15thc perception on swallowtail merlons?

[Mark Knowles]

Interesting example, Marco. This kind of answers the questions I had at the beginning of this thread.


Here's a confusing one from Genoa, 1330-1340. 
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Supposedly Genoa was predominantly Guelph, and the Guelphs supposedly sided with the French. It depicts the death of Philip IV of France a few decades prior. He suffered a stroke while hunting in Pont-Sainte-Maxence, north of Paris and died a few weeks later in Fontainebleau, a bit south of Paris. Both the hunting grounds and the castle have Ghibelline merlons

In the following article

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It says "The Grimaldis and the Fieschis were Guelphs but the Ghibellines were victorious and drove them out of Genoa."

This was at an earlier period, but clearly Genoa did change hands from time to time. In the early 15th century Genoa was under the control of the Duchy of Milan.