Herby na gotyckiej chrzcielnicy z katedry w Poznaniu
Coats-of-arms on the gothic baptismal font in the Poznań Cathedral

Summary/Abstract: In the Poznań Cathdral of St. Apostles Peter and Paul there is a gothic metal baptismal font, on which remains of colour polychromy with fragments of four coats-of-arms were found in the spring of 2016. Some written sources allow to date the object to before 30 April 1447. On its cover there are most probably the arms of the knightly clans: Łodzia – Nałęcz – Awdaniec – Leliwa (the first and last of these are hardly visible so their identification is only hypothetical). The coats-of-arms display the ancestry of Andrzej of Bnin, bishop of Poznań, of the Łodzia clan (b. circa 1396/1397, d. 1479), known also from his bronze tomb slate, preserved in the Poznań Cathedral. The Poznań font is older than that of Gniezno, produced in 1448. It was made between 1435 (when Andrzej became a canon of Poznań) and 1447 (when it was first mentioned in sources). The dating may be cautiously narrowed to the years 1439-1447, as the object was most probably ordered by Andrzej of Bnin after he became the bishop of Poznań.

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