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Arms of Villarrubia de los Ojos, Spain

Granted ?

Blazon: Per fess argent a cross of Calatrava gules and of the last, thirteen bezants in pale 4, 5, and 4. 

Okay, first of all, about the eyes: they are not actual eyes. They are the sources of the Guadiana River, which are located near the town. Those get their name from a mistranslation from the Arabic: ﻋﻴﻦ can evidently mean both “eye” and “spring,” and whoever did the translation to Spanish picked the wrong one.

The cross of Calatrava is probably due to the fact that the town was granted to the Order of Calatrava in 1466. That was also the same year that the Grand Master of the Order, Pedro Giron, died suddenly in Villarrubia on his way to marry Princess Isabella - yes, that Princess Isabella, the one who ended up marrying Ferdinand II of Aragon and becoming Isabella I. Maybe it was a very odd way of expressing condolences? The bezants are attributed to the Counts of Salinas, who purchased the town in probably the early 16th century. I did find a record of at least one family with that surname using roundels in a similar arrangement, so it’s not completely out of the question.

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Arms of Abia de la Obispalía, Spain

In use since at least 2013

Blazon: Per bend sinister azure a crown proper and or a croizer in bend sinister surmounted by a mitre purpre, all within a bordure gules charged with sixteen bezants

The name of the town evidently derives from avia, Latin for “grandmother.” This is apparently in reference to the antiquity of the town, which was well established even before Reconquista. I don’t have much in the way of information on the arms, but it seems reasonable that they’re at least partly canting - obispo is “bishop” in Spanish, and the mitre and croizer are essential parts of a bishop’s regalia. (Also, the name of the town might translate to something like “the bishop’s grandmother, which amuses me.) There’s a slight possibility that the bezants were intended to represent some of the archaeological finds in the area, which include gold rings and several coins, but it’s a very slight possibility.

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Arms of Braunstone Town Council, England

Granted 1976

Blazon: Gules on a fess wavy azure fimbriated or between in chief a maunch argent between two bezants and in base a cross paté argent, two shovellers close of the last

Crest: On a wreath argent and gules a stag statant resting its dexter leg on a mound of stones, all proper

Mantling: Gules lined argent

Motto: Spectemur agendo (Let us be judged by our actions)

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Bitcoinist Book Club: “The Bitcoin Standard” (Chapter 3, Part 2: History)

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Sàn giao dịch Bezant, tìm hiểu về đồng coin BZNT

Sàn giao dịch Bezant, tìm hiểu về đồng coin BZNT

Bezant là một nền tảng thanh toán và cung cấp dịch vụ phi tập trung trong thị trường giao dịch và đầu tư tiền mã hóa. Bài viết này sẽ đề cập đến các thông tin liên quan đến sàn giao dịch Bezant (BZNT) như đội ngũ phát triển, các tính năng và và đặc điểm của chúng. Bezant là gì ? Bezant là một nền tảng tập trung vào phát triển các giải pháp công nghệ trong lĩnh vực thanh toán kỹ thuật số và…

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Arms of Robert Fitz Neel (? - 1345?) from the Dering Roll (c. 1270-1300)

Blazon: Paly of six argent and gules on a fess azure three bezants

I can’t find much out about Robert Fitz Neel besides the fact that he was a lord and landholder in Buckinghamshire. The Fitz Neels held various abbeys and manors in the region going back to at least the 1100s. After Robert’s death, his holdings passed to his daughter Grace, who died in 1350. Her minor son John de Nowers returned the properties back to Edward III.

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Arms of Richard de Cornwall from the Dering Roll (c. 1270-1300)

Blazon: Argent on a fess sable three bezants

I’m about 90% sure that this doesn’t refer to Richard of Cornwall, son of King John, partly because the timeline doesn’t quite line up (he died in 1272, so that would put the Dering Roll on the very earliest edge of the estimated composition), but mostly because we have contemporary evidence that he bore argent a lion rampant gules crowned or within a bordure sable bezanté. I find it hard to imagine that the author of the Dering Roll would’ve fumbled the arms of a member of the royal family that badly. (They’re not the Burkes, after all.) 

However, Richard did have an illegitimate son (also named Richard). He definitely wouldn’t have inherited his father’s arms, due to the illegitimacy, but… if he just so happened to be granted arms that had some visual overlap with his father’s, then what could anybody do about it? It’s also worth noting that Sir Richard’s daughter married into the Howard family, and her descendents became the Dukes of Norfolk.