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Papalheraldry may refer to: Papal coats of arms Coat of arms of the Holy See Coat of arms of the Vatican City This disambiguation page lists articles...
Papal cross The papal cross is a Christian cross, which serves as an emblem for the office of the Pope in ecclesiastical heraldry. It is depicted as a...
ecclesiastical heraldry, while supporters and crests are less common. The papal coats of arms have their own heraldic customs, primarily the papal tiara, the...
shield. Heraldry developed out of military insignia from the time of the First Crusade. The first papal coats of arms appeared when heraldry began to...
Ecclesiastical heraldry appears first in seals, nearly all vesica-shaped. When Pope Gregory IX waged war against Emperor Frederick II in 1228, papal troops were...
The papal nobility are the aristocracy of the Holy See, composed of persons holding titles bestowed by the Pope. From the Middle Ages into the nineteenth...
"tiara (papal dress)"". Britannica.com. Retrieved 18 May 2013. James-Charles Noonan, The Church Visible, (ISBN 0-670-86745-4) Bruno Heim, Heraldry in the...
Heraldry is a discipline relating to the design, display and study of armorial bearings (known as armory), as well as related disciplines, such as vexillology...
personal papal arms of Pius X are composed of the traditional elements of all papalheraldry before Pope Benedict XVI: the shield, the papal tiara, and...
use among European nobility in the 12th century. Systematic, heritable heraldry had developed by the beginning of the 13th century. Exactly who had a right...
around the shoulders when holding the bishop's mitre. In ecclesiastical heraldry, a mitre was placed above the shield of all persons who were entitled to...
heraldry refers to the heraldry in the Vatican City State. These include the coat of arms of Vatican City and the papal coats of arms. The heraldry of...
the Papal States. The practice of walking with the umbraculum has been discontinued, although it continues to feature in ecclesiastical heraldry and remains...
Mexican heraldry (in Spanish: "Heráldica Mexicana"), has no precise rules, because its evolution has been according to the ideas and prevailing customs...
by Saints Peter and Paul, and by virtue of the doctrines of Petrine and papal primacy, it is the focal point of full communion for Catholic Christians...
Portuguese heraldry encompasses the modern and historic traditions of heraldry in Portugal and the Portuguese Empire. Portuguese heraldry is part of the...
Catholic Church, and has also served as the head of state or sovereign of the Papal States and later the Vatican City State since the eighth century. From a...
The Gonfalonier of the Church or Papal Gonfalonier (Italian: Gonfaloniere della Chiesa, "standard-bearer"; Latin: Vexillifer Ecclesiæ) was a military...
The tradition and art of heraldry first appeared in Spain at about the beginning of the eleventh century AD and its origin was similar to other European...
cross symbols were developed for the purpose of the emerging system of heraldry, which appeared in Western Europe in about 1200. This tradition is partly...
In heraldry, the field (background) of a shield can be divided into more than one area, or subdivision, of different tinctures, usually following the lines...
of arms of Barnard, Baring, Barnes, Bearsley, etc. In British and Irish heraldry, a bear's head is usually muzzled (reflecting the lack of wild bears in...
Portuguese monarchs to award the honour had been granted by a pope in the Papal Bull Ad ea ex quibus issued in Avignon on 14/15 March 1319. While the bull...
pope used to place a scarlet galero on the new cardinal's head during the papal consistories, the practice giving rise to the phrase "receiving the red...
The personal papal coat of arms of Pope Benedict XVI was designed by Archbishop Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo (who was later created a Cardinal)...
Dei has never been an official Papal title. Catholics answer the claims that "Vicarius Filii Dei" is written on the Papal Tiara by stating that a simple...
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