Coat of arms of the Prince of Asturias
Coat of arms of the Prince of Asturias | |
---|---|
Details | |
Armiger | Leonor, Princess of Asturias |
Adopted | 30 October 2015 |
Crest | Crown of the Princess of Asturias |
Escutcheon | Quarterly: Castile, León, Aragon, and Navarre; enté en point, Granada; inescutcheonBourbon (Anjou Branch); the whole differenced by a label azure. |
Orders | Order of the Golden Fleece |
Earlier versions | See below |
The blazon of the coat of arms of the Princess of Asturias in her own right is given by a Royal Decree 979 on 30 October 2015 which was an amendment of the Royal Decree 1511 dated Madrid 21 January 1977, which also created her guidon (military personal ensign) and her standard.[1]
Official blazon
The shield is divided into four quarters, blazoned as follows:
- 3rd, Or four pallets Gules, for Aragon;
- 4th, Gules a cross, saltire and orle of chains all linked Or, an emerald Proper, for Navarre;
- Enté en point, Argent a pomegranate Proper seeded Gules, supported, sculpted and leafed in two leaves Vert, for Granada;
- Inescutcheon, Azure with three fleurs-de-lys Or, bordured Gules, for Bourbon.
The whole is differenced by a label of three points Azure, the difference used by heirs apparent to the Spanish House of Habsburg.
The shield is surmounted by a closed crown, which is a circle of gold, inset with precious stones of their colours, composed of eight rosettes of acanthus leaves, of which five are visible, interspersed by pearls in their colour, issuing from which are four pearl diadems, of which three are visible, which converge in a blue orb, with gold semi-meridian and equator, surmounted by a gold cross, the crown lined with red and surrounded by the collar of the Golden Fleece.
Variants
Before 2001, the heir to the Spanish throne used this coat of arms unofficially, and still does in Aragon or Navarre, where a different version of the coat of arms, as Prince or Princess of Girona and Viana respectively, is displayed. It is likely that these arms will also be some day adopted officially.[2]
Variants of Historic Titles of the Spanish Heir Apparent | ||||||||||
|
History
|
See also
- Coat of arms of the King of Spain
- Coat of arms of the Prince of Spain
- Coat of arms of Spain
- Royal Standard of Spain
Notes
- On sepulchres of Habsburg Princes of Asturias who didn't ascend to the throne their coats of arms are the undifferenced Lesser Royal Arms (Quarterly, 1 and 4 Castile, 2 and 3 León), with a crown closed with four-half-arches in crest. The Pantheon of the Princes of the Royal Seat of El Escorial was completed in 1888, in the nineteenth century the heir to the Spanish throne used Royal Arms differentiated by a crown of four-half-arches.[4][10]
References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Herrera Sánchez, Alfonso (2010). Arms of the Prince of Girona in Heraldry Blog. (Spanish)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Francisco Olmos, José María de Las primeras acuñaciones del príncipe Felipe de España (1554–1556): Soberano de Milán Nápoles e Inglaterra. The First Coins of Prince Felipe of Spain (1554–1556): Sovereign of Milan, Naples and England. pp.165–166 (Spanish)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 Rodríguez de Maribona, Manuel Las armas del Príncipe de Asturias – ABC. (Spanish) Accessed 2009-05-28.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Princess of Isabella's coat of arms with crest: Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Image of the coat of arms on Prince John's tomb.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Articles with Spanish-language external links
- Use dmy dates from April 2013
- Pages with broken file links
- Personal coats of arms
- Spanish coats of arms
- Spanish monarchy
- Princes of Asturias
- Coats of arms with crowns
- Coats of arms with buildings
- Coats of arms with chains
- Coats of arms with lions
- Coats of arms with fleurs de lis
- Coats of arms with the Golden Fleece