Phoenix (heraldic animal)
The Phoenix is in the heraldry as a heraldic animal rarely in the series of common characters or crest .
meaning
In heraldry, the phoenix means, among other things:
- Something that was believed to have been lost but reappears in a new splendor (for example a country, a dynasty, an empire, etc.)
- Rebirth , immortality (for example of a family sex)
- Fire
In 1932 and 1974 it was heraldic animal in the coat of arms of the Republic of Greece . The Empire of Haiti and the city of Cirencester in England also had it in their coat of arms.
Representation and Blazon
In heraldry, the phoenix is a bird rising from the ashes, embers or fire, usually based on the eagle or a peacock-like creature . Sometimes there is a pyre under the fire from which the phoenix rises .
The heraldic representation is always in profile, usually looking to the right (heraldic). Two basic representations are heraldically important: rising out of the flames and flying over the flames.
The phoenix is often emblazoned as a white dove with red wings in the coat of arms of the counts and princes of Hohenlohe . The motto of which is of Hohenlohe "ex flamis orior" (German: From flame I rise). Prince Philipp Ernst zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst founded the house order of the golden flame in 1754 , in the middle of which the cross of the order depicts the Hohenlohe-Phoenix. His son, Prince Karl Albrecht I, renewed the order in 1775 with the name House and Knight Order of the Phoenix with the motto "ex flammis orior" .
The first appearance in the coat of arms is dated to the middle of the 15th century, but is only really used in today's representation from the beginning of the 17th century.
Coat of arms of Bechtsrieth
Weener coat of arms
Coat of arms of Jeggau
Coat of arms of Ferla , Syracuse Free Municipal Consortium
Coat of arms of Tristão Vaz
Phoenix as a helmet gem in the coat of arms of Gray College, University of Durham
Family coat of arms of those of Hohenlohe
Coat of arms of the von Hohenlohe family in the Siebmacher 1605
See also
- Phoenix (mythology)
- Eagle (heraldic animal)
- Peacock (heraldic animal)
- Order of the Phoenix (Greece)
- Princely Hohenlohe House and Phoenix Order (Germany)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gert Oswald : Lexicon of Heraldry. VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1984.
- ↑ Martin Carl Wilhelm von Wölckern on Kalchreuth: Descriptions of all coats of arms of the princely, counts, baronial and aristocratic families living now in the Kingdom of Bavaria. Department 1. Tyroff'sche Kunstverlagshandlung, Nuremberg 1821, p. 18 .
- ↑ www.ehrenzeichen-orden.de: Hohenlohe - Principality. Retrieved February 28, 2020 .
- ^ Joseph Albrecht: The Hohenlohe coat of arms. In: Archive for Hohenlohe History. Vol. 1, 1857/1860, ZDB -ID 211410-0 , pp. 269–320, here p. 292 ff. (Review in: Heidelberger Jahrbücher der Literatur. Vol. 54, No. 14, 1861, ISSN 0179- 0781 , pp. 222-224).
