File:Wappen Grafschaft Sachsen-Lauenburg.svg

Summary

The coat of arms of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxe-Lauenburg" class="extiw" title="en:Saxe-Lauenburg">Duchy of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia (Lauenburg)</a> as used between 1435 and 1507 and again between 1671 and 1689. It shows in the upper left quarter the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Ascania" class="extiw" title="en:House of Ascania">Ascanian</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_(heraldry)#Barry.2C_Paly.2C_Bendy" class="extiw" title="en:Barry (heraldry)">barry</a> of ten, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Or_(heraldry)" class="extiw" title="en:Or (heraldry)">or</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sable_(heraldry)" class="extiw" title="en:Sable (heraldry)">sable</a> (starting with the wrong colour in this copy), covered by a crancelin of rhombs (they are not shown in this undetailed copy) bendwise in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vert_(heraldry)" class="extiw" title="en:Vert (heraldry)">vert</a>. (The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Wettin" class="extiw" title="en:House of Wettin">House of Wettin</a> also adopted the barry of ten with the crancelin as its coat-of-arms, when it gained <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxe-Wittenberg" class="extiw" title="en:Saxe-Wittenberg">Saxe-Wittenberg</a>, which is why the barry reappears in the arms of many (formerly) Wettin-ruled states.) The crancelin symbolises the Saxon ducal crown. The second quarter shows in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azure_(heraldry)" class="extiw" title="en:Azure (heraldry)">azure</a> an eagle crowned in or (crown missing in this copy), representing the imperial <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfalzgraf" class="extiw" title="en:Pfalzgraf">County Palatine</a> of Saxony. The third quarter displays in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argent_(heraldry)" class="extiw" title="en:Argent (heraldry)">argent</a> three water-lily leaves in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gules_(heraldry)" class="extiw" title="en:Gules (heraldry)">gules</a>, standing for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_of_Brehna" class="extiw" title="en:County of Brehna">County of Brehna</a>. The lower right fourth quarter shows in sable and argent the electoral swords (Kurschwerter) in gules, indicating the Saxon office as Imperial Arch-Marshal (German: Erzmarschall, Latin: Archimarescallus), pertaining to the Saxon privilege as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince-elector" class="extiw" title="en:Prince-elector">prince-elector</a>, besides the right to elect a new emperor after the decease of the former. The Lauenburg branch duchy adopted this coat-of-arms, used before by the other brach duchy <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxe-Wittenberg" class="extiw" title="en:Saxe-Wittenberg">Saxe-Wittenberg</a> until its extinction in 1422, in order to enforce its failed claim to succession in Saxe-Wittenberg. Thus the different quarters of the coat of arms, from then on representing the Duchy of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia (Lauenburg), were later often misinterpreted as symbolising <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angria" class="extiw" title="en:Angria">Angria</a> (Brehna's water-lily leaves) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Westphalia" class="extiw" title="en:Duchy of Westphalia">Westphalia</a> (the comital palatine Saxon eagle).

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