Veurne

	VEURNE Country : Belgium Province : West-Vlaanderen Additions: 1970 Avekapelle 1970 Zoutenaaie 1976 Beauvoorde 1970 Vinkem 1970 Wulveringem 1976 Booitshoeke 1976 Bultskamp 1976 Eggewaartskapelle 1976 Houtem 1970 De Moeren 1976 Steenkerke Loading map... {"minzoom":false,"maxzoom":false,"mappingservice":"leaflet","width":"250px","height":"250px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"zoom":7,"defzoom":14,"layers":["OpenStreetMap"],"image layers":[],"overlays":[],"resizable":false,"fullscreen":false,"scrollwheelzoom":true,"cluster":false,"clustermaxzoom":20,"clusterzoomonclick":true,"clustermaxradius":80,"clusterspiderfy":true,"geojson":"","clicktarget":"","imageLayers":[],"locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":"","lat":51.0724273000000010824805940501391887664794921875,"lon":2.662132300000000117989884529379196465015411376953125,"icon":""}],"imageoverlays":null}

Official blazon
Dutch	(1819) Van goud beladen met een zwarten klimmenden leeuw getongd van keel, gekeerd ter linker zijde van het schild hebbend eop deszelfs borst een klaverblad, het schild gedekt met een gouden kroon. (1838) Geel koleur, met eenen leeuw omziende van zwart koleur met tanden van zulke kleur, en tong uytsteekende, belaeden met een klaver-blad van groen koleur, het wapen gedekt met eene gouden kroon. (1986) In goud een omgewende leeuw van sabel met op de borst een klaverblad van sinopel. Het schild getopt met een markiezenkroon en getooid met het Frans Oorlogskruis met palm.
English	blazon wanted

Origin/meaning

The arms were officially granted on October 20, 1819, changed on April 7, 1838 and again on December 10, 1986.

The arms from 1818
The arms from 1838

Veurne became a city at the end of the 12th century and was the centre of a large region (Kasselrij) in Vlaanderen. In 1586 the city and the kasselrij were joined under one council. The seals of Veurne showed in the 13th century a plant or flower and on the contra-seals a lion, probably the lion of Vlaanderen. Later contra-seals also showed the plant.

The seal of 1409 showed again a lion. After the merger in 1586 a new seal was used showing arms with on the first half the lion of Veurne and on the second a lion and a saltire, for the kasselrij.

In the middle of the 16th century two versions of the arms were known; a black lion, armed red, on silver, or, as mentioned by Gaillard in 1538, a black lion on gold, with a small trefoil on its chest. Ever since the arms showed a black lion, with or without trefoil.

In 1818 the city received the black lion and trefoil, but now with a red tongue. This was confirmed after the Belgian independence. In 1986 the red tongue was removed and the French War Medal, which the city received in 1919, was added.

Image gallery

The arms in the Armorial Gorrevod (1460)
The arms in the late 15th century
The arms in a manuscript from 1558
The arms in a manuscript from 1558
(these are the arms of the Burgrave of Veurne, not the city)
The arms by Hozier, 1696
The arms in the Koffie Hag/Café Hag albums +/- 1930
The arms on a police badge (source)
The arms on a Roulertas Confiserie label
The arms on a cover from 1969
The arms in the city (source)
The arms on a glass-stained panel
The arms on the city hall of Brugge

Literature: Servais, 1955

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