Heraldry of the Holy Roman Empire

Heraldry of the Holy Roman Empire
The Quarter Eagle, hand-coloured woodcut (c. 1510) by Hans Burgkmair. One rendition of the coat of the country was the "Quaternion Eagle" printed by David de Negker of Augsburg, after a 1510 woodcut by Hans Burgkmair. It showed a selection of 56 shields of various Imperial States in groups of four on the feathers of a double-headed eagle supporting, in place of a shield, Christ on the Cross. The top, larger shields, are those of the seven Prince Electors, the ecclesiastical: Trier, Cologne and Mainz as well as of the titular "Prefect of Rome" on the right wing; the secular: Bohemia, Palatinate, Saxony and Brandenburg on the left. The depiction also appeared on the Imperial Eagle beaker.

Over its long history, the Holy Roman Empire used many different heraldic forms, representing its numerous internal divisions.


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Holy Roman Emperors

Starting with Albert II (reigned 143839), each Emperor bore arms with an inescutcheon of his personal arms on the torso of a two-headed eagle. (Before 1438 the Emperors would have both a personal and an imperial coat of arms.) The arms of the High Offices of the Empire were borne as an augmentation to the office-holder's personal arms.

Personal arms Imperial arms Name/Blazon of personal arms
Hohenstaufen family arms.svg Holy Roman Empire Arms-single head.svg Hohenstaufen
  • 1138-1152 : Conrad III (1093 † 1152)
  • 1152-1190 : Frederick I (1123 † 1190), crowned in 1155
  • 1190-1197 : Henry VI (1165 † 1197), crowned in 1191

Or, three lions passant in pale sable.

Arms of William the Conqueror (1066-1087).svg Holy Roman Empire Arms-single head.svg

Gules, two lions passant guardant Or.

Hohenstaufen family arms.svg Holy Roman Empire Arms-single head.svg

Or, three lions passant in pale sable.

Counts of Habsburg Arms.svg Holy Roman Empire Arms-single head.svg

Or, a lion rampant gules, armed, langued, and crowned azure.

Nassau Arms.svg Holy Roman Empire Arms-single head.svg

Azure, billetty a lion rampant with a closed crown Or, armed and langued gules.

Austria coat of arms simple.svg Holy Roman Empire Arms-single head.svg

Gules a fess argent.

Arms of the Counts of Luxembourg.svg Holy Roman Empire Arms-single head.svg

Barry of ten argent and azure, a lion rampant gules, crowned Or.

Bavaria Arms.svg Holy Roman Empire Arms-single head.svg

Fusilly bendwise argent and azure.

Small coat of arms of the Czech Republic.svg Holy Roman Empire Arms-single head.svg

Gules a lion rampant argent, queue fourchée crossed in saltire, armed, langued, and crowned Or.

Arms of the Palatinate (Bavaria-Palatinate).svg Holy Roman Empire Arms-single head.svg

Quarterly, I and IV fusilly bendwise argent and azure (for Bavaria); II and III sable a lion rampant Or, armed, langued, and crowned gules (for the Electoral Palatinate).

Sigismund Arms.svg Holy Roman Empire Arms-single head.svg

Quarterly, I and IV gules a lion rampant argent, queue fourchée crossed in saltire, armed, langued, and crowned Or (for Bohemia); II and III barry of eight, gules and argent (for Hungary).

Austria coat of arms simple.svg Emperor Albert I Arms.svg

Gules a fess argent.

Austria coat of arms simple.svg Emperor Frederick III Arms.svg

Gules a fess argent.

Austria-Burgundy Arms.svg Armoiries empereur Maximilien Ier.png

Per pale, dexter gules a fess argent (for Austria); sinister bendy of six Or and azure, a bordure gules (for the French Duchy of Burgundy).

