List of coats of arms with Martin of Tours
In the coat of arms is Martin of Tours , a common figure . He is one of the saints who in heraldry stands for religion in heraldic art. He is depicted as a rider, dividing a cloak with a sword. The supplicant kneels before him. A halo around the head increases the value of the rider. A selection of coats of arms in which it is represented:
- Note on the representation column :
- Is only described if it is not about a saint Martin sitting on a horse who divides the cloak with the sword and gives half to the beggar.
coat of arms | Place name / administrative area | State / Canton | country | Presentation / special features |
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Aigues-Mortes | Gard | France | ||
Amöneburg | Hesse | Germany | ||
Arnschwang | Bavaria | Germany | "In blue, growing out of a lowered silver wavy bar, the golden nimbly Saint Martin with red robe and silver cloak, who divides the cloak with the blue sword, top left with a little shield divided by gold, red and silver" | |
Aschaffenburg | Bavaria | Germany | "On a silver background with a gold border on top, a symmetrical, blue-roofed, red castle with round side towers touching the lower edges of the shields, each kneaded with a golden tower ball, in the archway with a gothic tip placed on a golden seat with animal heads and paws protruding from the side, and - Shoed silver bishop, his right hand raised in blessing, with his left hand holding a left-facing golden crook, clad with a silver pallium and a blue, gold-striped miter. " | |
Bad Ems | Rhineland-Palatinate | Germany | ||
Bad Orb | Hesse | Germany | ||
Berlare | East Flanders | Belgium | also including six scallops | |
Berghausen | Baden-Württemberg | Germany | “In the left half the Baden coat of arms, the red sloping bar in the yellow field, in the right half the armored arm in silver, the hand in pink, which is holding a hanging red cloth. This right part is reminiscent of the local saint, St. Martin of Tours, who before entering the clergy as a knight cut his soldier's cloak with the sword and handed half of it to a cold arm. Kaarst | |
Berstheim (Alsace) | Grand Est | France | without beggars | |
Bingen am Rhein | Rhineland-Palatinate | Germany | "In blue on an overgrown green shield foot, a silver Roman rider with a golden helmet with a plume, tunic, boots and gold-sheathed, silver-tipped, red sword scabbard on top, on a striding, gold-hoofed and red-bridled, silver horse, dividing his red rider's cloak with a silver sword, in front of him kneeling a pleading, with his left arm on a crutch in natural colors, silver man with a red ribbon placed over his right shoulder, a gold skirt and black laced gold trousers, in the upper right corner a red label with a silver six-spoke wheel in it. On the edge of the shield a golden pinnacle wall with five towers. ”- The rider is St. Martin, the sign is the Mainz wheel. | |
Bockenheim on the Wine Route | Rhineland-Palatinate | Germany | "Divided by blue and silver, on top of a striding silver horse with a golden mane, bridle, saddle and tail a golden nimbly silver saint, with a silver sword dividing his red cloak, below on a green arched foot a rising, silver-armored black billy goat." - without beggar | |
Cazis | Grisons | Switzerland | ||
chablis | Yonne | France | ||
The castle | Hesse | Germany | ||
Flims | Grisons | Switzerland | ||
Froitzheim | North Rhine-Westphalia | Germany | “In gold, the bust of a red-clad, right-hand raised bishop St. Martin with a silver staff and gold-embroidered miter, growing behind a black shield with a gold lion. The golden lion comes from the coat of arms of the former Duchy of Jülich. " | |
Gallows | Schwyz | Switzerland | ||
Genk | Limburg | Belgium | ||
Greetings | Thuringia | Germany | "In blue a blue-armored and helmeted rider in natural colors on a gold-bridled, gold-hoisted, silver horse, dividing his red cloak with a silver sword, clad below by a blue shield with a crowned golden lion in it." - without a beggar | |
Yes | Lower Silesia | Poland | ||
Jonschwil | St. Gallen | Switzerland | without beggars | |
Kaarst | North Rhine-Westphalia | Germany | "Instead of the figure 'St. Martin with horse and beggar 'on the coat of arms of the municipality of Kaarst can now be found its attribute ' coat divided by a sword 'on the coat of arms of the city of Kaarst. “- neither riders nor beggars | |
Kaarst | old coat of arms, see text above | |||
Kroppenstedt | Saxony-Anhalt | Germany | ||
Linne | Limburg | Netherlands | ||
Lorch | Hesse | Germany | ||
Marktoberdorf | Bavaria | Germany | "In silver a growing, looking, golden armored, helmeted, leg-lit, black belted, Roman legionnaire in natural colors with a red tunic, cloak and helmet plume, with a gold-tipped, silver sword, the cloak with a growing, golden apron, pleading, naked beggar in." sharing natural colors. " | |
Martin | Žilinský | Slovakia | ||
Martinshöhe | Rhineland-Palatinate | Germany | "In black, Saint Martin dressed in gold on a red-bridled silver horse (white horse), dividing his cloak with a silver sword, including five silver bolls 2: 1: 2." - without a beggar | |
