Coat_of_Arms_of_Philip,_Duke_of_Edinburgh.svg

Description
English: Coat of Arms of HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born 1921, died 2021) granted in 1949 to Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark (Sir Philip Mountbatten) consort to Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. In 1947 the Prince was made Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth and Baron Greenwich by King George VI. The coat of arms represents his lineage as a Prince of Greece and Denmark on his paternal side and his descent of the Mountbatten family on his maternal side.
“ Quarterly, First Or, semée of hearts Gules, three lions passant in pale Azure (For Denmark), Second Azure, a cross Argent (For Greece), Third Argent, two pallets Sable (For Battenberg or Mountbatten), Fourth Argent, upon a rock Proper a castle triple towered Sable, masoned Argent, windows, port, turret-caps and vanes Gules (For Edinburgh), the whole surrounded by the Garter; for a crest, upon a coronet of a son of the sovereign Proper, the royal helm Or, upon which issuant from a ducal coronet Or, a plume of five ostrich feathers alternately Sable and Argent; Mantling Or and ermine; for Supporters, dexter, a representation of Hercules girt about the loins with a lion skin, crowned with a chaplet of oak leaves, holding in the dexter hand a club Proper, sinister, a lion queue fourchée ducally crowned Or and gorged with a naval coronet Azure; Motto ’God Is My Help’. ”
Date
Source Own work
Author Sodacan
Permission
( Reusing this file )
Insignia This image shows a flag , a coat of arms , a seal or some other official insignia . The use of such symbols is restricted in many countries. These restrictions are independent of the copyright status.
I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses:
GNU head Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License , Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation ; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License .
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported , 2.5 Generic , 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
You may select the license of your choice.
Other versions
  • Coat of arms of Philip Mountbatten in 1947
    Coat of arms of Philip Mountbatten in 1947
  • Coat of arms of Prince Philip from 1947 to 1949
    Coat of arms of Prince Philip from 1947 to 1949
  • Shield of arms of Prince Philip from 1947 to 1949
    Shield of arms of Prince Philip from 1947 to 1949
  • Shield of arms of Prince Philip from 1949 to Present
    Shield of arms of Prince Philip from 1949 to Present
SVG development
InfoField
The SVG code is valid .
This insignia was created with Inkscape .

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

inception

20 July 2010

MIME type

image/svg+xml

checksum

0399aa1faf4b0e12cec36b8e092afcf42a297c18

determination method : SHA-1

data size

1,178,066 byte

height

1,450 pixel

width

1,500 pixel