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Armorial Of The Holy Roman Empire

This page shows the coat of arms (figures and coats of arms) of the great fiefs of the Holy Roman Empire.

Summary

Holy Roman Empire

Name

Figure

Blazon

Holy Roman Empire

Before 1368, gold eagle displayed with sand, legged, beaked gules and bound ^{Great Offices of}Electors (Erzmter)

Each of Electors was carrying a large office in the Empire. For some secular voters, this office resulted in an increase was registered heraldic arms of its owner.

Name	Brand	Blazon
Arch-Chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire to Germany (With the archbishop of Mainz )	Unbranded heraldry
Arch-Chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire for Italy (With the archbishop of Cologne )	Unbranded heraldry
Arch-Chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire in Gaul and Arles (With the Archbishop of Trier )	Unbranded heraldry
Arch-chamberlain of the Holy Roman Empire (The Margrave of Brandenburg after 1351)		Azure golden scepter in pale posed .
		Azure both scepters gold necklace set with .
Arch-butler of the Holy Roman Empire (The king of Bohemia )	Unbranded heraldry
Arch-Steward of the Holy Roman Empire (The Count Palatine of the Rhine from 1329 to 1623 and from 1706 to 1714, then the Duke of Bavaria , from 1623 to 1706 and after 1714.		Gules, an orb of gold .
		Gules, an orb of gold .
Arch-treasurer of the Holy Roman Empire (The Count Palatine of the Rhine from 1652 to 1706 and from 1714 to 1777, then the Duke of Hanover from 1710 to 1714 and after 1777)		Gules the crown of Charlemagne gold .
		Gules the crown of Charlemagne gold .
Arch-Marshal of the Holy Roman Empire (The Duke of Saxony after 1356)		Coupe sand and money to put two swords in saltire gules .
Archi-standard bearer of the Holy Roman Empire (The Duke of Hanover from 1692 to 1706 and from 1714 to 1777)	Unbranded Heraldic known	After his recovery in the dignity of Archi-standard-bearer in 1714, the Elector of Hanover refused to abandon the title of Arch- Heraldry and brand related.

Offices inherited the Empire (Erbmter)

Marks hereditary heraldic offices globally resume those grandparents offices. They differ, however by working as part of partition rather than on-the-whole.

Name	Figure	Blazon
Hereditary Chamberlain of the Empire (Home of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen , since 1520)		Two scepters gold saltire on a field gules . Scope first in on-all, then in quarters.
Echanson hereditary Empire (Home of Limpurg from 1356 to 1713)		A double cup gold stitching on the cartelures .
Hereditary Marshal of the Empire (Home of Pappenheim, since the twelfth century)		Archimarchal mark (two swords in saltire gules on a cut and sand silver) used in 1 and 4 of a quartered. .
Hereditary seneschal of the Empire (Home of Waldburg since 1525)		Mark archisnchal (A golden orb cruciferous on field gules) used in-chief. .
Treasurer hereditary Empire (Home of Sinzendorf since 1654)		Arch-mark (a crown of Charlemagne gold on field gules) used as the first element of a cut .

Imperial Offices (Reichsmter)

Some of the lineages possessing weapons increased their courtly dignities of a mark heraldry.

Name	Brand	Holder	Blazon
Standard-bearer of the Empire (The Duke of Wurttemberg )			A banner with gold band with an eagle of sand on a blue field .
Usher of the Empire (The count of Werthern)			A stick of gold band with three leaves on a field of sand .
Huntsman of the Empire (The Count of Urach)			A horn gules, lined with silver and azure attached on a gold (Form the crest of the Dukes of Wrttemberg, also the counts of Urach) .
Groom of the Empire (The prince of Schwarzburg )			A fork and a comb in fasces gules on a field of gold .

Imperial Circles

Circle of Austria

Name	Figure	Blazon
Austria (Duchy then archduchy)		Gules a fess silver ^,.
Carinthia (duchy)		Party gold, three leopards sand and Gules a fess silver ^,.
Carniola (duchy)		Argent, an eagle azure Member Language and beaked Gules a crescent checkered reds and gold .
Styria (duchy)		Vert, a panther argent armed gules and accorne, spitting fire from the same ^,.
Tyrol (County)		Argent's unfettered Gules beaked and hefty gold .

