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- From: c34657b@saha.hut.fi (Tuomas Viljanen)
- Subject: Re: Imperial Eagles (was: Byzantine Flags, and Another Question
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- References: <BRANDON.92Nov12143335@gauss.math.brown.edu> <1992Nov12.234327.11358@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <BxsD1s.3tE@well.sf.ca.us>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 15:45:29 GMT
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- In article <BxsD1s.3tE@well.sf.ca.us> dasher@well.sf.ca.us (D Anton Sherwood) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov12.234327.11358@vela.acs.oakland.edu> atterlep@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Cardinal Ximenez) writes:
- >> I believe that the two-headed eagle is a symbol associated with the origina
- >>Roman Empire, and that it was adopted by many nations that claimed to have
- >>"imperial" status. Prussia and Austria were both originally part of the Holy
- >>Roman Empire, and Russia's tsars (Caesars) took the name because the last
- >>survivor of the Byzantine imperial family married the first of the tsar.
-
- See the end of the article.
-
- >Prussia proper was never within the Holy Roman Empire, though the Kingdom of
- >Prussia acquired territory within the Empire (and of course Prussia proper
- >was within the German Empire of 1871).
-
- To make things even more confused, the Kingdom of Prussia was, indeed, never
- a part of the Holy Roman Empire, but its direct predecessor was. Prussia
- was formed from the remnants of the Ordenstaat des Deutsche Ordens (the Baltic
- state of the Teutonic Knights) as it collapsed during the 1560's, and the
- last Hochmeister, Konrad von Hohenzollern, turned the Ordenstaat into his own
- hereditary duchy as the Duchy of Prussia. It became an independent kingdom
- during the 17th century. To remember, the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights
- was one of the elector princes of the Holy Roman Empire.
-
- (Arms of the Hohenzollern family are, of course, quartered Argent and Sable.)
-
- >The arms of the king of Prussia had an eagle, but as far as I can tell it
- >never had two heads. Just to confuse you, though, the king of Prussia
- >became German Emperor (i.e., of the Second Reich), and as such he _also_
- >bore the arms of Germany, which _also_ had an eagle, which was sometimes
- >depicted with two heads.
-
- Or, an eagle displayed Sable beaked and armed Gules (one-headed):
- - the king of Germany
-
- Or, an eagle displayed Sable beaked and armed Gules (double-headed):
- - the Holy Roman Emperor
-
- Gules, an eagle displayed Or (double-headed):
- - the Roman Empire (Byzantine empire: the Byzantines always called themselves
- "Romans" (romanoi), never "Byzantines")
-
- Gules, an eagle displayed Sable (double-headed):
- - Albania
-
-
-
- ++ Tuomas Viljanen ++ For a battle like Crecy, you do ++
- ++ Lahderanta 20 A 19 ++ not need a military genius like ++
- ++ SF-02720 Espoo FINLAND ++ Edward III. All you need is an ++
- ++ 358-0-592175 or c43657b@saha.hut.fi ++ idiot like Duke of Alencon. ++
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