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The arms feature a red rampant lion with blue tongue and claws situated within a red double border decorated with fleurs-de-lis, known as the 'royal tressure'. The fleurs-de-lis in the tressure are traditionally said to represent the " auld alliance " with France, but this is unlikely as there are records of the tressure being used before 1295 ...
Lion Leopardé ... is a French term for what the English call a Lion passant gardant. The word leopard is always made use of by the French heralds to express in their language, a lion full-faced, or gardant. Thus, when a lion is placed on an escutcheon in that attitude which we call rampant gardant, the French blazon it a Lion Leopardé.
Royal Banner being flown above Holyrood Palace. Displaying a red lion rampant, with blue tongue and claws, within a red double border on a yellow background, the design of the Royal Banner of Scotland is formally specified in heraldry as: Or, a lion rampant Gules armed and langued Azure within a double tressure flory counter-flory of the second, [12] meaning: A gold (Or) background, whose ...
Also spelled morné or mortine, a lion depicted with neither claws, teeth, nor tongue, in the rampant position. The term is from the Old French verb morner, from morne, a ring placed over the point of a lance, from Latin mora, "sword guard". [14] [15]
Richard I (1189–1199) used a single lion rampant, or perhaps two lions affrontés, on his first Great Seal of England, [19] but later used three lions passant in his 1198 Great Seal. The arms bear a striking resemblance to the family arms of the Hohenstaufen Emperors adopted at nearly the same time, which Richard would have been acquainted ...
This controversy originated when part of the Flemish movement started to take an increasingly anti-Belgian stand after the First World War. The radicalized resented that the colours of the Flemish lion echoed those of the Belgian flag and therefore propagated a black lion with black tongue and claws. The divide has remained ever since.
It states that the civil ensign has the form of a fabric banner with the proportions 7 to 5. It consists of ten horizontal stripes, of alternating blue and white color. Overlayed is a red lion in attacking position showing a split tail, as well as a golden crown, claws and tongue. The lion is oriented to the heraldic right.
The royal supporters of England are the heraldic supporter creatures appearing on each side of the royal arms of England.The royal supporters of the monarchs of England displayed a variety, or even a menagerie, of real and imaginary heraldic beasts, either side of their royal arms of sovereignty, including lion, leopard, panther and tiger, antelope and hart, greyhound, boar and bull, falcon ...