Equestrian seal

Around the middle of the 13th century, there was a fashion to also represent ladies and ecclesiastics on horseback on their seal, not wearing armour, but, as in the cases of Joan, Countess of Flanders (c. 1240), Maria of Brabant, Duchess of Bavaria (c. 1250) and Adelaide of Burgundy, Duchess of Brabant (c. 1260) practicing falconry.

After 1300, equestrian seals were almost exclusively used by the high nobility, by bearers of the rank of duke or higher.

[3] The reverse of the Great Seal of Charles I of England (1627) shows the monarch in full gallop, wearing a fanciful classicist armour, accompanied by a hunting dog.

The obverse of this coin was designed in the style of a medieval equestrian seal (with the addition of an alpine panorama).

Two widely popular forms that the horseman takes is as the Pahonia and Saint George fighting the dragon.