My grandfather has had these doors hanging in his house for as long as I have been around. He asked me if there was anyway to use the internet to figure out where/when they were from and I immediately thought of this subreddit. I'm not sure if this is the best place to post them, but hope you can help.
He got the doors from an old neighbor of his mothers. She was a collector and went to Europe and returned with several old pieces to decorate her home with. When she died, her house went up for sale. My grandfather, then a young man, procured the doors from the new owners.
From looking at the doors, it appears evident that the handles and locking mechanisms were added/repaired more recently than the doors were created.
The doors themselves have 8 pictures. They are divided into 4 pairs of a male and female facing each other. We assume they were nobles or lords of a family.
The pictures are here: http://imgur.com/a/fLGqA
Thank you in advance!
Well sorry to disapoint you but i doubt theses doors are medievals. The helmet depicted on the before to last picture is from 1650 at the very earliest. That's for what i can tell for sure.
Now, for anecdotal evidence, the woodworks look like a lot what we got at my grandparent's house, built circa 1850. Photography wasn't really a thing back them and you would, in richer family, sometime have pieces of the furnitures custom made to depict the older family members.