These forgotten Albanian Coats of Arms or Heralds have been generated with AI using historical documentation. The author of these illustrations is the same as of this article.

Summary:

The content discusses the creation of forgotten Albanian Coats of Arms using AI based on historical documents. It features a German coat of arms incorporating Albanian symbols designed by Pastor Abel-Théodore-Guillaume Maeder, detailed in a 1797 letter. The description includes elements such as lilies, a scythe, and an Albanian hat. Additionally, it references the national coat of arms of Albania completed in 1914 by historian Emil Doepler, which includes a princely mantle, the Albanian crown, and a double-headed eagle holding thunderbolts.

A German coat of arms with Albanian symbols by Pastor Abel-Théodore-Guillaume Maeder, a German author.

“In a letter of 1797, preserved in the Archives, from Pastor Abel-Théodore-Guillaume Maeder, the seal reads (pl. VIII):

“Gules, four lilies of the valley, erased argent, with stems and leaves vert, with a scythe argent without a handle placed in fess over all, the edge turned towards the chief. Crest: a man issuing, dressed in gules, wearing an Albanian hat, holding a scythe with a handle argent in both hands. Lambrequin gules and argent.”

In 1914 the new national coat of arms of Albania was recently completed by the historian Professor Emil Doepler of Berlin.

It consists of a princely mantle draped in ermine, adorned with the Albanian crown with ten arches. A ribbon bearing the motto of the House of Wied, “Fidelitate et veritate”, flutters above the upper edge of the mantle.

An Albanian double-headed eagle, each with a thunderbolt in each of its talons, hovers within the princely mantle. The eagle is surmounted by a heart-shaped shield, the natural eagle of Wied, and surmounted by the national colors of Albania.