Wapen van Michael Behaim

A woodcut displaying a tilted shield with a diagonal wavy band, surrounded by intricate, curling foliate mantling. Atop the shield sits a jousting helmet crowned with a crest featuring an eagle with outstretched wings and a crown around its neck.

The Behaim family was central to the intellectual and commercial life of Renaissance Nuremberg; Michael's brother, Martin Behaim, was a famed cosmographer who created the earliest surviving terrestrial globe, the Erdapfel, linking the family to the era's developments in natural philosophy and navigation.