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- From: wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org (Wolfgang Zenker)
- Subject: Re: Byzantine Flags, and Another Question
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.015156.8603@lyxys.ka.sub.org>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 01:51:56 GMT
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- mittle@watson.ibm.com (Josh Mittleman) writes:
- : > Roman legions had eagles on their standards, but they had one head, and
- : > looked nothing like heraldic eagles. The Middle Ages associated the
- : > double headed eagle with Empires (actually, I think the "attributed" arms
- : > of Charlemagne had a three-headed eagle).
- :
- : In the examples I've seen, it is a two-headed or one-headed eagle.
- : Attributed arms could vary from rendition to rendition. I've never seen a
- : three-headed eagle in medieval heraldry, but that doesn't mean it doesn't
- : exist.
- : [..]
-
- The double-headed eagle was used in the arms of the holy roman empire,
- because the emperor was both german king AND roman emperor. In 1483
- Konrad Gruenenberg depicted a three-headed eagle in his Armorial as
- the future imperial arms, when the emperor would be king of jerusalem
- as well.
-
- Wolfgang
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