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unusual facts about coats of arms


Coats of arms, badges and emblems of Spanish Armed Forces

This is likely Princess Beatrice, Egyptologist and drawer, would have based on the Egyptian scarab, the winged disc of the Burial site of Seti I or Maat's wings.


Armorial de la Comédie Humaine

Armorial de la Comédie Humaine is an armorial describing the coats of arms of the fictional characters in the literary works collectivelly called La Comédie humaine, written by Honoré de Balzac.

Healy Hall

Gaston Hall, located on the third and fourth floors and named for Georgetown's first student, William Gaston, is decorated with the coats of arms of the Jesuit colleges and universities and rich allegorical scenes painted by notable Jesuit artist Brother Francis C. Schroen.


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Biscione

When the Visconti family died out in the 15th century, the emblem retained its association with the Duchy of Milan and became part of the coats of arms of the House of Sforza; the presence of Biscione in Poland (Sanok) and Belarus (Pruzhany) is due to queen Bona Sforza.

Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor

Lauf (Wenzelsburg) - built on the way connecting Prague and Nuremberg in Bohemian Palatinate, inside survived 112 coats of arms of the Czech Kingdom

Coat of arms of Bulgaria

In 1927 it legitimated the middle form of the coat of arms, similar to these used as personal coats of arms by Bulgarian monarchs Ferdinand I and his son Tsar Boris III (1918–1943), but excluding all dynastic elements and preserving only the pure state symbolism.

Coat of arms of Catalonia

The Coat of arms of Catalonia is based on four red pallets on gold background which have been used since the Middle Ages on several coats of arms.

Coat of arms of Romania

Then the coat of arms of Transylvania was placed in the fourth quarter, with the Turul replaced by a black aquila, the third quarter depicted the joined coats of arms of Banat and Oltenia (the bridge of Apollodorus of Damascus and a golden lion respectively), and the coat of arms of Dobruja was placed in an insertion.

Coats of arms of U.S. Air Defense Artillery Regiments

Most are the work of Master Gunner and Master Sergeant Edward C. Kuhn (March 29, 1872 – September 4, 1948), who designed the first authorized coats of arms and distinctive unit insignia for the U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps, Engineer Corps, Cavalry, Infantry, National Guard and other branches.

Distinctive unit insignia

It was designed by Master Gunner and Master Sergeant Edward C. Kuhn, the artist responsible for creating all authorized coats of arms and distinctive unit insignia at the time.

Flag of the President of the United States

Edward C. Kuhn, a designer of many early U.S. Army insignia and coats of arms, made a series of watercolors of older presidential flags.

Grunwald Swords

According to Jan Długosz's chronicle, they bore the coats of arms of their respective masters: a black eagle in a golden field of King Sigismund of the Romans, and a red griffin in a silver field of Duke Casimir V of Pomerania.

Hammer and pick

In coats of arms the symbol is often shown in black (Johanngeorgenstadt, Hövels), but also in natural colours (Telnice) or in gold and/or silver (Abertamy, Bodenwöhr, Gelsenkirchen).

Heraldic authority

It does not include private societies or enterprises which design and/or register coats of arms.

Icelandic heraldry

Rather than actual coats of arms, municipalities carry logos which usually look vaguely like a coat of arms, but the rules of heraldry are not always observed and the results vary, ranging from such characteristically heraldic arms as those of Akureyri to such unheraldic logos as that of Djupivogur.

Jean Armand Charlemagne

Chardin and Renouard, which induced the Convention to protect books adorned with the coats of arms of their former owners and other treasures from destruction at the hands of the revolutionists.

Kirchweiler

The “mount” is described in the German blazon as a Dreiberg, but it does not have the shape that this charge usually takes in German heraldry (for examples within this same district, see Kerpen’s and Birgel’s coats of arms).

Maunch

Baron Hastings (temp. Edward III, 1295 creation, also shown in the Gelre Armorial, c. 1390s) and in coats of arms derived from the Hastings one, e.g. Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent (d. 1490).

Miramare Castle

Many coats of arms of the Second Mexican Empire decorate the castle, as well as stone ornamentations on the exterior depicting the Aztec eagle.

Portcullis

It is through Lord Charles Somerset, son of the 5th Duke of Beaufort, that the portcullis has found its way into several South African coats of arms.

Provinces of Sweden

At the funeral of Charles X Gustav more flags were added to the procession, namely the coats of arms for Estonia, Livonia, Ingria, Narva, Pomerania, Bremen and Verden, as well as coat of arms for the German territories Kleve, Sponheim, Jülich, Ravensberg and Bayern.

The Red and the Blue

When the university was creating a seal and coat-of arms it decided to use elements from both Benjamin Franklin's and William Penn's coats-of-arms—Franklin had helped to found the university, and Penn had founded the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Tours FC

Tours' crest is inspired by the city's coats of arms with three towers and a Fleur-de-lis.

Triclavianism

The three nails, as a symbol for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, are also used on the coats of arms of Drahovce, Slovakia, Saint Saviour, Jersey, St. Clement Parish, Ottawa and in the seal of the Society of Jesus.