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A silver fleur-de-lis on a blue background is the arms of the Barons Digby. [56] In English and Canadian heraldry the fleur-de-lis is the cadence mark of a sixth son. [57] A fleur-de-lis can also be seen on the flag of Monmouthshire, Wales: Per pale azure and sable three fleurs-de-lys or. [58]
Modern historians agree that the Oriflamme was not carried by Guillaume de Martel at Agincourt, as the king was not present at the battle in person. [15] [16] In the 15th century, the fleur-de-lis on the white flag of Joan of Arc became the new royal standard replacing both the symbol of royalty and the Oriflamme on the battle field. [3]
The arms were adopted in their current form by the government of Quebec in 1939 to reflect Quebec's political history: the French regime is symbolised by the gold fleur-de-lis on a blue background; the British regime is symbolised by a gold lion on a red background; the pre-Confederation period is symbolised by three green maple leaves on a ...
A Rose Cross with a fleur-de-lis design on its spokes. The Rose Cross (also called Rose Croix and Rosy Cross) is a symbol largely associated with the legendary Christian Rosenkreuz, a Christian Kabbalist and alchemist said to have been the founder of the Rosicrucian Order.
Fleur-de-lis fleur-de-lis a stylized-flower heraldic device; the golden fleur-de-lis on an azure background were the arms of the French Kingdom (often spelled with the old French style as "fleur-de-lys").
Quarterly 1 and 4 azure a fleur-de-lis or; 2 and 3 argent a rose gules. Urban IV (Jacques Pantaléon, 1261–1264) Woodward blazons with different tinctures: 1 and 4 or a fleur-de-lis azure; 2 and 3 azure a rose or. [18] Or an eagle displayed sable vanquishing a dragon gules. [citation needed] Clement IV (Gui Foucois, 1265–1268)
It was during this period that the fleur-de-lis was used to decorate the circlets. The tiara was kept in the Papal Treasury at Avignon until Gregory XI took it back to Rome, which he entered on 17 January 1377.
A derivative of this usage, is the use of fillet to describe a design component of some heraldic representations of the fleur-de-lis, [36] such as that seen on the Flag of Quebec or the Flag of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (see section #Band as design element of fleur-de-lis below).