Charles V Escutcheon.svg Charles V Arms-imperial.svg

Quarterly: I and IV grand-quarterly i and iv great-grand-quarterly 1 and 4 gules a three towered castle Or masoned sable and ajouré azure (for Castile), 2 and 3 argent a lion rampant purpure crowned Or langued and armed gules (for Leon), ii per pale, dexter per fess, in chief Or four pallets gules (for Aragon), in base gules a cross, saltire, and orle of chains linked together Or and a centre point vert (for Navarre), sinister argent a cross potent and four crosslets Or (for Jerusalem) impaling barry of eight gules and argent (for Hungary), iii per pale, dexter per fess, in chief Or four pallets gules (for Aragon), in base gules a cross, saltire, and orle of chains linked together Or and a centre point vert (for Navarre), sinister per saltire, 1 and 4 Or four pallets gules, 2 and 3 argent an eagle displayed sable (for Sicily); II and III grand-quarterly, i gules a fess argent (for Austria), ii azure semy-de-lis Or a bordure compony argent and gules (new Burgundy), iii bendy of six Or and azure a bordure gules (old Burgundy), iv sable a lion rampant Or langued and armed gules (for Brabant), overall at the fess point of the quarter an inescutcheon Or a lion rampant sable armed and langued gules (for Flanders) impaling argent an eagle displayed gules, armed, beaked, and langued Or (for Tyrol); enté en point argent a pomegranate proper seeded gules, supported, sculpted and slipped vert (for Granada).

Ferdinand I Arms-personal.svg Ferdinand I Arms-imperial.svg

Quarterly, I and IV gules a lion rampant argent, queue fourchée crossed in saltire, armed, langued, and crowned Or (for Bohemia); II and III barry of eight, gules and argent (for Hungary); overall and inescutcheon per pale, dexter gules a fess argent (for Austria), sinister bendy of six Or and azure, a bordure gules (for Burgundy).

Rudolf II Arms-personal.svg Rudolf II Arms-imperial.svg

Quarterly, I gules a lion rampant argent, queue fourchée crossed in saltire, armed, langued, and crowned Or (for Bohemia); II barry of eight, gules and argent (for Hungary); III per pale, dexter gules a fess argent (for Austria), sinister bendy of six Or and azure, a bordure gules (for Burgundy); IV grand-quarterly i and iv gules a three-towered castle Or (for Castile), ii and iii argent a lion rampant purpure armed, langued, and crowned Or (for Leon).

Ferdinand III Arms-personal.svg Ferdinand III Arms-imperial.svg

Quarterly, I gules a lion rampant argent, queue fourchée crossed in saltire, armed, langued, and crowned Or (for Bohemia); II barry of eight, gules and argent (for Hungary); III grand-quarterly, i and iv gules a three-towered castle Or (for Castile), ii and iii argent a lion rampant purpure armed, langued, and crowned Or (for Leon); IV per pale, dexter bendy of six Or and azure a bordure gules (for Burgundy), sinister per fess, chief argent an eagle displayed gules armed, langued, and beaked Or (for Tyrol), and base Or a lion rampant sable, armed and langued gules (for Flanders); overall an inescutcheon gules a fess argent (for Austria).

Leopold I Arms-personal.svg Leopold I Arms-imperial.svg

Quarterly, I barry of eight, gules and argent (for Hungary); II gules a lion rampant argent, queue fourchée crossed in saltire, armed, langued, and crowned Or (for Bohemia); III per pale, dexter gules a fess argent (for Austria), sinister bendy of six Or and azure, a bordure gules (for Burgundy); IV grand-quarterly i and iv gules a three-towered castle Or (for Castile), ii and iii argent a lion rampant purpure armed, langued, and crowned Or (for Leon).

Ferdinand I Arms-personal.svg Ferdinand I Arms-imperial.svg

Quarterly, I and IV gules a lion rampant argent, queue fourchée crossed in saltire, armed, langued, and crowned Or (for Bohemia); II and III barry of eight, gules and argent (for Hungary); overall and inescutcheon per pale, dexter gules a fess argent (for Austria), sinister bendy of six Or and azure, a bordure gules (for Burgundy).

