Minor Queries.
17. _Margaret Maultasch--Arms of Halle._--In "Marcel de Serres' Journey
in Bavaria and the Tyrol" (printed in Arliss's _Pocket Mag._ 1825), in
describing the statues ranged round the mausoleum of the Emperor Mathias
in the Franciscan churn at Innspruck, he says:
"Amidst the Princesses, Margaret Maultasch may easily be
discovered by the hideous conformation of her mouth, and her eyes
which glow with sensual desires. The singular arms which may be
seen over the gates of Halle, but too plainly betoken the
shameful and licentious character of this insatiable female."
Where can I read the life of this "hideous" personage? And what are the
arms alluded to? She was Duchess of Tyrol, and her portrait is in the
Chateau d'Eu; but I have never seen an engraving.