| The Coat of Arms of the House of Baden |
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| Versions |
Arms as Grand Dukes of Baden
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| Details |
| Armiger |
Maximilian, Margrave of Baden |
| Adopted |
first documented in 1243 |
| Crest |
Issuant from a crest coronet a peacock plume proper between two feathers the dexter Or and the sinister gules. |
| Torse |
The mantling gules doubled Or. |
| Escutcheon |
Or a bend gules. |
| Supporters |
On each side, A griffin rampant regardant argent. |
| Other elements |
As grand dukes, the arms were displayed in a mantle and pavillion gules doubled ermine embroidered Or and ensigned by the royal crown; the supporters were also crowned with the same. |
| Use |
No longer used as arms of dominion, the Baden and Baden-Württemberg locals still find use of the arms as representative of the region. |
The coat of arms of Baden are arms of dominion; that is, the historical state was represented by the arms of its sovereign, the Margrave and Grand Duke of Baden.[1] The arms of the grand dukes, and thus their dominion of Baden, consist of a red diagonal bar called a bend on a golden shield. Today, Baden is no longer a sovereign state, but is part of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany. Nonetheless, one can still see the arms of Baden represented in the coat of arms of Baden-Württemberg, as a badge atop modern state's arms.
The House of Baden is a junior branch of the House of Zähringen, which itself is related to the Hohenstaufen family, and was founded by Hermann I of Baden, The Margrave of Verona, son of Berthold I, The Duke of Carinthia, in the eleventh century. The arms of the house of Zähringen share the same tinctures with its junior branch, though they display a red eagle on a yellow shield. The first picture of the coat of arms with the bend dates from the year 1243, but it may have already been in use before this.[2] The Armorial Wijnbergen, compiled from the years 1265 to 1270, lists the arms of "le margreue de badene" as "d'or à la bande de gueules." [3] The supporting griffins were later added by margrave Phillip I in 1528.
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