Arms & Blazonry
The Armorial
The shields of the houses chronicled here, each drawn from its historic blazon.
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Duke of Norfolk
Gules, a bend between six cross-crosslets fitchy argent
Duke of Argyll
Gyronny of eight or and sable
Duke of Leinster
Argent, a saltire gules
Marquess of Ormonde
Or, a chief indented azure
Lord Kinfauns
Sable, a mermaid playing a harp argent, within a bordure argent charged with trefoils sable
Duke of Marlborough
The Blenheim augmentation: argent, a cross gules, an escutcheon azure with three fleurs-de-lis or
Duke of Fife
Or, a lion rampant gules
Prince of Thomond
Gules, three lions passant guardant per pale or and argent
The O'Conor Don
Argent, an oak tree eradicated proper
The O'Neill
Argent, a dexter hand couped at the wrist gules (the Red Hand of Ulster)
Duke of Wellington
Quarterly gules and or, a cross argent charged with plates
Duke of Devonshire
Sable, three stags' heads cabossed argent
Baron of the Bachuil
Quarterly: 1st or, a lion rampant gules; 2nd & 3rd argent, a dexter hand gules holding a cross-crosslet fitchy azure; 4th or, a salmon naiant over three bars wavy azure
House of Bourbon
Azure, three fleurs-de-lis or
House of Habsburg
Gules, a fess argent (the Bindenschild)
House of Savoy
Gules, a cross argent
Duke of Alba
Chequy argent and azure
House of Orange-Nassau
Azure billetty or, a lion rampant or
Prince of Monaco
Lozengy argent and gules
Prince of Liechtenstein
Per fess or and gules
Curious how a coat of arms is read? See European Heraldry.