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Description: coat of arms, Prince-Archbishop Henry of Saxe-Lauenburg, castle of Hagen, Lower Saxony, Cuxhaven. The coat-of-arms shows in the upper left ninth the Ascanian barry of ten, in or and sable, covered by a crancelin of rhombs (they are not shown in this undetailed copy) bendwise in vert. The crancelin symbolises the Saxon ducal crown. The central upper ninth shows in argent three water-lily leaves in gules, standing for the County of Brehna. The right upper ninth displays in azure an eagle crowned in or (the crown is missing here), representing the imperial Pfalzgraviate of Saxony. The left middle ninth shows the coat-of-arms of the Prince-Bishopric of Osnabrück in or a sable wheel, the central middle ninth shows the coat-of-arms of the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen, in gules two crisscrossed keys in argent, right middle ninth displays in argent a cross in gules, the coat-of-arms of the Prince-Bishopric of Paderborn. The lower ninths are repeating the upper ninths in opposite consequence.
Title: Wappen Heinrichs von Sachsen-Lauenburg
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Author: Hans-Jürgen Hübner
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