. Lacunar basilicae Sancti Macarii, aberdonensis: the heraldic ceiling of the cathedral church of St. Machar, old Aberdeen. 36il]Jiuuizum3li^Bi^. IV [4]. ^^0 ^igTiinmt 1 NDw oiaa • cokiTHiii REGAL SERIES. 89 III. The King of Spain. [No. 3. Quarterly: first and fourth Argent, a lion rampant gules, Leon; second and third Gules, a castle triple towered or, windows and ports sable, Castile. The windows and ports ought to be azure. The lion is borne crowned or by modern usage. At the time of the construction of the ceiling, and for at leasttwo centuries before that date, the order of marshalling wa
. Lacunar basilicae Sancti Macarii, aberdonensis: the heraldic ceiling of the cathedral church of St. Machar, old Aberdeen. 36il]Jiuuizum3li^Bi^. IV [4]. ^^0 ^igTiinmt 1 NDw oiaa • cokiTHiii REGAL SERIES. 89 III. The King of Spain. [No. 3. Quarterly: first and fourth Argent, a lion rampant gules, Leon; second and third Gules, a castle triple towered or, windows and ports sable, Castile. The windows and ports ought to be azure. The lion is borne crowned or by modern usage. At the time of the construction of the ceiling, and for at leasttwo centuries before that date, the order of marshalling was, first andfourth Castile, second and third Leon. They so appear on the tombof Eleanor of Castile, first Queen of Edward I., in Westminster Abbey,and Willement says: They are remarkable as the earliest example,in England, of two coats quartered in the same shield (p. 13). The kingdoms were united in 1217, in the person of FerdinandIII., who was King of Leon in right of his father, and of Castile inright of his mother. He gave precedence to the maternal kingdom onaccount of its greater antiquity. Because it was the ancientestkingdom (Nisbet, Ess
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