Charles VI Arms-personal.svg Charles VI Arms-imperial.svg

Quarterly, I gules a three-towered castle Or (for Castile); II barry of eight, gules and argent (for Hungary); III per pale, dexter Or four pallets gules (for Aragon), sinister per saltire i and iv Or four pallets gules, ii and iii argent an eagle displayed sable (for Sicily); IV per pale, dexter gules a fess argent (for Austria), sinister bendy of six Or and azure a bordure gules (for Burgundy); overall an inescutcheon gules a lion rampant argent, queue fourchée crossed in saltire, armed, langued, and crowned Or (for Bohemia).

Charles VII Arms-personal.svg Charles VII Arms-imperial.svg

Quarterly, I and IV fusilly bendwise argent and azure (for Bavaria); II and III sable a lion rampant Or, armed, langued, and crowned gules (for the Electoral Palatinate); overall an inescutcheon gules an orb Or (for Arch-Steward of the Holy Roman Empire).

Francis I Arms-personal.svg Francis I Arms-imperial.svg

Quarterly, I barry of eight gules and argent (for Hungary) impaling azure semy-de-lis Or a label gules (for Naples); II argent a cross potent and four crosslets Or (for Jerusalem) impaling Or four pallets gules (for Aragon); III azure semy-de-lis Or a bordure gules (for the House of Valois-Anjou) impaling azure a lion sinister rampant Or, armed, langued, and crowned gules (for Guelders); IV Or a lion rampant sable, armed and langued gules (for Jülich) impaling azure crusilly fitchy, two barbels haurient addorsed Or (for Bar); overall an inescutcheon Or a bend gules three alerions argent (for Lorraine) impaling Or, in annulo six torteaux, the torteau in chief replaced by a roundel azure charged with three fleurs-de-lis Or (for the Medici family).

Joseph II Arms-personal.svg Joseph II Arms-imperial.svg

Quarterly, I barry of eight, gules and argent, impaling gules a patriarchal cross argent on a trimount vert (for Hungary); II gules a lion rampant argent, queue fourchée crossed in saltire, armed, langued, and crowned Or (for Bohemia); III bendy of six Or and azure, a bordure gules (for Burgundy); IV Or, in annulo six torteaux, the torteau in chief replaced by a roundel azure charged with three fleurs-de-lis Or (for the Medici family); overall and inescutcheon gules a fess argent (for Austria) impaling Or a bend gules three alerions argent (for Lorraine).

Leopold II Arms-personal.svg Leopold II Arms-imperial.svg

Quarterly, I barry of eight, gules and argent, impaling gules a patriarchal cross argent on a tri-mount vert (for Hungary); II gules a lion rampant argent, queue fourchée crossed in saltire, armed, langued, and crowned Or (for Bohemia); III bendy of six Or and azure, a bordure gules (for Burgundy); IV azure crusilly fitchy, two barbels haurient addorsed Or (for Bar); overall an inescutcheon per pale, dexter Or a bend gules three alerions argent (for Lorraine), sinister Or, in annulo six torteaux, the torteau in chief replaced by a roundel azure charged with three fleurs-de-lis Or (for the Medici family), overall on a pale gules a fess argent (for Austria).

Princes-electors

High offices (Reichserzämter)

Arms Office and Blazon
Arch Chamberlain Arms-single.svg Arch Chamberlain Arms.svg Arch-Chamberlain of the Holy Roman Empire
  • Azure two sceptres in saltire Or.
Arch Steward Arms.svg Arch-Steward of the Holy Roman Empire

Gules, an orb Or.

Arch Treasurer Arms.svg Arch-Treasurer of the Holy Roman Empire

Gules, the crown of Charlemagne proper.

Arch-Marshal Arms.svg Arch-Marshal of the Holy Roman Empire

Per fess sable and argent, two swords in saltire gules.

Electors

Arms Electorate/Blazon
Bavaria Arms.svg Bavaria (1623)

Fusilly bendwise argent and azure.

Small coat of arms of the Czech Republic.svg Bohemia

Gules a lion rampant argent, queue fourchée crossed in saltire, armed, langued, and crowned Or.[1]

Wappen Mark Brandenburg.png Brandenburg

Argent an eagle displayed gules crowned Or.

