Melusine was a mythical ancestress of several lines of European nobility and in each she took on certain characteristics. In Lusignan, she was more dragon-like and for Luxembourg, much more like a mermaid - when she wasn't in her fully human form.
Was she ever an emblem? Well, not exactly, not in any heraldic sense, that I know of. However, the Valois lines of France were connected to Melusine through their mother, Bonne of Luxembourg.
In the Hundred Years War, one of her sons, John, Duke of Berry, took control of the Lusignan castle as represented in an illustration from "Tres Riches Heuers" - complete with dragon. He also commissioned a book on Melusine as a gift for his sister.
[He is also connected to the 'Oresme' cosmos and the nebuly line investigation.]
Two generations later, in the Valois line of the Dukes of Burgundy, Philip the Good had a device at the Feast of the Pheasant in 1454, a kind of table display that featured Melusine. It shows that the Melusine connection was maintained through those generations.
[He is also connected to the Order of the Golden Fleece, La Sainte Hostie de Dijon, and the Colettine Poor Clares.]
So, perhaps this was an emblem- or not. It seems that it would have been clear what was represented to those in the past who were part of those events. However, from the modern perspective, these elements cannot be reconnected without the recovery of the essential details.
Was she ever an emblem? Well, not exactly, not in any heraldic sense, that I know of. However, the Valois lines of France were connected to Melusine through their mother, Bonne of Luxembourg.
In the Hundred Years War, one of her sons, John, Duke of Berry, took control of the Lusignan castle as represented in an illustration from "Tres Riches Heuers" - complete with dragon. He also commissioned a book on Melusine as a gift for his sister.
[He is also connected to the 'Oresme' cosmos and the nebuly line investigation.]
Two generations later, in the Valois line of the Dukes of Burgundy, Philip the Good had a device at the Feast of the Pheasant in 1454, a kind of table display that featured Melusine. It shows that the Melusine connection was maintained through those generations.
[He is also connected to the Order of the Golden Fleece, La Sainte Hostie de Dijon, and the Colettine Poor Clares.]
So, perhaps this was an emblem- or not. It seems that it would have been clear what was represented to those in the past who were part of those events. However, from the modern perspective, these elements cannot be reconnected without the recovery of the essential details.
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