (c. 1190 – 1271), also spelled Perauld; Latinized Peraldus or Peraltus, was a Dominican writer and ...