King Henry VI of England, 1421-1471, from a picture in the diary of the Knights of Ehingen.

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King Henry VI of England, 1421-1471, from a picture in the diary of the Knights of Ehingen. With two black-winged dragons holding his heraldic coat of arms of lions and fleurs-de-lys. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's "Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the early Middle Ages to the end of the 18th Century," Frankfurt, 1883. IIlustration drawn by Hefner-Alteneck, lithographed by C. Regnier, and published by Heinrich Keller. Dr. Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck (1811-1903) was a German archeologist, art historian and illustrator. He was director of the Bavarian National Museum from 1868 until 1886.

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