So powerful was the attribution of " the Lions " nickname that three heraldic versions of the animal returned as the jersey badge in 1930.

The system has evolved since the formation of the society ; and now has three Sovereigns of Arms, with Principal Heralds for each Kingdom, each of whom oversee several deputy officers for matters such as heraldic education and processing registrations, and several local officers ( generally one for each local chapter ) who assist the local participants.

The Nice is symbolized by a red eagle on white background, placed on three mountains, which can be described in French heraldic language as " d ' argent à une aigle de gueule posée sur trois coupeaux ".

* The heraldic symbol of Three Crowns, referring to the three evangelical Magi ( wise men ), traditionally called kings, is believed thus to have become the symbol of the Swedish kingdom, but it also fits the historical ( personal, dynastic ) Kalmar Union ( 1397 – 1520 ) between the three kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden and Norway.

Some cities that had been particularly faithful to the Crown were awarded an heraldic augmentation of two or three fleurs-de-lis on the chief of their coat of arms ; such cities include Paris, Lyon, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Reims, Le Havre, Angers, Le Mans, Aix-en-Provence, Tours, Limoges, Amiens, Orléans, Rouen, Argenteuil, Poitiers, Chartres and Laon among others.

The heraldic blazon for the coat of arms of the Keppel family is: Gules, three escallops argent.

In heraldic terminology: Tierced in pale: ( 1 ) Argent, a chevron sable between three roses gules seeded or, barbed vert ( for Smyth ); ( 2 ) or, an escutcheon of the arms of the See of Lincoln ( gules, two lions of England in pale or, on a chief azure Our Lady crowned seated on a tombstone issuant from the chief, in her dexter arm the Infant Jesus, in her sinister arm a sceptre, all or ) ensigned with a mitre proper ; ( 3 ) quarterly, first and fourth argent, a chevron between three bugle-horns stringed sable ; second and third argent, a chevron between three crosses crosslet sable ( for Sutton ).

In heraldic terminology: Tierced per pale: ( 1 ) Azure, a pelican with wings endorsed vulning herself, or ; ( 2 ) argent, thereon an escutcheon charged with the arms of the See of Winchester ( i. e. gules, two keys addorsed in bend, the uppermost or, the other argent, a sword interposed between them in bend sinister of the third, pommel and hilt gold ; the escutcheon ensigned with a mitre of the last ); ( 3 ) sable, a chevron or between three owls argent, on a chief of the second as many roses gules, seeded of the second, barbed vert.

The college's coat of arms, in heraldic terminology, is Vert, three stags trippant argent attired or.

The heraldic glass in the windows display the coats of arms of benefactors and distinguished members of the College ; three of the windows were designed by Ninian Comper.

Each tile bears one of three different ornaments: either an arrangement of four heraldic lilies, a symmetrical lattice, or a representation of four thistle leaves.

The heraldic description of the arms of Ångermanland is: Azure three Salmons nainaint Argent finned Gules, the middle one counternainaint.

In July 1484, William Collingbourne, a Tudor agent, tacked up a lampooning poem to St. Paul's Cathedral, which mentions Lovell, whose family's heraldic symbol was a silver wolf., among the three aides to King Richard, whose emblem was a white boar:

) The three gold sheaves of wheat, or garbs, represent the province's agriculture ; the heraldic sheaf of wheat has become a generalized symbol of the province.

In a triband, the design is of three vertical, horizontal, or diagonal stripes, often formed — from a heraldic point of view — by the placement of a vertical or horizontal stripe ( a pale or a fess, respectively ), over a background.

The heraldic blazon for the coat of arms of the dukedom is: Quarterly: 1st and 4th gules, three cinquefoils pierced ermine ( for Hamilton ); 2nd and 3rd argent, an ancient ship or lymphad, with one mast, the sail furled and oars out sable ( for Arran ).

The heraldic blazon for the coat of arms of the dukedom is: Quarterly, 1st and 4th, azure three fleurs-de-lys or ( for France ); 2nd and 3rd, gules three lions passant guardant in pale or ( for England ), all within a bordure compony argent and azure.

The heraldic blazon for the coat of arms of the Russell dukedom is: Argent, a lion rampant gules ; on a chief sable, three escallops of the first.

Use of the three crowns as a heraldic symbol of Sweden has been attested, in the Nordisk Familjebok, to the late 13th century, the three crowns first ringing the shield of Magnus Ladulås ( 1240-1290 ) and later appearing on the coins of Magnus Eriksson ( 1316-1374 ).

" Each of the three branches of the American armed forces has a unique picture displayed on a medal, which is in turn displayed upon a star-shaped heraldic badge.

The seal of East Looe was An antique one-mast vessel in it a man and boy against the side of the hulk three escutcheons each charges with three bends, with the legend " Si: comunetatis de Loo ".

In heraldic terminology, the shield's blazon is described as Argent, five escutcheons in cross azure each charged with five plates in saltire, on a bordure gules seven towers triple-turreted Or, three in chief.

The heraldic blazon for the coat of arms of the barony is: Quarterly: 1st and 4th, barry of ten argent and azure, six escutcheons three two and one sable each charged with a lion rampant argent, a mullet for difference ( for Cecil ); 2nd and 3rd, gules three tilting spears two and one or headed argent ( for Amherst ).

Designed by heraldic expert Peter Greenhill to reflect the many categories of Guild membership, it features: three escutcheons ( shields ) to represent artists, painters and stainers ; a pair of compasses opened in chevron for building, construction and carpenters ; a dovetail ( separating the top third of the shield from the rest ) to represent cabinetmaking, woodworking and joinery ; and a gavel and chisel for masons and stoneworkers.

