Coat of arms of the Prince of Asturias

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Coat of arms of the Prince of Asturias
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Armiger	Felipe, Prince of Asturias
Adopted	March 16, 2001
Crest	The Crown of the Prince of Asturias
Escutcheon	Quarterly: Castile, León, Aragon, and Navarre; enté en point: Granada; inescutcheon Bourbon (Anjou Branch); the whole differenced by a label azure.
Orders	Order of the Golden Fleece
Earlier versions	see below

The Blazon of Coat of arms of the Prince of Asturias appears in Royal Decree 284 of 16th March, 2001, whereby His Guidon and His Standard are created.

QUARTERED SHIELD:

• Quarterly 1st, Gules a castle three-towered Or, masoned Sable ajoure Azure, which is for Castile;

• 2nd, Argent a lion rampant Purpure crowned Or, armed Gules and crowned Or, which is for Leon;

• 3rd, Or four pallets Gules, which is for Aragon;

• 4th, Gules a cross, saltire and orle of chains all linked Or, an emerald Proper, 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 with three fleurs-de-lys Or, bordure Gules, which is Bourbon. The whole differenced by a label of three points Azure.

The shield, crested with a closed crown, which is a circle of gold, with an inset of precious stones in their colours, composed of eight rosettes of acanthus leaves, of which five are visible, interspersed with pearls in their own colour, issuing from which are four pearl diadems, of which three are visible, which converge in a blue orb, with gold semi-meridian and equator, surmounted by a gold cross, the crown lined with red and surrounded by the collar of the Golden Fleece.

[edit] Historical Coats of arms of the Princes of Asturias

• See: Coat of arms of Spain

1388-1516

1527-1580 / 1668-1700

1580-1668

1700-1761

1761-1868 / 1875-1931

[edit] See also

• Standard of the Prince of Asturias

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