Teutonic Knights Arms.svg Cologne

Argent a cross sable.[2]

Coat of Arms of Brunswick-Lüneburg.svg Royal Arms of the Kingdom of Hanover.svg Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) (1692)

Per pale, I Gules two lions passant guardant Or (for Brunswick), II Or a semy of hearts Gules a lion rampant Azure (for Lüneburg).

Mainz Arms.svg Mainz

Gules, a wheel with six spokes argent.[3][2]

Arms of the Palatinate (Old).svg Arms of the Palatinate (Bavaria-Palatinate).svg Electoral Palatinate
  • Before 1214: Sable a lion rampant Or crowned gules.
  • After 1214: Quarterly, I and IV fusilly bendwise argent and azure (for Bavaria); II and III sable a lion rampant Or, armed, langued, and crowned gules.[4]
Coat of arms of Saxony.svg Saxony

Barry sable and Or, a crancelin vert.

Trier Arms.svg Trier

Argent a cross gules.[2]

Other states

Listed by Imperial Circle (introduced 1500, 1512).

Austrian Circle

Arms Location/Blazon
Austria coat of arms simple.svg Austria

Gules a fess argent.

Kaernten shield CoA.svg Carinthia

Or three lions passant sable armed and langued gules impaling gules a fess argent.

Carniola Arms.svg Carniola

Argent an eagle displayed azure, armed, beaked, and langued gules, charged with a crescent chequy gules and Or.

Friuli Arms.svg Friuli

Azure an eagle displayed Or.

Wappen Gemeinde Steyr.svg Styria

Vert, a panther rampant argent incensed proper.

Tyrol Arms.svg Tyrol

Argent an eagle displayed gules, armed, beaked, and langued Or.

Bavarian Circle

Arms Location and blazon
Bavaria Arms.svg Charles VII Arms-personal.svg Bavaria
Wappen Haag OB.png Haag

Gules, a horse springing argent, bridled argent.

Leuchtenberg.PNG Leuchtenberg

Quarterly: I and IV gules, an oak branch with acorns Or; II and III Or, a hops branch vert; an inescutcheon argent a fess azure.

Coa Ortenburg.png Ortenburg

Gules, a bend embattled-counter-embattled argent

Wappen Passau.svg Passau

Argent a wolf gules

Wappen Regensburg.svg Regensburg

Gules, two keys in saltire argent.

Salzburg Wappen.svg Salzburg

Party per pale: Or a lion rampant sable, armed and langued gules; and gules a fess argent.

Burgundian Circle

Arms Location/Blazon
Blason Bourgogne-comté ancien(aigle).svg Blason comte fr Nevers.svg County of Burgundy
  • Before 1280: Gules an eagle displayed argent.
  • After 1280: Azure billetty Or a lion rampant of the same, armed and langued gules.
Arms of the king of the Belgians (since 1921).svg Brabant-Limburg Arms.svg
Burgundy-Brabant Arms.svg
Brabant
  • Before 1288: Sable a lion rampant Or, armed and langued gules.
  • From 1288 to 1406: Quarterly, I and IV sable a lion rampant Or, armed and langued gules; II and III argent a lion rampant gules, queue fourchée, armed and langued Or.
  • From 1406 to 1430: Quarterly, I and IV azure three fleur-de-lis Or, a bordure compony argent and gules; II sable a lion rampant Or, armed and langued gules; III argent a lion rampant gules, queue fourchée, armed and langued Or.
Arms of Flanders.svg Flanders

Or a lion rampant sable.

