Armament as an element of building the image of the ruler in the iconography of the dukes of the Griffin dynasty in the 15th century.
The presentation will analyse three images of Pomeranian rulers from the 15th century: the kenotaph of Duke Barnim VI from the church in Kenz (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) from around 1410, an image of Eric I of Pomerania, King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, from 1424, a recently identified and partly preserved fresco with the figure of Boguslaw X in the castle in Písek (Czech Republic) from 1479, as well as heraldic and sphragistic representations from that period. Consideration will be given to the iconography and elements of the depicted weaponry in the context of the weapons from the area preserved in museum collections. An analysis will be made of the way in which the image of the Pomeranian dukes was created in art by reference to the medieval ethos of the knight.