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Arms. Name of president and blazon. Arms of Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president, 1801–1809. Shield: Azure a fret Argent and on a chief Gules three leopards' faces Argent. Crest: a lion's head erased Or. Motto: Ab Eo Libertas A Quo Spiritus (The one who gives life gives liberty). [4] —. James Madison, 4th president, 1809–1817.
The coat of arms and flag design originate from the family arms of the noble Van Arkel family, who once ruled Dongen. The embattled stripes represent so-called storm ladders, referring to the storming of Damietta. This was a port city in Egypt during the Fifth Crusade in the 13th century. Previously, people used an alternative flag for the ...
Coat of arms of Bangladesh. Coat of arms of Barbados. National emblem of Belarus. Coat of arms of Belgium. Coat of arms of Belize. Coat of arms of Dewsbury. Coat of arms of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Coat of arms of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Coat of arms of Republika Srpska.
The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the heraldic authority for use of the national coat of arms and the symbolic royal crown. State and civic heraldry. A few Norwegian cities were granted arms (or seals with similar emblems) by the union kings: Kristiansand 1643, Halden 1665, Kristiansund and Molde 1742, Holmestrand and Lillehammer 1898.
The coat of arms is a shield with the image of Mount Triglav, Slovenia's highest peak, in white against a blue background at the centre; beneath it are two wavy blue lines representing the Adriatic Sea and local rivers, and above it are three six-pointed golden stars arranged in an inverted triangle which are taken from the coat of arms of the ...
The coat of arms of the Counts of Flanders is an early example of heraldry, dating back to at least 1224. The vast majority of armorial bearings from the early days of heraldry use only one colour and one metal, which would lead later heraldists to ponder the possibility that there was an unspoken rule regarding the use of tinctures.
According to this theory, [citation needed] the Swedish flag was created during the reign of King Charles VIII, who also introduced the coat of arms of Sweden in 1442. The national coat of arms is a combination of King Albert's coat of arms of 1364 and King Magnus III's coat of arms of 1275, and is blue divided quarterly by a golden cross pattée.
W. Symbols of Wejherowo County. Coat of arms of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship. Coat of arms of Wolin. Categories: Coats of arms by charge. Griffins. Coats of arms with animals.