Europe's own Black nobility, in its own art and records

SUMMARYEurope's own Black nobility, in its own art and records (Nov 3; Tito: the official definition of "Black Nobility" isn't the end of it)

RECORDSt. Maurice, carved as a Black man in Magdeburg Cathedral (c. 1240), and the Black head on Coburg's coat of arms; the Moor's heads of Sardinia and Corsica (WW9's own Four Moors tee); the Black Magus (Balthazar) in Renaissance paintings; Abram Gannibal, African-born general and noble in Russia, great-grandfather of the poet Pushkin; the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, French noble, swordsman and composer (1745-1799); Juan Latino, scholar in 1500s Granada. Contemporaries called Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (d. 1537), "il Moro," with a mother recorded as a servant possibly of African descent (Disputed). Queen Charlotte's ancestry: Disputed

LENSthe term "Black Nobility" has an official meaning (Rome's papal families), but Europe's carvings, coats of arms and court records show Black nobles in plain sight; the official definition is the hostile witness (Pattern).