Hunedoara Castle

The castle of Hunedoara was built in the mid-fifteenth century by John Hunyadi, an influential member of the Hungarian aristocracy.
Among its particular feature is a mural painting depicting fourteen coats of arms covering the wall of the so-called Matthias Loggia.

This Heraldic Wall is a remarkable testimony of Hunyadi‘s aristocratic display and gives an insight into the political life of the social elite of the Hungarian Kingdom.
It consisted of two registers. The upper part was a row of fourteen armorial bearings, the lower was made up of a bushy vegetal ornamentation.

Heraldic Wall
1. Wladislaw Jagiello
King of Poland and Hungary
1440-1444
2. Lorinc Hédervari
Palatine of Hungary
1437-1447
3. Lászlo Garai
Ban of Macso
1445-1447
4. Miklos Újlaki
Voivode of Transylvania
1441-1458
5. Ferenc Csáki
Count of the Székelys
1446-1448
6. Dező Losonci
Voivode of Transylvania
1441
7. György Rozgonyi
Judge royal of Hungary
1441-1446
8. István Bánfi of Alsólendva
9. Unreadable
10. John Hunyadi
Voivode of Transylvania
1441-1446
11. Dénes Szécsi
Cardinal and Archbishop of Esztergom
1440-1465
12. Unreadable
13. András Kálnói
Bishop of Pécs
1445-1455
14. Mátyás Gatalóci
Bishop of Veszprém
1440-1457