Conrad Grünenberg

Conrad Grünenberg, also spelled Konrad, Grünemberg, Grünberg (probably born around 1415; died 1494) was a patrician from Constance in southern Germany, known as the author of three books, two armorials and a travelogue: the Österreichische Wappenchronik (lit.

'Book of coat-of-arms', c. 1483), containing some 2000 coats-of-arms, which he presented as a gift to Emperor Frederick III;[3][4][5] and the illustrated description of his 1486 pilgrimage to Jerusalem (extant in two original manuscripts, both from 1487, the Karlsruhe and the Gotha codices).

[3] By 1465, he had been in the service of Emperor Frederick III for some time, and at the latest 1486 on held the rank of Ritter.

Starting out in Constance on 22 April, he travelled to Venice via Rheineck, Sterzing in Tyrol and Trento, and (31 May) from Venice by galley via Poreč in Istria, Dalmatia (Zadar, Šibenik, Lesina, Korčula and Ragusa) to Corfu, Modon in Morea, then on to Candia on Crete, Rhodes, and Cyprus (Limassol, Galini, Famagusta), arriving in Jaffa on 24 July.

[10] On 1 September he took a ship back from Jaffa, reaching Venice on 16 November (Saint Othmar's day), returning home in early December.

The Church of Saint George and Mosque of Al-Khadr , Lydda , with the mosque labelled as ain haidnischer tempel , "a pagan temple" (Cod. St. Peter pap. 32 fol. 33r).
Grünenberg's coat of arms on the final page of his travelogue, with the Jerusalem cross for the Order of the Holy Sepulchre , the sword and scroll of the Cyprian Order of the Sword , the jar with the lilies of the Virgin of the Aragonese Order of the Jar , and half of the wheel of Saint Catherine . [ 1 ]