Circle of Bavaria

Name	Figure	Blazon
Bavaria (See Armorial family of Wittelsbach )		Before 1623 (the dukes of Bavaria): slender strip of blue and silver ^,.
Bavaria (See Armorial family of Wittelsbach )		After 1623 (Electors of Bavaria): quarterly 1 and 4 in Sandy, a lion or armed and crowned gules and 2 and 3 slender strip of blue and silver, while the reds the orb of gold rimmed same .

Circle of Burgundy

Name	Figure	Blazon
Burgundy (county)		Before 1280: reds with the unfettered money ^, ^,.
Burgundy (county)		After 1280: billets azure sown with gold lion Or, armed and langued gules, surmounting all .
Brabant (county and duchy)		Before 1288: Sable a lion Or, armed gules langued .
		From 1288 to 1406: Quarterly, 1 and 4 in Sandy, a lion or armed and langued mouths, and 2 and 3 silver a lion rampant, tail forked, armed and golden lamp .
		From 1406 to 1430: quartered in 1 and 4 azure three fleur de lys gold and silver border compony and gules, in 2 of sand in golden lion, forked tail, armed and langued reds and 3 silver lion gules armed and crowned with golden lamps .
Flanders (county)		D'or, a lion sable armed gules and langued .
Gelderland (county and duchy)		Before 1236: three gold cinquefoils .
		From 1236 to 1276: on Azure billets or a lion as well ^,
		From 1276 to 1378: Azure a lion rampant Or armed, and crowned gules .
		After 1378 party, a lion azure crowned or circumvented, armed and crowned gules, and 2 gold lion sable armed gules and langued .
Hainaut (County)		Before 1299: seasoned gold and sand .
		From 1299 to 1254: Quarterly 1 and 4 in gold, a lion sable armed and langued reds and 2 and 3 gold, a lion gules, armed and langued Azure .
		From 1254 to 1433: Quarterly 1 and 4 in slender strip of blue and silver in 2 and 3 cons-quartered in 1 and 4 gold, a lion sable armed and langued reds and 2 and 3 gold, a lion gules, armed and langued Azure .
Holland (County)		Before 1299: gold, a lion gules, armed and langued Azure . After 1299: the same as that of Hainaut .
Limburg (county and duchy) (See also Arms of Limburg and Luxembourg )		Before 1214: silver lion rampant armed and golden lamp .
		After 1214: silver lion rampant, tail forked, armed and crowned with gold .
Loon and Chiny (counties)		Counts of Loon: barry gules and gold .
		Comtes de Chiny: gules seeded of cross gold and two gold bars .
		Counts of Loon and Chiny: party, a barry gold and reds and two gules seeded of cross gold and two gold bars
		Counts of Loon and Chiny the house of Heinsberg: quartered in 1 and 4 gules, a party in a barry gold and reds and two gules seeded of cross gold and two bars of gold, and 2 and 3 silver lion, tail forked looped .
		Counts of Loon and Chiny the house of Montferrat-Oreye: quarterly 1 and 4 in silver, a lion sable, 2 and 3 and left in a gold and barry gules and gules seeded in 2 of cross gold and two gold bars .
Luxembourg (county and duchy) (See also Arms of Limburg and Luxembourg )		From 1240 to 1281 and after 1288: barry silver and azure in ten parts, a lion gules armed and crowned with gold .
		From 1282 to 1288: barry silver and azure in ten parts, a lion rampant, tail forked crossed in saltire, armed and crowned with gold .
Namur (county then marquisate)		D'or, a lion sable armed and langued reds and reds to the band .

