A Verőczei Pejachevich Család Grófi Címere.pdf

The Veszprém County Laczkó Dezső Museum's Industrial Collection (53.3.302) houses a late 18th-century banner, mistakenly labeled as a "funerary coat of arms." In 1953, it was transferred from the castle of Count Pejachevich-Mikó Endre in Verőce (Veszprém County) to the Veszprém Museum, where it was registered by Vajkai Aurél, the museum's ethnographer and director. The banner, measuring 75x75 cm, is made of two white (now faded) silk pieces sewn together. The front features the coat of arms of the Verőczei Pejachevich family: a blue shield with a silver (now dark brown) column topped by a black eagle with a double cross in its beak, a sword in its right claw, and a cross-pommel sword in its left. The column is flanked by two rampant, red-tongued, double-tailed golden lions with silver swords. The shield is crowned with a nine-turreted golden grófi coronet, surmounted by three silver (now dark brown) helmets with golden coronets. The central helmet bears a black eagle with a double cross, the right one a red lion with a sword, and the left one a silver (now dark brown) column. The coat of arms is supported by a German imperial and a Hungarian royal herald, both wearing black and gold uniforms. The banner's edge is inscribed with a red, capital-lettered oval: "verőczei gróf Pejachevich Antal tábornoknak, a szent császári, apostoli királyi felség kamarásának 1798. május 21. napján, főispáni beiktatásakor, fiától Antaltól és a nemességgel" (For Count Antal Pejachevich of Verőce, general and chamberlain of the Holy Imperial and Apostolic Majesty, on the occasion of his installation as palatine on May 21, 1798, from his son Antal and the nobility). The reverse features a red, capital-lettered inscription in six lines: "a legkegyesebb atyának, a császár kedvenceinek, a család ékességének, adja, adományozza, ajánlja" (To the most indulgent father, the emperor's favorite, the ornament of the family, give, donate, dedicate). The inscription is surrounded by a wreath of laurel leaves, with military trophies and insignia on the outer side.