Bearings of Hohenzollern

Bicephalous (two-headed) eagle

 

Dimensions :0,82 x 0,67

 

Description : From sand to a silver beaked mouth and gold limbed bicephalous eagle

 

Origin :German family whose founder was FREDERIC: count of Zollern 1201, burgrave from Nuremberg who gave birth in 1701 to the royal Prussian dynasty

 

Following the division of 1227, the dynasty was split in two:

• the “franconienne” branch with CONRAD III owner of the burgraviate in 1261
• the “Souabe” branch with FREDERIC II the Lion in 1251