Heraldic Image Archive
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Here is an archive to those states I have information on to which I have also placed a heraldic thumbnail sketch of the device used by the locality. It consists at present of some 90 different arms, representing 96 different states. In almost all instances, the localities are European, and only states which existed from approximately 1150 CE are referenced, since heraldry as we understand the term is a European phenomenon, and was used in a sense we would recognize only after the 12th century. The sketches illustrated in this archive are my own work, and should be viewed with a certain amount of tolerance for their approximate nature: pixel-editing small GIFs means that some fine detail will be inevitably be lost, so if your looking for a design for something like custom tungsten wedding bands, you may want to find a more detailed image then GIFs can provide.

On a separate note: The representations depicted here will in most cases be the latest available designs. Heraldic armoury evolves over time, no less for nations than for individuals. Rather than go through the confusing process of putting up more than one device for some states, and trying to explain the chronological sequence of artistic development in an archive not primarily devoted to such issues, I generally use the later and more fully articulated designs.


Aquitaine
Aragon
Atholl
Austria
Baden
Bavaria
Belgium
Berg
Bohemia
Brabant
Brittany
Burgundy
Caithness
Castile
Champagne
Cologne
Croatia
Dalmatia
Danzig
Denmark
England
Fife
Finland
Flanders
France
Fr. Comte
Frisia
Genoa
Germany
Great Britain
Hainault
Hannover
Hesse-Cassel
Hesse-Darm.
Hildesheim
Hohenzollern
Holland
Holy R. Emp.
Hungary
Ireland
The Isles
Italy
Japan
Jülich
Leon

Liechtenstein
Limburg
Lorraine
Luxembourg
Mainz
Majorca
Malta
Mecklenburg
Milan
Modena
Monaco
Moray
Münster
Namur
Navarre
Netherlands
Norway

Nürnberg

Oldenburg


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Return to the main page of Regnal Chronologies.

See also Francois Velde's page on Heraldry by Countries.

Here is a link to The College of Arms in Great Britain.