Circle of Franconia

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Circle of the Lower Rhine-Westphalia

Name	Figure	Blazon
Cleves (County)		Cleves Family: gules, the shield of silver, gold spokes of carbuncle, stitching on the whole .
Cleves (County)		Family of Marck quartered, in 1 and 4 gules, the shield of silver, the rays of turquoise gold stitching on the whole, and 2 and 3 Gold, a fess checkered Argent and Gules three tires .
Berg (county and duchy)		Argent, a lion rampant, tail forked crossed in saltire, armed and crowned with gold ..
Delmenhorst (County)		Azure, a cross patty, fitchy, gold .
Delmenhorst (County)		XV ^century : from gold, two bars gules and azure, a cross patty, fitchy, gold .
Jlich (County)		Golden lion sable armed gules and langued .
Liege (the Episcopal)		Quartered, in 1, Gules, a fess of silver, 2 silver, three lions vert armed and lampasss Gules and crowned with gold, 3, barry gold and reds and 4, Or three hunting horns gules, ferrules and enguichs of money on it-all reds with gold raised porch, supported by three lions on three levels, mounted an apple Pine, surmounted by a flared cross, all gold, landed a capital L and G as well .
The Mack (County)		Counts de la Marck: Gold, a fess checkered silver and gules three tires .
The Mack (County)		Counts of Cleves and Marck quartered, in 1 and 4 gules, the shield of silver, turquoise spokes of gold stitching on the whole, and 2 and 3 gold, the Silver checkered fess gules and three derived .
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Circle of Upper Rhine

Name	Figure	Blazon
Lorraine (Duchy) (See also Armorial of the House of Lorraine )		Maison d'Alsace (until 1430): gold to bend gules three eagles silver .
		House of Anjou (1430-1473): cut and Tierced stake, a fesse gules and silver, in 2 of azure and golden lilies point label Gules, 3 silver in the cross potent gold croslets between four of the same, in 4 of azure lily and golden bourdure gules, azure sown in 5 of cross gold and two bars of gold and 6-gold band gules three eagles money. On all Or four pales gules .
		Ren II, Duke of Lorraine (1473-1508) and his son Anthony until 1538: cut the head into 3 party, the first barry gules and silver, the second of azure and golden lilies lambel gules, the third silver cross potent gold croslets between four of the same, the fourth gold to four pallets gules; tip party azure lily and gold bourdure gules and azure of cross gold and two bars of gold. On the whole gold band gules three eagles silver .
		Vaudmont House (1538-1737): cut and left in 3, the first barry gules and silver, the second of azure and golden lilies point label Gules third silver cross potent gold croslets between four of the same, the fourth gold four pales gules a fifth party of azure lily and golden bourdure gules, a lion Azure sixth of bypassed gold, armed and crowned gules, a seventh or a lion sable armed and langued gules, azure seeded eighth of cross gold and two bars of gold. On the whole gold band gules three eagles silver .
Savoy (county and duchy) (See Armorial of the House of Savoy )		Gules, a cross of silver .
Vaudmont (County)		Before 1346: barry silver and ten pieces of sand .
		From 1346 to 1386 (Family Joinville): Azure three Broyes gold silver link, the Chief Argent a lion gules issuant
		From 1386 to 1473 (junior branch of Lorraine): gold at a bend gules three eagles silver, broken to a label azure .

Circle electoral Rhine

Name	Figure	Blazon
Cologne (archbishop-elector)		Argent a cross sable .
Palatinate (County Palatine of the Rhine Palatinate elector)		Own weapons, used only before 1215 (Welfs): Sable a lion Or, armed and crowned gules .
		After 1215 (Wittelsbach): quarterly 1 and 4 in Sandy, a lion or armed and crowned gules (Rhine Palatinate), and 2 and 3 slender strip of blue and silver (Wittelsbach ) . Because of the highly customized weapons, these weapons are often found responsible for the shield of the dignity of archisnchal Empire (cruciferous an orb of gold on field gules).
		In the eighteenth century (small arms) out of sand bypassed the golden lion armed and crowned gules langued (Rhineland-Palatinate, bypassed) and slender strip of blue and gold (Wittelsbach), grafted to a point of Gules, an orb of gold cruciferous (archisnchal dignity of the Empire) .
Mainz (archbishop-elector)		Gules a wheel of silver .
Treves (archbishop-elector)		Argent a cross gules .

Circle of Lower Saxony

Name	Figure	Blazon
Holstein (county and duchy)		Gules, the nettle leaf silver .
Mecklenburg (duchy)		Gold, the meeting of bull sand langued gules toothed accorne and turned silver and crowned .
Mecklenburg-Schwerin (duchy)		Quartered at 1 and 4 gold bull to meet Sandy, langued gules toothed accorne and turned silver and crowned with two azure, a griffin gold and cut to 4: 1, d Azure, a griffin from gold, 2, vert, the silver lining .

