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These are the former City arms with a crown of a city council instead of the helmet. | These are the former City arms with a crown of a city council instead of the helmet. | ||
==The arms as used in the town== | |||
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|align="center"|[[File:Edinburgh5.jpg|350 px|center|Arms of Edinburgh]] <br/>Gate | |||
|align="center"|[[File:Edinburgh6.jpg|350 px|center|Arms of Edinburgh]] <br/>Monument | |||
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|align="center"|[[File:Edinburgh7.jpg|350 px|center|arms of Edinburgh]] <br/>near town hall | |||
|align="center"|[[File:Edinburgh8.jpg|350 px|center|arms of Edinburgh]] <br/>Town hall | |||
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|align="center"|[[File:Edinburgh9.jpg|350 px|center|arms of Edinburgh]] <br/>Monument in St. Giles Cathedral | |||
|align="center"|[[File:Edinburgh10.jpg|350 px|center|arms of Edinburgh]] <br/>in the town | |||
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EDINBURGH
Burgh/City
Additions : 1896 Portobello, 1920 Leith
Incorporated into : 1975 Edinburgh District Council in the Lothian Regional Council (1996 Edinburgh City Council)
Official blazon
Argent, a castle triple-towered and embattled Sable, masoned of the First, and topped with three fans Gules, windows and portcullis shut of the Last,. situate on a rock Proper.
[Above the Shield is placed a suitable Helmet with a Mantling Sable doubled Argent,] and on a Wreath of the Colours is set for Crest an anchor wreathed about with a cable all Proper. Motto, in an Escrol above, "Nisi Dominus Frustra". Supported, on the dexter by a maid richly attired with her hair hanging down on her shoulders, and on the sinister by a doe, [both] Proper.
Origin/meaning
The arms were granted on April 21, 1732.
Edinburgh, the Capital of Scotland, has been a Royal Burgh since the reign of King David I, dating from between 1124 and 1127.
The arms resemble, but are not identical to, the device on the earliest known seals of the City of which fourteenth- and fifteenth-century impressions are on record.
 Seal of Edinburgh from 1557 |
The first example of the arms on a shield is dated 1496 and appears on a seal of St. Giles' Church.
The principal charge is Edinburgh Castle on its rock; the red masoning, fans and portcullis denote that it is a Royal castle but the reason for the silver and black livery colours is not known.
The anchor crest is said to refer to the ex-officio title of Admiral of the Forth held by the Lord Provost.
The dexter supporter may be a Pictish princess in reference to the legend that in ancient days, during a battle, the Pictish Kings used to shut up their daughters inside the castle for safety, hence Edinburgh's former name "Castrum Puellarum"; alternatively, she may be "simply emblematical of the fair beauty of the city itself".
The sinister supporter is the doe of St. Giles, the patron saint of Edinburgh.
The Latin motto is an abridgement of Psalm 127:I: "Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain."
 Seal of the burgh as used in the 1890s |
 The arms on a Mitchell's cigarette card, 1911 |
 The arms on a cigarette card, 1906 |
 The arms on a Wills's cigarette card, 1906 |
 The arms in the Coffee Hag albums +/- 1925 |
 The arms on a Dexters cigarette card, 1905 |
 The arms as used on a JaJa postcard +/- 1905 |
 The arms in the Continentale Verlags-Anstalt album, +/- 1910 |
 The arms as used on a postcard +/- 1910 |
 The arms as used on a Faulkner postcard +/- 1905 |
District Council
Additions : 1975 Edinburgh City, Queensferry
Incorporated into : 1996 Edinburgh City Council
Official blazon
Argent, a castle triple-towered and embattled Sable, masoned of the First and topped with three fans Gules, win dows and portcullis shut of the Last, situate on a rock Proper.
Above the Shield is placed a coronet appropriate to , a statutory District, videlicet:- a circlet richly chased, from which are issuant eight thistle-heads (three and two halves visible) Or; and on a Wreath of the Colours is set for Crest an anchor wreathed about with a cable all Proper; and in an Escrol over the same this Motto Nisi Dominus Frustra; and on a Compartment below the Shield are set for Supporters, on the dexter, a maid richly attired with her hair hanging down her shoulders, and on the sinister, a doe, Proper.
Origin/meaning
The arms were granted on January 21, 1975.
These are the former City arms with a crown of a district council instead of the helmet.
City Council
Additions : 1996 Edinburgh District Council
Community councils using arms : Currie, Kirkliston, Portobello, Queensferry
Official blazon
Argent, a castle triple-towered and embattled Sable, masoned of the First and topped with three fans Gules, windows and portcullis shut of the Last, situate on a rock Proper.
Above the Shield is placed a Coronet appropriate to the Council of a City, videlicet: a mural coronet Or masoned Sable, and on a wreath of the Liveries is set for Crest an anchor wreathed about with a cable all Proper, in allusion to the maritime associations of the said Council; and in an Escrol over the same this Motto "Nisi Dominus Frustra"; and on a Compartment below the Shield are set for Supporters, on the dexter, a maid richly attired with her hair hanging down her shoulders, and on the sinister, a doe Proper.
Origin/meaning
The arms were granted on July 18, 1996.
These are the former City arms with a crown of a city council instead of the helmet.
The arms as used in the town
(images December 2016)
 Gate |
 Monument |
 near town hall |
 Town hall |
 Monument in St. Giles Cathedral |
 in the town |
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