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Examples of heraldic eagles of the 13th to 16th centuries, from Hugo Gerard Ströhl's Heraldischer Atlas. The eagle is used in heraldry as a charge, as a supporter, and as a crest. Heraldic eagles can be found throughout world history like in the Achaemenid Empire or in the present Republic of Indonesia.
Heraldic eagles (3 C, 16 P) N. National emblems with birds (72 P) Pages in category "Heraldic birds" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
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Animals in heraldry. Subcategories. This category has the following 13 subcategories, out of 13 total. B. Boars in heraldry (1 C, 19 P) D. Dragons (6 C, 45 P) F ...
The eagle is so often found displayed in early heraldry that this position came to be presumed of the eagle unless some other attitude is specified in the blazon. The terms expanded and elevated or abaissé and inverted are similar terms often used interchangeably in heraldry but have specific meanings.
To differentiate it from a decapitate (headless) eagle, the alerion has a bulb-shaped head with an eye staring towards the dexter (left-hand side) of the field. This was later simplified in modern heraldry as an abstract winged oval. An example is the arms of the Duchy of Lorraine (or, on a bend gules, 3 alerions abaisé argent).
The two most commonly occurring animals in heraldry, the lion and the eagle, bore special political significance in medieval Germany and the Holy Roman Empire. Neubecker asserts that this "heraldic antagonism... makes the eagle the symbol of imperial power and the lion the symbol of royal sovereignty." [14] According to Neubecker:
The earliest known example ... — "The Enfield is a heraldic animal, having the head of a fox, the breast feathered as an eagle's, the foreclaws also of an eagle ...