Chapter 81 The knowledge of heraldry is very profound
"West repeatedly !!" the coachman pulled the reins, and the two horses urgently raised their forwards and stopped their pace.
A group of knights in bright armor walked past the carriage, this group of knights was about a hundred people, the leader was surrounded by a flag officer holding a red cross flag, and behind this group of knights were hundreds of infantry with shields, spears, swords, and chain mail.
The most distinctive feature of this group of soldiers is not the red cross on the flag, but the large red cross on the linen on the outer cover of the chain mail, chain mail, and plate armor they wear, as well as on the shield. No, this group must be members of some religious order.
The coats of arms of the nobles were usually double-headed eagles, lions, or castles, etc., and only the religious knights would be bored to use the religious regiment as their coat of arms.
There used to be three major knights on the Roland continent, the Knights Templar, the Knights Hospitaller, and the Teutonic Knights.
However, this is not the case in reality, the Knights Templar was a knight order formed by two Valuaites to protect pilgrims during the Eastern Crusade, and later with the development of the Knights, there were tens of thousands of members, and there were three monarch-level powerhouses at the same time when they were at their strongest. However, the nature of the Templar Order has changed now, although the Templar Order's focus is still on the pagan territories in the east, but they have nearly 10,000 properties on the Roland continent, including castles, manors, churches, and monasteries, and are the largest creditors in many countries.
The other Knights Hospitaller were much more miserable, and their focus was also on the pagan territories of the East, but due to the defeat of a previous heavy war, they were now trapped on an isolated island.
The rest of the Teutonic Knights, this guy was almost killed, they were at their most glorious when they founded the Knights State, but now they are moving from country to country like a lost dog.
The political system of the HRE Empire was decentralized, so there were large and small vassal states in the HRE Empire, including not only states established by the aristocracy, but also free cities dominated by the burghers, and knights established in the name of religion.
But the Order, tainted by materialism, no longer pays attention to the Church......
For example, the group of knights in front of Chu Nan.
The army of several hundred people, who was slowly walking in front of Chu Nan's carriage, suddenly stopped.
One of the leaders waved his hand backwards, and hundreds of people stopped one after another, standing in place with weapons on their shoulders.
The leader of the group wore a nose helmet, pinned a mace to his waist and pulled the reins slowly, and walked slowly towards Chu Nan's carriage, it seemed that he had found something.
With the movement of the leader, hundreds of sergeants also set their eyes on the carriage.
Chu Nan, who was sitting in the carriage, suddenly lifted his heart (although he said that he didn't have a heart), could it be that he found something?
Priest Altyn is the Grand Master of the local Knights, he is not only a priest of the seventh rank but also an warrior of the eighth rank, and is a rare person who has a talent for contact in both magic and martial arts.
In fact, he has always been proud of it, and he is complacent.
With a keen sense of the smell of darkness, Altyn discovered that the carriage must be hiding something dark. Although this dark aura is very weak, it can't hide it from Alkin.
"Stop. Alkin pointed to the carriage with the whip in his hand.
"This car has been parked a long time ago. The coachman spoke slowly.
Didn't this carriage stop long ago when he saw this group of sergeants!Chu Nan felt that he couldn't complain about the powerful-looking Grand Master outside.
"Uh...... It's not that question, what I'm trying to say is what's inside the carriage!" Alkin said with embarrassment.
"Inside was an ordinary traveler. The coachman's calm tone made Chu Nan almost think that the person who drove the carriage for him was not a peerless master who could face the eighth-rank warrior and spoke lightly.
But in fact, after nearly a month of getting along, Chu Nan found that this man with yellow teeth, and from time to time he would say a few yellow jokes, and the coachman who peeked at the butt of the waitress in the tavern was just an ordinary old man. But it would be wrong to say that he was ordinary, because he was a steward in the realm of Salama, and he could be regarded as a person who worked for the emperor and his relatives!
The prime minister's door is a seven-rank official, and the old man is not far behind.
"Hmph, I don't need to hide it, I've already discovered a strong dark aura, and what is hidden in the carriage must be an evil being, if you don't stand up obediently and let us check......" Altyn narrowed his eyes, shocked by the breath of the old man in front of him.
This old man is the old man who often appears in third-rate knight novels and pretends to be a pig and eats a tiger!
"Huh!" The old man suddenly took out a sheepskin scroll, and this free and easy movement made Chu Nan feel the urge to drag the old man to make a movie. With such a free and easy action, going to Dongyang Hengdian Film and Television City is definitely promising......
The parchment scroll depicts a double-headed eagle. As a pattern used by various nobles, the double-headed eagle was first evolved from the single-headed eagle used by the unified ancient empire on the Roland continent, which represents classical culture on the one hand, and on the other hand, it represents the expansion and conquest in the direction of east and west, showing the temperament of a nobleman who wants to show his temperament.
But even though there are so many double-headed eagle coats of arms on the mainland, there are many subtle differences - for example, the complexity of the lines is different, the color of the double-headed eagle is different, the color of the case is different, and the decoration on the double-headed eagle is also different.
However, it is difficult for ordinary people to see it, even the nobles can't recognize it clearly, so there will definitely be a heraldic officer in charge of heraldry next to the nobles, and even there is a special heraldic science on the Roland Continent.
Can you imagine what it feels like for a person to look at thousands of different coats of arms all day long? And it also involves the history and art of heraldry......
But the coat of arms in the old man's hand does not need a special heraldic officer to identify it, as long as the nobles of the HRE Imperial Kingdom know this coat of arms! Of course, the illiterate commoners do not know it.
The coat of arms of the Hohenstaufen family of the HRE Imperial Kingdom - the double-headed eagle! There are countless forces that use double-headed eagles on the Roland continent, but there are four great double-headed eagles that must be recognized.
The Hohenstaufens of the HRE Empire, the Habsburgs of the Invisible Empire, the Rus' Empire in the East, and the Byzantine Empire in the Southeast.
And now in front of Altyn is the coat of arms of the Hohenstaufen family.