Circle of Upper Saxony

Name	Figure	Blazon
Brandenburg (then margraviate electorate)		Argent an eagle gules, membered, beaked and langued gold .
Brandenburg (then margraviate electorate)		Weapons are also represented with the crown of arch-chamberlain of the empire, dignity possessed by the Elector of Brandenburg: Money, an eagle gules, membered, beaked and langued brandishing his gold dexter claw a golden scepter in his greenhouse and a sword senextre silver and gold handle on all of azure golden scepter.
Pomerania (duchy)		Argent, a griffin gules, armed and beaked gold .
Saxony (duchy)		Barry sand and gold, crancelin vert, surmounting the whole band .

Circle of Swabia

Figure	Name of the principality and heraldry
	Swabia (duchy, who died in 1268) gold three lions from Sandy .
	Baden (Margrave) gold band gules .
	Wrttemberg ( county and duchy (1495)) County: gold, half to three branches of white-sand . Duchy from 1504: Quarterly, 1 and 4 gold, three deer antlers half sand and 2 and 3, Gules two bars of gold-backed From 1568: quaterly, 1 gold, half to three deer antlers Sandy (UAI is in Wrttemberg) to 2 slender band of gold and sand (which is Urach), to 3 to Azure flag golden eagle carrying a hefty sand, beaked gules and gules pole (which is the holder of Dignity Banner of the Empire) and 4 gules two bars backed with gold (which is Montbliard) . From 1568: Quarterly, in a slender band of gold and sand (which is Urach) to 2 to the flag of blue with gold eagle carrying a hefty sand, and beaked Gules the stem of red (which is the holder of Dignity Banner of the Empire), to 3 gules two bars of gold-backed (which is Montbliard) and the 4 gold, a bust of old man complexion, wearing a jacket with a collar gules and azure, and wearing a blue hat and a cap of red (which is Heidenheim), over all of gold, three half deer antlers sand (which is in Wrttemberg)

Kingdom of Bohemia

Figure	Name of the principality and heraldry
	Bohemia (Kingdom) gules, a silver lion at the forked tail crossed in saltire, crowned, armed and golden lamp .
	Moravia (Margrave) Azure, an eagle checkered silver and gules, beaked, langued, membered and crowned with gold .
	Grlitz (duchy) fess gules a lion rampant silver and silver .
	Lower Lusatia silver ox gules on a terrace Vert . We also find: Silver beef rampant gules .
	Upper Lusatia cut embattled azure and gold .
	Silesia gold eagle sable, armed, beaked gules and language, his heart on a silver cross surmounted by a cross of even .

separate states of the Empire before 1500

Figure	Name of the principality and heraldry
	Geneva (County) five points to four gold quipols Azure .
	Nice (County) silver eagle crowned gules a flight down, encroaching a mountain three shavings issuant sand of a sea of blue shifting of the tip and wavy silver .
	Provence (County) before 1245: gold four pallets gules . after 1245: azure fleurs de lys gold point label Gules .
	Viennese (Dauphin) gold dolphin blue, crested, Barbed, Lore, and ear brothel gules

Use for titles: up to Charles V (1519-1552), the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire bore the title of king of the Romans upon his election. He wore the title of emperor after his consecration by the pope. For this reason, some rulers never had the title of Emperor. After Charles V, Habsburg passed and took the coronation as emperor upon their election. During both periods were associated with certain princes to the throne of an emperor's lifetime: the princes now took the title of King of the Romans.

in the table below, the dates of reign are those as king of the Romans, and the princes are listed all kings of the Romans. The emperors are listed, or by the words of consecration (before 1550), or by the words of Emperor (after 1555).

Heraldic use: From the ^thirteenth century , the tradition is to ask the heraldic shield of the staff on the emperor of the empire. Before 1368, the weapons are an eagle displayed. After 1368, the emperors used the double-headed eagle and the kings of the Romans the eagle displayed.

