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Above the imperial eagle rises a Napoleonic star. The eagle is surrounded by a green mantle that is lined with ermine and surmounted by a royal crown in gold. [5] A more complete heraldic description of the arms of the Kingdom of Italy is as follows. Tierced per pale: [6]
The Kingdom of Italy (Italian: Regno d'Italia; French: Royaume d'Italie) was a kingdom in Northern Italy (formerly the Italian Republic) that was a client state of Napoleon's French Empire. It was fully influenced by revolutionary France and ended with Napoleon's defeat and fall.
Napoleon also used the French Imperial Eagle in the heraldry of the First Empire, as did his nephew Napoleon III during the Second Empire. An eagle remains in the arms of the House of Bonaparte and the current royal house of Sweden retains the French Imperial Eagle on its dynastic inescutcheon , as his founder, Jean Bernadotte , was a Marshal ...
These were augmented during the Liberal period by the Order of the Crown of Italy, the Chivalrous Order of Agricultural, Industrial and Commercial Merit, the Colonial Order of the Star of Italy and later, by the Civil and Military Order of the Roman Eagle. [14] In contrast to the Republican orders, the feminine style Dama is used for women.
Napoleon I (1769–1821), Emperor of the French, second son of Carlo Buonaparte Arms as Nobile, 1769-1804: Arms used in right of France, 1804-1814: Azure, an Eagle Or, head facing to the sinister, clutching in its talons a Thunderbolt Or. [1] [2] Arms used in right of the Kingdom of Italy, 1805-1813: Arms used in right of Elba, 1814-1815:
Giovanni Gronchi, President of Italy, 1955–1962 No arms known Arms of Antonio Segni, President of Italy, 1962–1964 Ancestral arms: Or, a cross Azure. On a chief Or, an Eagle displayed Sable Crest: the coronet of an Italian Patrician proper As a Knight of the Papal Supreme Order of Christ, he bore the arms:
An eagle of the Imperial Guard on display at Le Louvre des Antiquaires in Paris. The French Imperial Eagle (French: Aigle de drapeau, lit. ' flag eagle ') was a figure carried into battle as a standard by the Grande Armée of Napoleon I during the Napoleonic Wars.
In the same year, after Napoleon had crowned himself as the first French Emperor, the Italian Republic was transformed into the first Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy (1805–1814), or Italico, under his direct rule. The flag of the Kingdom of Italy was that of the Republic in rectangular form, charged with the golden Napoleonic eagle. [11]