Coat of arms of the King of Spain

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Coat of arms of the King of Spain
Details
Armiger	Juan Carlos I
Adopted	Used unofficially since November 22, 1975. Adopted January 21, 1977
Crest	Spanish Royal Crown
Escutcheon	Quarterly: Castile, León, Aragon, and Navarre; enté en point: Granada; inescutcheon Bourbon (Anjou Branch)
Supporters	Cross of Burgundy
Orders	Order of the Golden Fleece
Other elements	Base point, the yoke with ribbons and the sheaf of five arrows.
Earlier versions	see below

The blazoning of the Coat of arms of the King appears in Title II, Rule 1, of Spanish Royal Decree 1511 of 21st January, 1977, whereby the Rules for Flags, Standards, Guidons, Banners and Badges are adopted. The Royal Decree 1511/77 says:

Contents 1 Quartered Shield 2 Historical Coats of arms of the monarch 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Quartered Shield

• 1st, gules a castle or, triple-embattled and voided gate and windows, with three towers each triple-turreted, of the field, masoned sable and ajoure azure, which is for Castile;

• 2nd, argent a lion rampant gules crowned or, langued and armed, of the second, which is for Leon;

• 3rd, or, four pallets gules, which is for Aragon;

• 4th, gules a cross, saltire and orle of chains linked together or, a centre point vert, which is for Navarre; argent enté en point, with a pomegranate proper seeded gules, supported, sculpted and leafed in two leaves vert, which is for Granada.

Inescutcheon azure bordure gules, three fleurs-de-lys or, which is for Bourbon-Anjou.

Joined to the shield, the red saltire of Burgundy and, to the dexter and sinister of the base point, the yoke gules in its natural position with ribbons, of the field, and the sheaf of five arrows gules with the arrowheads inverted and ribbons, of the field.

All surrounded by the chain of the Golden Fleece and crowned with a crown of the same metal and precious stones, with eight rosettes, five visible, and eight pearls interspersed, closed at the top by eight diadems also adorned with pearls and surmounted by a cross on a globe, which is the royal crown of Spain.

[edit] Historical Coats of arms of the monarch

• See: Coat of arms of Spain

Coat of arms of the Catholic Monarchs (1492-1506)

Coat of arms of Queen Joana (1504-1506 1519)

Coat of arms of Philip I (Nominal King of Castile) (1504-1506)

Coat of arms of Charles I (1519-1556)

House of Austria (1580-1668 1700)

House of Bourbon (1700-1761)

House of Bourbon (1761-1868, 1875-1931)

Coat of arms of Joseph Bonaparte (1808-1813)

Coat of arms of Amadeus I (1870-1873)

[edit] See also

• Royal Standard of Spain

[edit] External links

• Description Standard and Coat of Arms of the King, Flags of The World Web Site

• Origins and History of the spanish coat of arms (in Spanish)

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