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Pope Boniface VIII: Popes of the late medieval and early modern period used their family coats of arms (the earliest exception being Nicholas V, r. 1447–1455). The coat of arms of Boniface VIII (r. 1294–1303), an early form of the Caetani coat of arms, happens to be the first coat of arms used by a pope preserved in a contemporary depiction ...
The coat of arms on an escutcheon forms the central element of the full heraldic achievement, which in its whole consists of a shield, supporters, a crest, and a motto. A coat of arms is traditionally unique to the armiger (e.g. an individual person, family, state, organization, school or corporation). The term "coat of arms" itself, describing ...
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]
The Nestle family tree began with three brothers (thus the three young birds in the nest being fed by their mother on the family coat of arms) from Mindersbach, called Hans, Heinrich, and Samuel Nestlin. The father of these three sons was born circa 1495.
Coat of arms of the Queen; Coat of arms of the Princess of Orange; Coat of arms of Princesses Alexia and Ariane; Coat of arms of Princess Beatrix; Coat of arms of Prince Constantijn; Coat of arms of Princesses Irene, Margriet and Christina; Coat of arms of Princes Maurits, Bernhard, Pieter-Christiaan and Floris; Norway. Coat of arms of the King
The Kruys family coat of arms has been in use since the nineteenth century, according to lacquer prints in the family. An early nineteenth-century stamp seal, owned by the family, in which the oak tree appears with the inscription "Magistrate of Vriezenveen", suggests that the oak tree is the original shield element of the coat of arms, and the left part is a nineteenth-century addition.
In reality the arms adopted by the de Ferrers family at the start of the age of heraldry (c.1200-1215) were: Vairy, or and gules. However William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby (c.1193-1254) added to his paternal arms A bordure azure (or sable) charged with eight horseshoes argent, [4] perhaps as a mark of difference.
The House of Lubomirski is a Polish princely family. The Lubomirski family's coat of arms is the Drużyna coat of arms, ... was the creator of this economic power ...