Personal Weapons

Imperial weapons

Name of the Emperor and heraldry

Emperors Hohenstaufen

1138-1152: Conrad III (1093 1152)
1152-1190: Frederick ^I Barbarossa (1123 1190), consecrated in 1155
1190-1197: Henry VI (1165 1197), consecrated in 1191
Frederick II (1194 1250)
Conrad IV (1228 1254)

gold eagle displayed with sand, legged, beaked gules and bound, over all the three lions of gold from sand .

1198-1218: Otto IV of Brunswick (1174 1218), consecrated in 1209

gold eagle displayed with sand, legged, beaked gules and bound, over all gules two gold lions azure armed and lampasss .

1212-1250: Frederick II (1194 1250), consecrated in 1220
1250-1254: Conrad IV (1228 1254)

see above

1254-1256: William of Holland (1227 1256)

gold eagle displayed with sand, legged, beaked gules and bound, over all of gold, a lion gules, armed and langued Azure .

1257-1272: Richard of Cornwall (1209 1272), king of the Romans

gold eagle displayed with sand, legged, beaked mouths and tied; on Argent a lion gules armed and crowned with gold band and gold sand Besante .

1273-1291: Rudolf ^I of Habsburg (1218 1291)

gold eagle displayed with sand, legged, beaked gules and bound, over all gold lion gules armed and crowned azure .

1292-1298: Adolf of Nassau (1250 1298)

gold eagle displayed with sand, legged, beaked gules and bound, over all azure sown billets, a lion wearing a crown closed, all Or, armed and langued gules .

1298-1308: Albert ^I of Habsburg (1248 1308)

gold eagle displayed with sand, legged, beaked gules and bound, over all a fess gules silver .

1308-1313: Henry VII of Luxembourg (1275 1313), consecrated in 1312

gold eagle displayed with sand, legged, beaked gules and bound, over all barry silver and azure in ten parts, a lion gules armed and crowned with gold .

1314-1347: Louis IV of Bavaria (1286 1347), crowned in 1328

gold eagle displayed with sand, legged, beaked gules and bound, over all slender strip of blue and silver .

1348-1378: Charles IV of Luxembourg (1316 1378), consecrated in 1355
1378-1400: Wenceslas of Luxembourg (1361 1419)
Ferdinand IV of Habsburg (1633 1654), king of the Romans in 1653

gold eagle displayed with sand, legged, beaked gules and bound, over all gules, a silver lion at the forked tail crossed in saltire, crowned, armed and golden lamp .

1400-1410: Robert de Wittelsbach (1352 1410)

gold eagle displayed with sand, legged, beaked gules and bound, over all quartered in 1 and 4 Sable a lion Or, armed and crowned gules and 2 and 3 slender band of blue and silver .

1411-1437: Sigismund of Luxembourg (1368 1437), consecrated in 1433

gold double-headed eagle of the sand, legged, beaked gules and bound, over all a party gules, a silver lion at the forked tail crossed in saltire, crowned, armed and golden lamp and 2 barry gules and silver .

1437-1438: Albert II of Habsburg (1397 1439)

gold eagle displayed with sand, legged, beaked gules and bound, over all a party gules, a silver lion at the forked tail crossed in saltire, crowned, armed and golden lamp and 2 barry gules and money on all Gules a fess silver .

1440-1493: Frederick III of Habsburg (1415 1493), consecrated in 1452

gold double-headed eagle of the sand, legged, beaked gules and bound, over all a fess gules silver .

1493-1519: Maximilian ^I of Habsburg (1459 1519), consecrated in 1508

gold double-headed eagle of the sand, legged, beaked gules and bound, over all a party Gules a fess Argent, 2 strips of gold and azure six pieces to border gules .

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1519-1556: Charles V (1500 1558), consecrated in 1519

gold double-headed eagle of the sand, legged, beaked gules and bound, over all off: party chief in a quartered in 1 and 4 gules a castle or port and windows azure and in 2 and 3 argent a lion gules armed and crowned with gold, 2 gold party in a four pallets gules and in saltire two gold, four pales Gules and silver eagle sable, in base money with a pomegranate gules, laminated rod and Vert, and quartered in a pointed gules a fess silver in 2 azure fleurs lily gold band compony silver and reds, 3 gold bands and azure six pieces at the edge of reds and 4 of sand lion or armed and langued Gules, on any party or a lion sable armed and crowned gules langued and money to the unfettered gules, membered and beaked gold ^References