Brabant lion
The Brabant lion is a heraldic animal and therefore a common figure . It gets its name from its use in the Duchy of Brabant .
He is shown in the black field as a golden, red-armored and red-tongued lion .
Count von Löwen Lambert I, as ruler of Löwen and the Duchy of Lower Lorraine, probably had the lion in his coat of arms for the first time. It can also be proven on a Kerpener aldermen's seal from 1306. It was the heraldic animal of the Duchy of Brabant and is the heraldic animal of its subsequent provinces of Flemish Brabant and Walloon Brabant . The city coat of arms of Kerpen also shows the Limburg lion . These two lions symbolize the union of the Limburg line with the Brabantine after the battle of Worringen in 1288 .
Specialty
For historical reasons, the Brabant coat of arms was consciously used for the design of the Belgian national coat of arms in 1830, because Brabant was the first Dutch province to stand up for state independence and the uprising extended to the remaining provinces of what would later become Belgium.
Demarcation
The Flemish lion , also known as the Flemish lion , shows the same image mirrored in color: a black lion on a golden (yellow) field, also red-armored .
literature
- Karl-Heinz Hesmer: flags, coats of arms, dates. The states of the world from A to Z. Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verlag, Gütersloh et al. 1975, ISBN 3-570-01591-2 .
- Karl-Heinz Hesmer: Flags and coats of arms of the world. History and symbolism of the flags and coats of arms of all states. Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verlag, Gütersloh 1992, ISBN 3-570-01082-1 .