Image: Arms and Crown of the Lord Lyon King of Arms

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Description: Official Arms of the Lord Lyon King of Arms. The Lord Lyon is the chief herald of Scotland and presides over the Court of the Lord Lyon in Edinburgh. The first recorded appointment of the Lord Lyon occurred in 1318. The official seal of the Court shows; the arms between two palm-branches, the whole encircled with the inscription: "Sigillum officii leonis regis armorum, 1673" “ Blazon: Argent a lion sejant guardant Gules armed and Iangued Azure holding in his dexter paw a thistle Proper and in his sinister a shield of the second; on a chief Azure a St. Andrew's cross of the first. ”
Title: Arms and Crown of the Lord Lyon King of Arms
Credit: Own work; Based on blazon found in article by: Mrs Elizabeth A. Roads, MVO., (Double Tressure, Heraldry Society of Scotland, No 20 1998, pp77-86).
Author: Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Court_of_the_Lord_Lyon.svg: Sodacan derivative work: Sodacan (talk)
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