Fleur-de-lis - Coats of Arms and Flags

Coats of Arms and Flags

^ French royal arms before 1376 (France ancien): Azure semé-de-lis or
^ French royal arms after 1376 (France moderne): Azure, three fleurs-de-lis or
^ The arms of the Kings of England from 1340 to c.1411, quartering France ancien. The French arms are quartered as arms of pretence and in precedence (1st & 4th) to the paternal Plantagenet arms as a statement in recognition of the quasi-feudal superiority of the royal French arms to the arms of Plantagenet
^ French flag of François Ist
^ Standard of the French royal family prior to 1789 and from 1815 to 1830
^ Flag of the Kingdom of France
Flag of New France.
Flag of French Royalist during the French Revolution
^ Flag of Quebec
^ Fleur-de-lis of Florence
^ Fleur-de-lis in the coat of arms of Pope Paul VI
^ Zlatni Ljiljan ("golden lily") of Bosnia and Herzegovina
^ Franco-American flag
Flag of Franco-Albertans
^ Flag of New Orleans
^ Flag of Acadiana
Flag of Aroostook county in Maine
^ Flag of St. Louis, Missouri

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