These finds included an Anglo-Saxon hanging bowl, decorated with inlaid escutcheons and a cruciform arrangement of applied strips, a folding stool, three stave-built tubs or buckets with iron bands, a sword and a lyre, the last one of the most complete found in Britain.

The arms of Denys and Trefusis are shown sculpted in stone escutcheons on the gables of the restored buildings, although three years later in 1852 Hon.

The battle being won, the old man, afterwards known by the name of Hay, was brought to the king, who, assembling a parliament at Scone, gave to the said Hay and his sons, as a just reward for their valour, so much land on the river Tay, in the district of Gowrie, as a falcon from a man's hand flew over till it settled ; which being six miles in length, was afterwards called Errol ; and the king being desirous to elevate Hay and his sons from their humble rank in life, to the order of nobility, his majesty assigned them a coat of arms, which was argent, three escutcheons, gules, to intimate that the father and two sons had been the three fortunate shields of Scotland.

* Chief's Arms: Argent, three escutcheons Gules

The blazon is Azure, three escutcheons Or, on a chief of the second the South African lion.

He also had before him his own banner, gules, three escutcheons argent.

Geoffroi also had before him his own banner, gules, three escutcheons argent.

This comprised a six-panel fold-out card sleeve, two poster inserts, a booklet and a cut-out and build miniature pyramid, housed in a clear vinyl bag ( with two sleeve variations and three label variations ).

The ignition system of these engines comprised three independent sets of points and coils, one for each cylinder, with the points mounted in a cluster around a single lobed cam at the front end of the crank shaft.

Greek tragedy comprised lyric and dialogue, the latter mostly in iambic trimeter ( three pairs of iambic feet per line ).

In Roman times, the country was divided into Judea, Samaria, and Galilee, which comprised the whole northern section of the country, and was the largest of the three regions under the tetrarchy.

The empire comprised 25 states, three of which were Hanseatic free cities.

It comprised three elements:

Moon's Classic Red Sparkle Premier setup comprised two 14 × 22-inch bass drums, three 8 × 14 mounted toms, one 16 × 16 floor tom, a 5 × 14 Ludwig Supraphonic 400 snare and one extra floor tom of different sizes but mainly 16 × 18 or 16 × 16.

The voivodeships with a majority ethnic Lithuanian population were Vilnius, Trakai and Samogitian voivodeships, and these three voivodeships comprised the political center of the state.

That on the western side was erected first, in direct response to the ban on sales of Western newspapers in East Berlin, and comprised an illuminated display board 30 m wide and 1. 5 m deep, facing east, supported on three steel lattice towers 25 m high and topped by the words DIE FREIE BERLINER PRESSE MELDET ( The Free Berlin Press Announces ).

The research that earned Kroto, Smalley and Curl the Nobel Prize mostly comprised three articles.

William Dampier called into St Helena in 1691 at the end of his first of three circumnavigations of the world and stated Jamestown comprised 20 – 30 small houses built with rough stones furnished with mean furniture.

" The regnum Saxonum was divided into three provinces — Westphalia, Eastphalia and Angria — which comprised about one hundred pagi or Gaue.

In medieval universities, the trivium comprised the three subjects that were taught first: grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

The first stage in this undertaking comprised the three Ordinary of the Mass cycles ( in four, three and five parts ), which were published by Thomas East between 1592 and 1595.

By the late 17th century, the electorate of the three seats comprised the resident freemen of Monmouth, Newport and Usk, and after the Great Reform Act of 1832 the constituency was generally referred to as the Monmouth Boroughs.

The district comprised three extremely fertile valleys formed by the outflow of three rivers, among the most considerable in Asia Minor: the Hermus in the north, flowing into the Gulf of Smyrna, though at some distance from the city of that name ; the Caster, which flowed under the walls of Ephesus ; and the Maeander, which in ancient times discharged its waters into the deep gulf that once bathed the walls of Miletus, but which has been gradually filled up by this river's deposits.

In general terms, the project comprised three different construction tasks: The East Bridge for road transport, the East Tunnel for rail transport and the West Bridge for road and rail transport combined.

By the end of the Republican era, a name for an aristocratic male citizen comprised three parts ( tria nomina ): praenomen ( given name ), nomen ( or nomen gentile or simply gentilicium, being the name of the gens or clan ) and cognomen ( name of a family line within the gens ).

So there was the unique situation that the town of Regensburg comprised five independent " states " ( in terms of the Holy Roman Empire ): the Protestant city itself, the Roman Catholic bishopric, and the three monasteries ( mentioned previously ).

His adult life comprised three distinct periods: as a scientific inquirer lacking money ; achieving great wealth and standing through his reputation for hard work and scrupulous honesty following the great fire of 1666, but eventually becoming ill and party to jealous intellectual disputes.

It is widely supposed that the rites inside the Telesterion comprised three elements: dromena (" things done "), a dramatic reenactment of the Demeter / Persephone myth ; deiknumena (" things shown "), displayed sacred objects, in which the hierophant played an essential role ; and finally legomena (" things said "), commentaries that accompanied the deiknumena.

It comprised three main islands: Lesbos itself, Lemnos, and the smaller island of Agios Efstratios.

The airline's initial fleet comprised four ex-military Douglas Dakotas and three Avro Lancastrians, the 13-seater civil version of the Lancaster Mark 3 bomber.