History of the flag of the United States of America : and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals, and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations . res, adopted various ensigns for recognizance on the field ofbattle. These standards, banneroUs, and streamers exhibited suggestivefigures and rebuses for rallying the troops; and these mottoes or war-cries from that time became surnames, and, with the devices, Avereexhibited on the crests of helmets and on various parts of the
History of the flag of the United States of America : and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals, and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations . res, adopted various ensigns for recognizance on the field ofbattle. These standards, banneroUs, and streamers exhibited suggestivefigures and rebuses for rallying the troops; and these mottoes or war-cries from that time became surnames, and, with the devices, Avereexhibited on the crests of helmets and on various parts of the this century, the Oriental armorial bearings adopted by the na-tions of Western Europe were only worn by kings, princes, dukes, andmarquises, or displayed upon the fortified gates of cities. On thereturn of the first crusaders they were introduced and propagatedamong the nobility, clergy, and gentry, who called them family originated the modern system of heraldry. Stephen of Blois, grandson of WiUiam the Conqueror by hisdaughter Adel, 1135-1154, adopted for his banner the sagittary, anemblem of hunting, and the ensign of the city of Blois, whence hederived his title of Count of Blois. llG nil: s^. srAM>Ai;i>s. .\m» \m;i:s. .1- or Henry II., 1154-118*.», surnaiiiod The rianlai^enet, succeeded Ste-phen, and adopted the green l>ruoni, or riantc Gnut (II portoit viujG-cnnclt cntre deux Plantcs dc Gcncstc), fur his device. The .sur-name came from his father, Geoffrey, Countof Anjou, who, having committed a crime,punished himself by flagellation with birchesof green broom, and wore a branch of it onhis helmet in sign of his humility and pen-ance. Henry II. married Eleanor of Guy-enne, who brouglit him the duchy of thatname. Tlie arms of Bordeaux, its ca])ital,having a golden lion, that charge was mar-shalled with the two leopards on the es-cutcheon of England. From tlie conquestof Ireland by Henry 11., 1172, up to Henry\I1I., the kings of E
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