Meddersheim | Rhineland-Palatinate | Germany | ||
Medel (Lucmagn) | Grisons | Switzerland | ||
Nagymaros | Pest county | Hungary | -without beggars | |
Neustadt | Hesse | Germany | ||
Neustadt an der Waldnaab | Bavaria | Germany | ||
Nieder-Hilbersheim | Rhineland-Palatinate | Germany | ||
Nottuln | North Rhine-Westphalia | Germany | ||
Oberlungwitz | Saxony | Germany | ||
Oberteuringen | Baden-Württemberg | Germany | ||
Olpe | North Rhine-Westphalia | Germany | ||
Quenstedt | Saxony-Anhalt | Germany | "In green a four-arched golden glory (nimbus), inside a bishop with a red robe and red bishop's cap (miter), in the right a silver goose, in the left holding a silver crook that is inclined and turned to the left." | |
Raisio | Varsinais-Suomi | Finland | "In silver, a gold-haired and gold-haired, blue-robed, red-booted saint looking forward in natural colors on a gold-armored, bridled and saddled, striding red steed, his red riding cloak held with a cross brooch with his left hand, the silver one in his right, holding gold-tipped sword. ”- without a beggar | |
Richterich (district of Aachen) | North Rhine-Westphalia | Germany | ||
Rüdesheim (Nahe) | Rhineland-Palatinate | Germany | ||
Rudesheim am Rhein | Hesse | Germany | "The rider is St. Martin of Tours, who shares his cloak with the poor in front of him, the standing pilgrim is St. James with his pilgrim staff and scallop." | |
Sendenhorst | North Rhine-Westphalia | Germany | ||
Wins | North Rhine-Westphalia | Germany | “In silver, a growing red battlement wall with an open gate flanked by two black grooved, lowered towers each with three arched windows and a tent roof, raised by two four-pass openings in black and silver, growing out of the battlements an (arch) bishop in natural colors with flowing blond hair, blue regalia and miter and silver pallium, in the raised hands on the right a silver crook with a golden curvature turned to the left, on the left an open silver book with gilt edging, an empty page with black inscriptions underlaid with gold, a small label in the archway, portal pages and lower edge of the shield touching, in it a golden, red armored and tongued lion in blue. ”- French shield (old). Alternative interpretation of the figure as Engelbert I of Cologne | |
Soazza | Grisons | Switzerland | ||
St. Martin | Grisons | Switzerland | "In blue, a saint in a silver, golden ornate episcopal regalia, flanked and underneath accompanied by seven six-pointed golden stars." | |
Šmartno pri Litiji (St. Martin near Littai) | Central Slovenia | Slovenia | ||
Saint Martin | Valais | Switzerland | ||
Saint-Martin-la-Plaine | Loire | France | without beggars, jumping steed | |
Sankt Martin im Mühlkreis | Upper Austria | Austria | "Under the red shield head in silver a raised blue rafter covering the shield head with the point, enclosing a half-sleeved, red cloak, covered with a silver, fallen sword with a protruding blue hilt." | |
Saint Martin | Rhineland-Palatinate | Germany | "In blue under a golden peaked shield head, a gold-nimbed, golden-clad and armed saint in natural colors with a golden, red-tied helmet on a silver, red-bridled, striding horse, dividing his red equestrian cloak with a silver, gold-stapled sword, accompanied above in the first and third point." of a silver lily each, in the middle of the shield foot a silver label with a black horseshoe inside. ”- without a beggar | |
Sankt Martin am Tennengebirge | Salzburg | Austria | ||
Saint Martin | Burgenland | Austria | ||
Sint Maarten | North Holland | Netherlands | without sword, but ring - 'beggar' standing and dressed normally | |
Soazza | Grisons | Switzerland | Beggar almost naked | |
stone | Limburg | Netherlands | ||
Titters | Basel-Country | Switzerland | “In gold, a straddling, standing, blond-haired, red-nimbed, blue-armed and spurred saint in natural colors, dividing the red cloak with a silver sword.” - without a horse, without a beggar | |
Waging by the lake | Bavaria | Germany | ||
Wangle | Tyrol | Austria | -without beggars- | |
Twitch | Baden-Württemberg | Germany | ||
Zillis-Reischen | Grisons | Switzerland | “In silver, a golden nimbly, standing, looking, black-haired, gold-clad and spurred, silver saint with red undergarments and trousers as well as a black scabbard hanging around his neck, dividing the blue cloak with a black-tied silver sword in natural colors for the gold-tied beggar kneeling in front of him , accompanied by two six-pointed red stars in the upper corners. ”- without a horse | |
Zons (festivals) | North Rhine-Westphalia | Germany | “In red a silver saint on horseback, with the sword sharing his cloak with a scantily clad man standing in front of him, in the right upper corner in silver a continuous black cross. On the edge of the shield (city coat of arms) a silver, three-tower crenellated wall crown with a black, central portal. " | |
Zons | North Rhine-Westphalia | Germany | Coat of arms in the version that has been in effect since it was incorporated into Dormagen |
See also
Commons : Saint Martin in heraldry - collection of images, videos and audio files