This article is about the coat of arms of the country of Belgium and its Royal Family. For a broader article, see Belgian heraldry.
Coat of arms of Belgium
Greater version (French version of motto)
Versions
Middle version (French version of motto)
Lesser version (French version of motto)
Armiger
Philippe, King of the Belgians
Adopted
17 March 1837
Crest
A helmet with raised visor or crowned with a Royal Crown of Belgium
Shield
Sable, a lion rampant or, armed and langued Gules with two crossed sceptres (a hand of justice and a lion) or behind a shield. The grand collar of the Order of Leopold (Belgium) surrounds the shield
Supporters
Two lions guardant proper each supporting a lance Gules point or with two National Flags of Belgium (Tierced per pale Sable, or and Gules).
Compartment
Underneath the compartment is placed the ribbon Gules with two stripes Sable charged with the motto
Motto
French: L'union fait la force Dutch: Eendracht maakt macht German: Einigkeit macht stark
Order(s)
Order of Leopold
Other elements
The whole is placed on a mantle Gules with ermine lining, fringes and tassels Or and ensigned with the Royal Crown of Belgium. Above the mantle rise banners with the arms of the nine provinces that constituted Belgium in 1837. They are (from dexter to sinister) Antwerp, West Flanders, East Flanders, Liège, Brabant, Hainaut, Limburg, Luxembourg and Namur
Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox emblem with unknown parameter "mantle"
The coat of arms of Belgium bears a lion or, known as Leo Belgicus (Latin for the Belgian lion), as its charge. This is in accordance with article 193 (originally 125) of the Belgian Constitution: The Belgian nation takes red, yellow and black as colours, and as state coat of arms the Belgian lion with the motto UNITY MAKES STRENGTH. A royal decree of 17 March 1837 determines the achievement to be used in the greater and the lesser version, respectively.[citation needed]
and 24 Related for: Coat of arms of Belgium information
The coatofarmsof the Kingdom of the Netherlands was originally adopted in 1815 and later modified in 1907. The arms are a composite of the armsof the...
The coatofarmsof the present-day German free state of Saxony shows a tenfold horizontally-partitioned (Barry of ten) field of black (sable) and gold/yellow...
displaying the national colours ofBelgium: black, yellow, and red. The colours were taken from the coatofarmsof the Duchy of Brabant, and the vertical design...
a list of the national coatsofarms or equivalent emblems used by countries and dependent territories in Europe. Flags of Europe Armorial of sovereign...
Korczak is a Polish coatofarms. It was used by several noble families of Clan Korczak in the times of the Kingdom of Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian...
Abdank is a Polish coatofarms. It was used by several szlachta families in the times of the Kingdom of Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth...
King of the whole Kingdom and of all Belgians".;. The national CoatofarmsofBelgium remains unchanged, i.e. it does not incorporate the Saxon arms. Since...
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, The Belgian Lado Enclave and then an autonomous region of Sudan. Seal of The Turco-Egyptian Sudan (1820–1885) CoatofArmsof The Lado Enclave...
zijn leden" (PDF). Belgisch Staatsblad. Retrieved 24 July 2019. "Belgian royal coatofarms gets a 'modern' update". Brussel Times. 1 August 2019. Retrieved...
The flag and coatofarmsof Walloon Brabant consists of a yellow lion on a black triangle, on a yellow background. The upper right and left corners each...
Flags emblazoned with seals, coatsofarms, and other multicolored emblems are sorted only by their color fields. The color of text is almost entirely ignored...
politics ofBelgium take place in the framework of a federal, representative democratic, constitutional monarchy. The King of the Belgians is the head of state...
member of the Belgian royal family who reigned as King of the Belgians from 9 August 1993 until his abdication on 21 July 2013. Albert II is the son of King...
Global Information