Blason ville fr Avanne-Aveney (Doubs).svg Blason comte fr Gueldre.svg
Armoiries Gueldre.svg Guelders-Jülich Arms.svg
Guelders
  • From 1236 to 1276: Azure billetty Or a lion rampant of the same.
  • From 1276 to 1378: Azure a lion rampant Or, armed, langued, and crowned gules.
  • After 1378: Azure a lion sinister rampant Or, armed, langued, and crowned gules, impaling Or a lion rampant sable, armed and langued gules.
Blason fr Hainaut ancien.svg Hainaut Modern Arms.svg
Hainaut-Bavaria Arms.svg
Hainaut
  • From 1299 to 1254: Quarterly, I and IV Or a lion rampant sable, armed and langued gules; II and III Or a lion rampant gules, armed and langued azure.
  • From 1254 to 1433: Quarterly, I and IV fusilly bendwise argent and azure; II and III grand-quarterly I and IV Or a lion rampant sable, armed and langued gules; II and III Or a lion rampant gules, armed and langued azure.
Counts of Holland Arms.svg Holland

Or a lion rampant gules, armed and langued azure.

Limburg Old Arms.svg Limburg New Arms.svg Limburg
  • Before 1214: Argent a lion rampant gules, armed and langued Or.
  • After 1214: Argent a lion rampant gules, queue fourchée, armed, langued, and crowned Or.
Loon Arms.svg Chiny Arms.svg
Loon-Chiny Arms.svg Loon-Chiny-Heinsberg Arms.svg
Loon-Chiny-Montferrat Arms.svg
Loon and Chiny
  • Counts of Loon: Barry of ten, Or and gules.
  • Counts of Chiny: Gules crusily fitchy, two barbels haurient addorsed Or.
  • Counts of Loon and Chiny: Barry of ten Or and gules, impaling gules crusily fitchy, two barbels haurient addorsed Or.
  • Counts of Loon and Chiny of the Heinsberg dynasty: Quarterly, I and IV gules a lion rampant argent, queue fourchée crossed in saltire; II and III barry of ten Or and gules impaling gules crusily fitchy two barbels haurient addorsed Or.
  • Counts of Loon and Chiny of the Montferrat-Oreye dynasty: Quarterly, I and IV argent a lion rampant sable; II and III barry of ten Or and gules impaling gules crusily fitchy two barbels haurient addorsed Or.
Arms of the Counts of Luxembourg.svg Arms of Luxembourg.svg Luxembourg
  • Until 1282 and after 1288: Barry of ten argent and azure, a lion rampant gules, armed, langued, and crowned Or.
  • From 1282 to 1288: Barry of ten argent and azure, a lion rampant queue fourchée crossed in saltire gules, armed, langued, and crowned Or.
Arms of Namur.svg Namur

Or, a lion rampant sable, armed and langued gules, a bend overall of the same.

Franconian Circle

Arms Location and blazon
Wappen Bistum bamberg.svg Bamberg

Or, a lion rampant armed and langued gules, overall a ribband argent.

Wappen Nellingen auf den Fildern.svg Castell

Quarterly, argent and gules.

Wappen Grafschaft Erbach.svg Erbach

Party per fess gules and argent, three six-pointed mullets counterchanged.

Wappen von Hausen.png Hausen

Party per fess, in chief Or, a demi-waterwheel sable; in base per pale, dexter per chevron issuing from the dexter chief sable and gules a chevron issuing from the dexter chief argent, sinister argent a palm leaf gules.

Wappen Grafschaft Hohenlohe.png Hohenlohe

Argent, two lions passant guardant sable, langued gules.

Wappen Loewenstein.png Löwenstein-Wertheim

Party per fess: fusily argent and azure; and Or, a lion statant gules, atop a mount azure.

Wappen von Nürnberg.svg Nuremberg

Or, a double-headed eagle sable dimidiating bendy gules and argent.

Wappen Rieneck.png Rieneck

Quarterly: chevrony Or and gules; and barry Or and gules; overall a Wheel of Mainz argent.

Wappen von Rothenburg ob der Tauber.png Rothenburg ob der Tauber

Argent, a double-towered castle gules.

Wappen der Fürsten von Schwarzenberg 1792.jpg Schwarzenberg

Quarterly: paley azure and argent; Or, a raven pecking the eye out of a Turk's head couped at the neck proper.

WappenSchweinfurt.jpg Schweinfurt

Azure an eagle displayed argent.

Wappen Seinsheim.png Seinsheim

Argent, three pallets azure, a bend sinister wavy Or.

