Chapter 644: Under William's coat of arms
In addition to the Kingdom of England, William's other crown was France, which was symbolized by the well-known heraldic lirises on a blue background.
Clovis, the first king of the Molovingian dynasty, the first dynasty of the Frankish kingdom, was already a symbol of France when he was baptized, and legend has it that God gave it to him when he was baptized, but it is not known whether it is true or not.
Later, in order to commemorate the ancestors, the French used this flower as a national symbol.
For more than a thousand years, the iris remained the symbol of France, whether it was the blue-bottomed iris of the Capetian and Valois dynasties, or the white-bottomed iris of the Bourbons.
William decided to take the blue-bottomed fleur-de-lis of France as one of his coat of arms.
The Capetian dynasty, which had been destroyed by William, was a blue coat of arms covered with irises, but William was not willing to use it as it was, but decided to change the iris on the original coat of arms to three petals, and there were only three irises on one coat of arms, which means the Christian trinity of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
In addition, the three three-petaled irises also symbolize light and freedom, symbolizing national purity, solemnity and fairness.
The blue flag with irises and the red flag with three lions were the main elements of William's new coat of arms, and he combined them side by side to symbolize the Norman kingdom as a dual Anglo-French monarchy.
After the new coat of arms was formed, William looked at it repeatedly, and felt dissatisfied, he saw that this kind of layout divided into two, side by side was not very cold, how to look at how to feel twisted, he preferred the style of heraldry of cross division.
The new coat of arms is the coat of arms of the Kingdom of France on a blue background with irises, and the coat of arms of the Kingdom of England on a red background of the Three Lions on the lower left and upper right.
However, a new problem arises, the three lions of the Kingdom of England with a red coat of arms and the fleur-de-lis coat of arms with a blue background of the Kingdom of France are not enough to represent the title and the extent of the territory that William held, who also held the crown of the Kingdom of Lorraine and ruled Scotland and Ireland.
In order to reflect his title and all the kingdoms, he decided to make a larger coat of arms on top of the existing one.
The new coat of arms is a sixteen-division layout, and William first cross-divides the entire large shield into four parts, and then cross-divides each area again, and each area is divided into four parts again, so that there are sixteen areas for drawing regiments.
The cross-split coat of arms made by William with a combination of a blue iris and a red background of the three lions occupies the upper left and lower right corners of this new shield, in an oblique arrangement.
The only blank spaces left for William to place a new coat of arms are the blocks in the lower left and upper right corners.
The coats of arms of the Kingdom of Lorraine, Ireland and Scotland are not yet painted, with the coat of arms of the Kingdom of Ireland being a harp blue coat of arms inspired by the Arthurian legend of the knight Tristan, and the Kingdom of Scotland having a red lion with a yellow coat of arms standing upright.
In the end, the coat of arms of the Kingdom of Lorraine is a bit difficult to choose, originally the Kingdom of Lorraine as a country that has long perished, its logo is very simple, just an ordinary red cross yellow base coat of arms, at most there are four blue dots on the four areas between the red crosses.
Such a coat of arms seemed to William to be very rudimentary, ordinary, and unacceptable, and he preferred to use the Carolingian coat of arms with the black eagle on a yellow background as the emblem of the Kingdom of Lorraine.
Compared with the ordinary red cross yellow coat of arms, William naturally preferred the Carolingian Black Eagle yellow coat of arms, and he had the desire to surpass the Carolingian Charlemagne, so it was more pleasing to the eye to look at the Black Eagle yellow coat of arms.
William used the previous method to combine the black eagle yellow coat of arms of the Kingdom of Lorraine, the blue coat of arms of the harp in Ireland, and the yellow coat of arms of the red lion in the Kingdom of Scotland to form a new coat of arms.
This coat of arms is also cross-divided, the upper left and lower right are the black eagle yellow coat of arms of the Kingdom of Lorraine, called the oblique symmetrical layout, which occupies half of the entire shield area, while the remaining lower left and upper right are the blue coat of arms of Ireland and the red lion yellow coat of arms of the Kingdom of Scotland, which occupy a quarter of the area respectively.
William arranged the new coat of arms in an oblique symmetrical arrangement at the lower left and upper right of the large shield cross.
In this way, William's new coat of arms is fresh again, its upper left and lower right are the Anglo-French combination coat of arms, and the lower left and upper right are the combined coats of arms of Lorraine, Ireland and Scotland, which are also diagonally arranged in pairs, which is very beautiful and atmospheric.
So far, the theme of heraldry has come to an end, and the next time is to add other elements, William intends to add a small coat of arms in the center of this large coat of arms, on which the double lion red coat of arms of the House of Normandy is depicted, to reflect the absolute rule of the Norman family over the kingdoms of England, France, Lorraine, Ireland and Scotland.
To show the nobility of the House of Normandy, William painted three crowns arranged in a triangular pattern above this small coat of arms in the center, namely the crowns of the Kingdom of England, the Kingdom of France, and the Kingdom of Lorraine.
In this way, William's heraldic coat of arms is officially announced, but this is not over, William's coat of arms is not so simple.
William drew a golden lion standing upright on the left side of the heraldic coat of arms, and a black eagle on the right side of the heraldic coat of arms.
Looking at this coat of arms, which had been quite completed, William always felt that something was missing, and he felt that there was still a huge blank space above the coat of arms of this coat of arms, and a more noble coat of arms needed to be placed.
What could be more noble than the crown, William painted a golden knight's helmet on the heraldic shield, and placed a certain ornate crown on the knight's helmet, and symbolized William's identity, he was both a king and a knight.
To reflect the overall nobility of the coat of arms, William added a ring with gold letters on a blue background to the coat of arms, which encircled the crown and coat of arms, on which was written the Latin motto "Nemo me impune lacessit", which means "Whoever sins against me will be punished".
In addition, on the bottom of the coat of arms, there is also a proverb on a white background in gold letters, which means "the Lord is justice" in French, "Dieu et Mon Droit".
Looking at this coat of arms designed by himself, William couldn't help but feel extremely proud, he had raised the medieval literature to the age of the queen of Galeries Lafayette ****** nine hundred years later.