The coats of arms, flags, and badges of the House of Lusignan, royal family in the Levant during the Crusades.
First House of Lusignan Including attributed arms.
French Nobility BlazonPeriodDescription 885–1192Lords of Lusignan Barry of ten argent and azure
Motto: Pour loyauté maintenir "To maintain loyalty" 1192–1393Lords of Lusignan, Counts of La Marche, and Angoulême Barry silver and azure eight rooms, a lion gules armed langued and crowned with gold stitching on the whole. 1221–1250 Personal Arms of Hugh XISeal of Hugues X de Lusignan dated 1224. Sceau équestre: le comte à cheval, en costume de chasse, le cor au cou et tenant à la main un petit chien posé sur la croupe du cheval. Legend: * SIGILL’ : HVGONIS : DE : LEZINIACO : COMITIS : ENGOLISME; Revers. Écu burelé. Le champ à arabesques. Legend: + SIGILL’ " HVGONIS : DE : LEZINIACO : COMITIS : MARCHIE.). Douet d’Arcq, Collection de Sceaux des Archives de l’Empire 1, 1 (1863), 397–398.
Barry silver and azure, charged with six cubs reds brochants, posed three, two and one. 1250–1270 Personal Arms of Hugh XII
Barry silver and azure, charged with six cubs gold brochants, posed three, two and one. ?-1274 Personal Arms of Geoffroy I of Lusignan (Jarnac) (c. 1223/24-b. 1274), lord of Jarnac, Château-Larcher and Châteauneuf
1. Barry silver and azure, charged with a lion rampant-brochant gules, debruised by a four-point label gules (according to his 1246 seal).
2. Barry silver and azure, charged with a lion rampant-brochant gules (according to his 1248 and 1269 seals).
Cognac
BlazonPeriodDescription 12th-13th CenturyLords of Cognac
Barry silver and azure eight parts, the label Gules.
Lezay
BlazonPeriodDescription 12th-13th CenturyLords of Lezay
Barry silver and azure, nine martlets in orle gules surmounted to fair canton gules .
Vouvant
BlazonPeriodDescription 12th-13th CenturyGeoffroy I and II of Lusignan (Vouvant), lords of Vouvant and Mervent Barry of ten argent and azure a lion counter-rampant gules.
Motto: QVI PLVS MORTIS CONPTEMTOR QVAM LEO FORTIS "Who fears death less than lion's strength."
Issoudun
BlazonPeriodDescription 13th CenturyCounts of Eu and Lords of Issoudun Raoul Ier, first lord of Issoudun and count of Eu, was the younger brother of Hugh IX of Lusignan. Barry of ten argent and azure a label of three points gules
Rochefoucauld
BlazonPeriodDescription 10th-12th CenturyLords of Rochefoucauld Barry of ten argent and azure three chevrons that in chief couped gules
Motto: C'est mon plaisir "It was my pleasure"* Courcy, Pol Poitier de (1862). In Nobiliaire et armorial de Bretagne, Volume 2. Forest, Grimaud, Aubry. p. 346. Google Book Search. Retrieved on November 12, 2014.
Parthenay
BlazonPeriodDescription 11th-15th CenturyLords of Parthenay and Retz Barry of ten argent and azure a bend gules
English Nobility
Valence
BlazonPeriodDescription 1225–1247Guillaume de Lusignan
Personal arms of Guillaume de Lusignan, uterine half brother of King Henry III
Barry of ten argent and azure a label of five points gules on each point three lions. Supported with a wyvern on each side.* Richardson, Douglas (2011). Kimball G. Everingham. In Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition. CreateSpace. p. 679. . Google Book Search. Retrieved on November 12, 2014. 1247–1324Lords of Valencia, Earls of Pembroke and Wexford
Guillaume de Lusignan, known as William de Valence, moved with his brothers and sister to England the request of their half brother King Henry III. Henry made William the Earl of Pembroke.
Barry of ten Argent and Azure an orle of martlets Gules
Hastings
BlazonPeriodDescription 1313–1389Earls of Pembroke
Quarterly, 1 and 4, or, a maunch gules (for Hastings); 2 and 3, barruly argent and azure, an orle of martlets (for Valence)
Jerusalem Royal Family
BlazonPeriodDescription 1159–1268Kings of Jerusalem
Personal arms of Guy de Lusignan, then used as the arms of the Lusignan Kings of Jerusalem after his death until 1268.
Quarterly, 1 and 4 in blue with the silver cross and 2 and 3 barry silver and azure eight rooms, a lion rampant, armed, langued and crowned with gold stitching on the whole. 1335–1385Prince of Galilee Quarterly, 1 and 4 in silver, a cross of gold, between four crosses of the same and 2 and 3 barry silver and azure eight rooms, a lion gules armed langued and crowned with gold stitching on the whole.
Royal Family of Jerusalem and Cyprus BlazonPeriodDescription 1194–1268Kings of Cyprus
The kingdoms of Jerusalem and Cyprus split following the death of Guy until they were reunited in 1268 by King Hugh III of Cyprus.
Barry silver and azure eight rooms, a lion gules armed langued and crowned with gold stitching on the whole. 1268–1393Kings of Cyprus and Jerusalem
Quarterly, 1 and 4 in silver, a cross of gold, between four crosses of the same and 2 and 3 barry silver and azure eight rooms, a lion gules armed langued and crowned with gold stitching on the whole. 1314–1319Queen of Aragon
Second House of Lusignan
Royal Family of Jerusalem, Cyprus, and Armenia BlazonPeriodDescription 1342–1382Kings of Armenia Advantage of both, 1 gold lion rampant, armed, langued and crowned azure, 2 silver, a cross of gold, between four crosses of the same and 3 barry money and azure eight rooms, a lion rampant, armed, langued and crowned with gold stitching on the whole.
Motto: Pour loyauté maintenir "To maintain loyalty" 1393–Kings of Armenia, Cyprus, and Jerusalem.
Quartered, 1 in silver, a cross of gold, between four crosses of the same, 2 barry silver and azure eight rooms, a lion rampant, armed, langued and crowned with gold, stitching on the whole, 3 gold lion rampant, armed, langued and crowned azure and 4 silver lion rampant, armed, langued and crowned with gold.
Motto: Pour loyauté maintenir "To maintain loyalty"
Flags
FlagPeriodDescription 12th-14th CenturiesFlag of Lusignan Kings of CyprusPiperno, Roberto. "Caterina's Bequest - Cirenes (Kyrenia)." Caterina's Bequest - Cirenes (Kyrenia). N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Nov. 2014.Fuller, Michael, PhD, and Neathery Fuller. "Kyrena." Turkish Cyprus. St. Louis Community College, Mar. 2004. Web. 26 Nov. 2014.
Flag from Kyrenia Castle. The fleur-de-lis symbolised the Lusignan's French ancestry and the cross symbolized Jerusalem and the Holy Sepulchre.FlagPeriodDescription 14th CenturyFlag of Lusignan Kings of Armenia
Symbols
Roses, lions, dragons and mermaids were Lusignan symbols and heraldic elements.Coureas, Nicholas, P. W. Edbury, and Michael J. K. Walsh. Medieval and Renaissance Famagusta: Studies in Architecture, Art and History. p. 94. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Web.
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