Claim coat of arms

Claim coats of arms are coats of arms of territories to which an intellectual or material claim is made, although these areas are not or not entirely in the possession of the sovereign.

Examples

Claim to Jerusalem

Coat of arms of Jerusalem

Claims to Jerusalem were made at different times. The Counts of Anjou became kings of Jerusalem after the First Crusade and had this title and the cross in their coat of arms for around a century. As a result, the kings of Naples took over the claims. Emperor Franz Joseph I still called himself King of Jerusalem and carried the coat of arms.

England's claim to France

Edward III coat of arms

In 1340 Edward III declared himself . from England to King of France and included the French lilies in his coat of arms. During the Hundred Years War (from 1337) England temporarily ruled large areas of France. Although Queen Maria I Tudor lost the last English possession on the mainland with Calais in 1558, the claim remained. It was not until 1801, after the French Revolution, that King George III renounced . officially on the claim to the French Kingdom.

Jülich-Kleve

Some parties that had argued in the Jülich-Klevischen succession dispute about the legal succession over the rule of the duchies of Jülich-Kleve-Berg , upheld these claims for coats of arms that were depicted on coins for a long time, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Saxe-Meiningen even into the 19th century.

Carinthian coat of arms

Historical coat of arms of Carinthia

The later Carinthian state coat of arms was originally a claim coat of arms of Duke Ulrich III. His first marriage to the widow and his second marriage to a great niece of Duke Frederick II of Austria raised claims to the Babenberg inheritance on this basis, which became invalid after the Duke's death in 1269.
The coat of arms shows the three lions of the Mödling side line of the Babenbergs - beginning with Duke Heinrich the Elder , as well as the Austrian shield .

literature

• Franz-Heinz Hye : Programmatic Political Heraldry: State coat of arms, uniform coat of arms, claim coat of arms in eagles. Journal for Genealogy and Heraldry Vol. 17 (XXXI). 1993-94, H. 7 (Vienna 1993), T. 2, pp. 281-288

Web links

• Claim coat of arms on www.coingallery.de
• Claim coat of arms on www.welt-der-wappen.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "67. What coats of arms (and titles) did the Habsburgs have? ”In Karl Vocelka: 99 questions about the Habsburgs , Ueberreuter books.google.at
2. ↑ claim crest on coins, Part 3: claims to Julich-Cleves-Berg , site in the portal coingallery.de