Armorial bearings of Scotland

The armorial bearings of Scotland (or royal armorial bearings of Scotland ) were the historical Armoiries kings and queens of Scotland, used until the union with the kingdom of England in 1603.

Armorial bearings

Royal armorial bearings of Scotland (before 1603)

They would have been used for the first time by Guillaume Ier of Scotland at the 12th century. The armorial bearings of the Kyng off Scottz (King of the Scot) are described in a register of the College of the Armorial bearings of London.

Blazon: gold to the lion of Gueules to the double treschor blossomed and against-blossomed of very the

the lion often is armed and lampassé of azure.

Supports: two Licorne S connected

the unicorns are often connected on the blazons, because regarded as dangerous animals).

Cimier : a lion crowned, of face, sitting on a crown, carrying a sceptre and a sword.
Currency: Nemo me impune lacessit

(Nobody causes me with impunity, in Latin)

Cry war: In defens

(Scottish orthography of English defense ).

Scottish version of the weapons of the the United Kingdom (after 1603)

When Jacques VI of Scotland inherits the throne of England (and at the same time the throne Irish), it adopts a blazon combining the royal weapons of each kingdom to make of them the royal Armes of the United Kingdom. A slightly different version is created in Scotland, and this difference will remain including after the Acte of union of 1707, and continues to exist nowadays.

The Scottish version of the weapons of the the United Kingdom offers a choice place to the elements Scot. In districts 1 and 4 are the armorial bearings of Scotland, the 2 armorial bearings of England, the 3D' Ireland. The lion and the unicorn are reversed, the unicorn being with dextral. It is door a closed crown, in the place of a simple collar of cross and flowers of lily around the neck. The unicorn and lion carry each one a banner, the banner of holy André for the unicorn, the banner of holy Georges for the lion. The Scottish cimier (a crowned lion, sitting of face, carrying a sceptre and a sword) is used rather than the crowned gold leopard. The terrace of pinks of Mouths and money, buttoned, tigées and broken into leaf of Sinople, clover and thistles to the naturalness only leaves the place to a floor of Chardon S. The collar of the Order of the Thistle surrounding the central blazon and its currency, Nemo me impune lacessit replaces the emblems of the Order of the Garter.

The royal Standard of Scotland

The royal standard of Scotland or the royal banner of shells (known also as the Lion crawling ) is the flag used historically by the kings d' Écosse. It was one of the banners of the royal armorial bearings of Scotland of before 1603. It of gold to the lion of mouths to the double blossomed treschor and against-is blossomed of same.

After the union of the two crowns in 1603, it is built-in as an element of the royal standard of Great Britain. Today the “Crawling Lion” is always officially used by the British monarchs, and floats with the top of the royal residences in Scotland (Palais of Holyrood or Balmoral) when the queen does not reside at it.

The law

The royal standard (or royal banner ) is the property of the queen and her use not - authorized is illegal according to the Scottish laws (like any use of armorial bearings by someone else that the owner). Only some people are entitled to make use of it, like the Prime Minister of Scotland for example.

However, nowadays, it became common for the Scot to use the flag with the lion crawling like alternative to the Scottish flag. Although that is prohibited, it would be impossible to continue the thousands of people who use it, in particular in the stages. In 1934, the king George V allowed the use of this flag as proof of honesty. One currently authorizes in a rather broad way are use, such as for example his agitation in the stages, but it is in theory always interdict to use it as a flag outside the buildings which they are private or public.

See too

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External bond

: article on the anglophone wikipedia, presenting illustrations of the complete cupboards

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