His Holiness Benedict XVI

The arms of Hos Holiness Benedict XVI, with the traditional emblems of the papacy.

The Swedish Heraldry Society

The first page of the armorial presents the arms of the members of the board: Åsklund, (president), Berntsen (vice president), Wasling (treasurer), Bede, Wasling (secretary), Hellström, Bäckmark, Falk, Karlsson and Ulltjärn.

The board of the Swedish Heraldry Society.

Kingdom of Romania (1922-1947)

The shield surrounded by the Order of Carol I and crowned with the Romanian Iron Crown.

Romania’s coat of arms has as a central element the golden aquila holding an Orthodox cross. Traditionally, this eagle appears in the arms of the Argeş county, the town of Piteşti and the town of Curtea de Argeş. It stands for the “nest of the Basarabs”, the nucleus around which Wallachia was organised.

The aquila, being the symbol of Latinity and a heraldic bird of the first order, symbolises courage, determination, the soaring toward great heights, power, grandeur. It is to be found also in Transylvania’s coat of arms.

The shield on which it is placed is azure, symbolising the sky. The eagle holds in its talons the insignia of sovereignty: a mace and a sword, the latter reminding of Moldavia’s ruler, Stephen the Great whereas the mace reminds of Michael the Brave, the first unifier of the Romanian Countries. On the bird’s chest there is a quartered escutcheon with the symbols of the historical Romanian provinces (Wallachia, Moldavia, Transylvania, Banat and Oltenia) as well as two dolphins reminding of the country’s Black Sea Coast.

In the first quarter, Wallachia’s coat of arms, an aquila or holding in its beak a golden Orthodox cross, accompanied by a golden sun on the right and a golden new moon on the left, is displayed against an azure background.

In the second quarter, Moldavia’s traditional coat of arms is shown, gules: an auroch head sable with a mullet of or between its horns, a cinquefoil rose on the dexter and a waning crescent on the sinister, both argent.

The third quarter features the traditional coat of arms of Banat and Oltenia, gules: over waves, a golden bridge with two arched openings (symbolising Roman emperor Trajan’s bridge over the Danube), wherefrom comes a golden lion holding a broadsword in its right forepaw.

The fourth quarter shows the coat of arms of Transylvania with Maramureş and Crişana: a shield parted by a narrow fesse, gules; in the chief, on azure, there is a black aquila with golden beak coming out of the fesse, accompanied by a golden sun on the dexter and a crescent argent on the sinister (symbolizing the Székelys); on the base, on or, there are seven crenellated towers, placed four and three (symbolizing the Saxons).

Also represented are the lands adjacent to the Black Sea (Dobrogea), on azure: two dolphins affronts, head down.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Romania

Arms with the eschutcheon of the House of Hohenzollern-Zigmaringen.

The Greater Arms

The GREATER ARMS OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. I have deliberately left out a few elements (crown, supporters and motto).

Read more about the arms here.

Imperial Arms

The Russian Imperial arms encircled with the collar of the Order of St. Andrew the First Called.

The Order of St. Andrew the First-Called

The collar of the Russian Order of St. Andrew the First-Called. The letters S.A.P.R. stands for Sanctus Andreas Patronus Russiæ.

The Order was established in 1698 by Tsar Peter the Great, in honour of Saint Andrew, the first apostle of Jesus and patron saint of Russia. It had only one class, and was only awarded for the most eminent civilian or military merit.

Peter learned this from his travels in the West during the Great Embassy. In the past service to the state was rewarded with money or large estates. He noticed the ceremonies accompanying the granting of England’s Order of the Garter and Austro-Hungarian Order of the Golden Fleece and noticed the loyalty and pride of the awarded. It also saved the state land and money.

Fyodor Golovin was the first cavalier of the order. Until its abolition after the Russian Revolution of 1917, just over one thousand awards were made. During the monarchy, recipients of the Order of St. Andrew also automatically received the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky, the Order of the White Eagle, the Order of St. Anne, first degree, and the Order St. Stanislaus, first degree. Moreover, recipients of lower ranks were automatically promoted to the rank of lieutenant-general or vice admiral.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_St._Andrew

Rossiyskaya Imperiya

The Russian Imperial double-headed eagle has been covered earlier, but this time I have made a more extended article. You can find it under the “pages” on the right hand menu or click here.

The LESSER RUSSIAN IMPERIAL arms at the time of His Imperial Majesty the Lord Emperor and Autocrat of All Russias, Alexander III Alexandrovich the Peacemaker.

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Baron Johan Skytte

The creator of the Professorship of Eloquence and Poltical science at Uppsala University, Johan Skytte's arms as painted on the fire screen in the Gyllenhielmska biblioteket (library).

 

Gotland

I think this is the first picture posted on a coat of arms. The below shield is part of the banner of the Gotlands nation, the fraternity of Gotland province at Uppsala University.

The Gotland Agnud Dei with a Swedish ducal coronet.

Kamenický (von Hojovic)

Wappen: In Blau ein goldenes Repphuhn (war. v. 1588, silbern). – Kleinod: die Schildfigur auf der Helmkrone; Decken: blau-golden.