Rugney

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RUGNEY

Département : Vosges

Official blazon
French	D'argent à la croix de Malte, aux traits arqués, de sable.
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Origin/meaning

The Maltese cross recalls that a commandery of the Templars then of the Order of Malta existed in the Middle Ages (founded in 1173 on the ruins of a castle of the Duke of Lorraine), on the territory of Rugney, in the hamlet of Xugney .