Blazon of Lorraine
The Blasonnement of the weapons of the Lorraine is: gold , with the band of mouths, charged with three let us alérions of money .
This blazon is in fact in the beginning that of the house of Alsace from which the dukes of Lorraine come. The first to carry it and to transmit it would be Ferry of Bitche (1143 - 1207).
The legend tells that the three Alérion S which composes the blazon of the dukes of Lorraine would be due to the formidable address of Godefroy de Bouillon which, with the catch of Jerusalem, would have succeeded in the feat of ingenuity to spit in flight these three unlucky persons birds of only one arrow! More prosaically, the origin of the figures represented rather seems to be in the logic of the Armes speaking according to a process at the second degree: the term " ALERION" is being an anagram of " LOREINA" , formerly used orthography to indicate this province (but then why three alérions?).
According to another assumption, this blazon would be derived from that of Alsace (the dukes of Lorraine result from the house of Alsace). One cannot speak about Brisure, because the two branches of the family separated more than two centuries before the first armorial bearings, but from imitation: whereas the counts of Low-Alsace carry of mouths to the band of money côtoyée of two blossomed cotices of very the and that those of High-Alsace carry of mouths to the gold band accompanied by six crowns by same, three as a chief and three reversed at a peak , the dukes of Lorraine chose gold to the band of mouths . Because of their bonds with the Saint Worsens Germanic and the house of Hohenstaufen, they placed small eaglets on the tape, which ended up being stylized alérions some.
According to certain interpretations, the three birds refer to the Holy Trinity like with the Three bishoprices of Lorraine (Toul, Metz and Verdun).
Today, this blazon, modernized and " relooké" by the artist Charlélie Seams, originating in Nancy, is used as logo with the District council of Lorraine.
Evolutions of the armorial bearings of the dukes of Lorraine
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