Arms of Saxony Pendant

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Arms of Saxony Pendant

Postby Ryan Shuflin » 08 Jan 2013, 17:29


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Chas Charles-Dunne
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Re: Arms of Saxony Pendant

Postby Chas Charles-Dunne » 08 Jan 2013, 18:21

I have come up against this time and again -

3. The arms of Saxony are usually given as: barry of ten, sable and or, a Rautenkranz vert in bend over all. However, the number of bars and the sequence of tinctures-whether or should come first or sable-have been handled very loosely over the centuries, because these arms, like those of Thuringia, are distinctive enough not to be easily mistaken. For heraldic information about the arms of Saxony, see Siebmachers Wappenbuch, ed. Otto Titan von Hefner (Nuremberg, 1856) I, 1. Abt.: "Die Wappen der Souveraine der deutschen Bundesstaaten," pp. 17-23, pls. 23-37.


I have heard of people wanting to come to blows over it.
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