Wappen von Weissenburg.png Weißenburg im Nordgau

Gules, a castle argent, portcullised Or, with an escutcheon of the Imperial arms (Or, a double-headed eagle sable) at the honour point.

Wappen Welzheim.png Welzheim

Argent, a pine tree on a mount Vert.

Wappen Wertheim.png Wertheim

Party per fess: Or, a demi-eagle displayed sable; and azure three roses argent.

Wiesentheid.jpg Wiesentheid

Gules, a lion passant reversed Or, crowned Or; with three stems of grass surtout, all on a mount Vert.

Wappen Bad Windsheim.png Windsheim

Argent, an eagle sable, armed and langued Or, with a W Or on the breast.

Wappen Bistum Würzburg.svg Würzburg

Argent a Celtic cross sable; a chief dancetty gules (de).

Lower Rhenish-Westphalian Circle

Arms Location/Blazon
Cleves Arms.svg Mark-Cleves Arms.svg Cleves
  • Cleves dynasty: Gules, an escutcheon argent, overall an escarbuncle Or.
  • Mark dynasty: Quarterly, I and IV gules an escutcheon argent, overall an escarbuncle Or; II and III Or a fess chequy argent and gules.
Berg Arms.svg Berg

Argent a lion rampant gules, queue fourchée crossed in saltire, armed, langued, and crowned Or.

Arms of Flanders.svg Jülich

Or a lion rampant sable, armed and langued gules.

Armoiries Principauté de Liège.svg Liège

Quarterly: I: gules a fess argent; II: Argent, three lions rampant vert, crowned or, armed and langued gules; III: Barry gules and or; IV: Or, three hunting horns gules, hooped and belted argent. Overall an inescutcheon gules, a perron or, supported by three lions, surmounted by a pineapple and a cross pattée, with the capital letters L and G aside, all of the same.

Counts of Mark Arms.svg Mark-Cleves Arms.svg Mark
  • Counts of Mark: Or a fess chequy gules and argent.
  • Counts of Cleves and Mark: Quarterly, I and IV gules an escutcheon argent, overall an escarbuncle Or; II and III Or a fess chequy gules and argent.
Ravensberg Arms.svg Ravensberg

Argent three chevrons gules.

Upper Rhenish Circle

Arms Location/Blazon
Coat of arms of Hesse.svg Hesse

Azure a lion rampant barry argent and gules.

Blason Lorraine.svg Lorraine Arms 1430.svg
Lorraine Arms 1473.svg Lorraine Arms 1538.svg
Lorraine
  • Before 1430: Or a bend gules three alerions displayed argent.
  • From 1430 to 1473: Quarterly of six, I barry of eight gules and argent (for Hungary); II azure semy-de-lis Or a label gules (for Naples); III argent a cross potent and four crosslets Or (for Jerusalem); IV azure semy-de-lis Or a bordure gules (for the House of Valois-Anjou); V azure crusilly fitchy, two barbels haurient addorsed Or (for Bar); VI Or a bend gules three alerions argent (for Lorraine); overall an inescutcheon Or four pallets gules (for Aragon).
  • From 1473 to 1508: Quarterly, I barry of eight gules and argent impaling azure semy-de-lis Or a label gules; II argent a cross potent and four crosslets Or impaling Or four pallets gules; III azure semy-de-lis Or a bordure gules; IV azure crusilly fitchy, two barbels haurient addorsed Or; overall an inescutcheon Or a bend gules three alerions argent.
  • From 1538 to 1737: Quarterly, I barry of eight gules and argent impaling azure semy-de-lis Or a label gules; II argent a cross potent and four crosslets Or impaling Or four pallets gules; III azure semy-de-lis Or a bordure gules impaling azure a lion sinister rampant Or, armed, langued, and crowned gules (for Guelders); IV Or a lion rampant sable, armed and langued gules (for Jülich) impaling azure crusilly fitchy, two barbels haurient addorsed Or; overall an inescutcheon Or a bend gules three alerions argent.
Blason duche fr Savoie.svg Savoy

Gules a cross argent.

