Coat of Arms Engravings 18th Century Gallery

Coat of arms Viscount Conyngham Cunningham 18th century

Engraving of the coat of arms of Conyngham Viscount Conyngham, item 93 in an 18th-century publication. Text on this engraving, including motto, reads: 93. Conyngham Viscount Conyngham. OVER FORCE OVER (OVER FORK OVER). About the year 1050, it is said that Warnebald Cunningham saved King Malcolm Canmore (of Scotland) by covering him with hay, concealing him from his pursuer the Pretender King Macbeth. The grateful King Malcolm later bestowed on Warnebald the lands of Cunningham and the motto OVER FORK OVER. Henry Conyngham (1766 a?? 1832) was known as The Lord Conyngham between 1787 and 1789. He was an Anglo-Irish courtier and politician, and the family was connected with Rossgul and Mount Charles in County Donegal. Source: The Peerage of Ireland or A Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom, with engravings of their paternal coats of arms by John Lodge, Deputy Keeper of the Records in Birmingham Tower. Published 1789

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Coat of arms St. Lawrence Earl Howth 18th century

Engraving of the coat of arms of St. Lawrence, Earl of Howth, item 105 in a publication of 1789. Text on this engraving, including motto, reads: 105. St. Lawrence, Earl of HowthMotto: QUE PANCE (Old French (?) for Que pense, What think you). Earl of Howth was a title in the Peerage of Ireland, created in 1767 for Thomas St Lawrence, 15th Baron Howth. The St Lawrence family descended from Christopher St Lawrence who was elevated to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Howth in circa 1425. Howth is in County Dublin. Source: The Peerage of Ireland or A Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom, with engravings of their paternal coats of arms by John Lodge, Deputy Keeper of the Records in Birmingham Tower. Published 1789

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Coat of Arms of France, 1898

Coat of Arms of France, 1898. A woman holding a Fasces, a bound bundle of wooden rods, sometimes including an axe with its blade emerging. The fasces had its origin in the Etruscan civilization, and was passed on to ancient Rome, where it symbolized a magistrate's power and jurisdiction

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19th Century Style, 598255718, Central Europe, Coat Of Arms, Color Image, Cultures, Engraved Image, European Culture, Fasces, France, French Culture, Government, Illustration, Image Created 1890 1899, Image Created 19th Century, Insignia, Lithograph, Print, Republic, Retro Styled, Styles, Symbol