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  2. Flag and coat of arms of Normandy - Wikipedia

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    The three-leopards version (known in the Norman language as les treis cats, "the three cats") may also be seen, which is based on the coat of arms of Richard I of England. The arms De gueules aux deux léopards d'or, armés et lampassés d'azur, passant l'un sur l'autre (Gules two leopards passant gardant in pale or armed and langued azure) was ...

  3. Welsh heraldry - Wikipedia

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    The coat of arms of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, [2] the last Welsh Prince of Wales, depicted in the Chronica Majora. Before the conquest of Gwynedd by Edward I , Wales was ruled by a number of Kings and Princes whose dominions shifted and sometimes merged following the vagaries of war, marriage and inheritance.

  4. List of Scottish clans - Wikipedia

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    This motto and crest is not derived from the chiefly arms, but from a modern coat of arms belonging to William John MacInnis - an American - granted in 1961 by the Court of the Lord Lyon. [204] Tartan for the Clan MacInnes. MacIntyre: Crest: A dexter hand holding a dagger in pale Proper. [205] Motto: Per ardua [205] [Latin, 'Through ...

  5. National symbols of Wales - Wikipedia

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    Traditional Arms of the House of Aberffraw, Gwynedd and the personal arms of Llywelyn the Great. [11] Owain Glyndŵr's shield of arms was adopted by Glyndŵr as Prince of Wales, from 1400. [12] The Welsh coat of arms, or Royal Badge of Wales, which is based on the arms of the native princes of Wales from the 13th century. [13]

  6. Category:Surnames of Norman origin - Wikipedia

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  7. Origin of coats of arms - Wikipedia

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    Every noble family claims to have been granted a coat of arms by a prestigious personage. [Ha 9] The adoption of the coat of arms by non-combatants attests to the symbolic significance of this object, which is an emblem of power and strength, but also of peace and justice, and shows the link between the individual and the group. [Ha 2]

  8. Royal Badge of Wales - Wikipedia

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    The Royal Badge of Wales was approved in May 2008. It is based on the arms borne by the 13th-century Welsh prince Llywelyn ab Iorwerth (blazoned quarterly Or and gules, four lions passant guardant counterchanged), with the addition of St Edward's Crown atop a continuous scroll which, together with a wreath consisting of the plant emblems of the four countries of the United Kingdom, surrounds ...

  9. Bourke (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Bourke (Irish: de Búrca; Latin: de Burgo) is an Anglo-Norman Irish surname, a variant of the surname Burke, deriving from the ancient Anglo-Norman and Hiberno-Norman noble dynasty, the House of Burgh.