Vaudemont Arms.svg Blason Joinville 52.svg
Armoiries Comtes Lorraine-Vaudémont.png
Vaudémont
  • Before 1346: Barry of ten, argent and sable.
  • From 1346 to 1386
  • From 1386 to 1473: Or, on a bend gules three alerions argent, overall a label azure.

Electoral Rhenish Circle

Arms Location and blazon
Wappen Aremberg.svg Arenberg

Gules, three estoiles Or voided; on a chief Or three torteaux.

Beilster.jpg Beilstein

Gules, a hunting horn argent, bound Or.

Teutonic Knights Arms.svg Cologne

Argent a cross sable.[2]

Arms-Isenburg.svg Lower Isenburg

Argent two bars sable.

Mainz Arms.svg Mainz

Gules, a wheel argent.

Arms of the Palatinate (Old).svg Arms of the Palatinate (Bavaria-Palatinate).svg Electoral Palatinate
  • Before 1214: Sable a lion rampant Or crowned gules.
  • After 1214: Quarterly, I and IV fusilly bendwise argent and azure (for Bavaria); II and III sable a lion rampant Or, armed, langued, and crowned gules.[4]
Wappen Thurn und Taxis.svg Thurn und Taxis

Quarterly: argent, two sceptres Or in saltire, tipped with fleurs-de-lys Or, overall a tower gules, ajouré azure; and Or a lion gules, crowned, armed and langued azure; overall an escutcheon: azure, a badger argent.

Trier Arms.svg Trier

Argent a cross gules.[2]

Lower Saxon Circle

Arms Location
Holstein Arms.svg Holstein

Gules, a nesselblatt argent.

Upper Saxon Circle

Arms Location/Blazon
Wappen Mark Brandenburg.png Brandenburg

Argent an eagle displayed gules crowned Or.

POL księstwo pomorskie COA.svg Pomerania
Coat of arms of Saxony.svg Saxony

Barry sable and Or, a crancelin vert.

Swabian Circle

Arms Location/Blazon
Wappen Augsburg 1811.svg Augsburg
Coat of arms of Baden.svg Baden

Or a bend gules.

Fugger Coat of Arms.svg Fugger

Per pale Or and azure, two fleur-de-lis counterchanged.

Wappen Reichsabtei Salem.svg Salem Abbey
Teck Arms.svg Teck

Fusilly bendwise sinister sable and Or.

Bohemia

Arms Location/Blazon
Moravia.svg Moravia

Azure an eagle displayed chequy argent and gules, crowned Or.

Goerlitz Arms.svg Görlitz

Per fess, chief gules a lion rampant argent, armed, langued, and crowned Or; base argent.

Armoiries Basse-Lusace 2.svg Wappen Stadt Bautzen weiß.svg Lusatia
  • Lower Lusatia: Argent, a bull rampant gules.
  • Upper Lusatia: Per fess embattled, azure and Or.
Silesia Inferior COA.svg Silesia

Or, an eagle sable, charged with a crescent with cross argent, crowned or.

Other

Arms Location/Blazon
Blason ville fr La Roche-sur-Foron (Haute-Savoie).svg Geneva (before 1401)

Or a cross quarter-pierced azure.

Nice Arms.svg Nice (as part of the Duchy of Savoy from 1046)

Argent, an eagle displayed crowned gules standing upon three rocks sable issuing from the sea azure issuing from the base.

Royal arms of Aragon.svgBlason comte fr Anjou.svg Provence (before 1481)
  • Before 1245: Or four pallets gules.
  • After 1245: Azure semy-de-lis Or, a label gules.
Wappen Preußen.png Prussia (after 1701)

Argent, an eagle displayed sable crowned Or.

Teutonic Knights Arms.svg Teutonic GM Arms.svg Teutonic Knights (1224–1525)
  • Argent, a cross sable.
  • Grand Master: Argent, on a cross sable a cross floretty Or and overall on an inescutcheon Or an eagle displayed sable.
Dauphin of Viennois Arms.svg Viennois (before 1349)

Or, a dolphin haurient azure finned gules.

See also

References


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