Dalmatian Coat of Arms and Croatian Flag
Posted April 30th by Braddock Family in Active Holidays, Adriatic Sea, Australia, Boat Building, Croatia, Dalmatia, Dubrovnik, History, Istria, Split, Traditional Boats
The finishing touches are being completed on the leut, including her name been painted on the stern. As mentioned previously her name, Labud – which means ‘swan’ in Croatian – is a reference to the river which runs through Perth. From my parents’ house on the river the Swan Yacht Club can be seen. Its burgee (below) will fly from the Labud‘s rigging.
The swan on the burgee is black (the colour the boat is painted) – since in the antipodes everything is done backwards. Black swans appear on everything in Western Australia – including on the state flag and its coat of arms (both above).
Its only fair that the state symbol for Dalmatia is also flown. The flag and coat of arms above show Dalmatia’s three golden leopards on a their blue background. (Yes the leopards have manes! In medieval heraldry leopards were often shown without spots and with manes – as they were believed to a crossbreed of a lion and a panther). The origins of this symbol are lost – though examples from the 14th Century exist.
The Dalmatian Coat of Arms is included on the Croatian Coat of Arms and flag (above). Its in the middle of the five small symbols above the medieval (maybe even 10th Century) Croatian red and white chequey (šahovnica). Of course the Croatian flag will be the highest flag on the boat since it will be Croatian registered.
The small symbols of the Croatian Coat of Arms are as follows (from left to right):
- The oldest known coat of arms of Croatian rulers- a golden six-pointed star over a silver moon on a blue shield – thought to be pagan symbols. (The crescent moon has nothing to do with Islam as the shield predates the religion).
- The coat of arms of the Dubrovnik Republic – two red stripes on a dark blue shield.
- Dalmatia.
- The coat of arms of Istria – a golden goat with red hooves and horns, on a dark blue shield.
- The 15th Century coat of arms of the northern region of Slavonia – two silver stripes, which represent the Drava and Sava Rivers that form it’s borders, on blue shield , between them, on a red field a black, a running marten (a mongoose-like animal known as a kuna in Croatian) and above a six-pointed, golden star. The pelts of the kuna were used as a early form of early money in Croatia, so the local currency now called the kuna (below)
There will also be an Australian flag somewhere on the boat…
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Edward Alfirevich
October 29th, 2009
I was looking back through the shots on this blog and noticed the comments about the Dalmation coat of arms…
Observations of a British traveler aboard the ‘San Carlo,’ a coasting steamer trading up and down the Dalmatian side of the Adriatic in the year 1875.
Zara is an important place even at the present time. It is the capital of Dalmatia, and the seat of the Archbishop of the province. It is well-built, clean, and tolerably well paved, and well worth a visit. The time, however, allowed by the stay of the steamer is amply sufficient to enable one to see it; but the heat was so great that I felt more inclined to stay on board smoking cigarettes under the awning of the steamer than to go on shore. The prospect of some café a là glace, however, which I knew was to be obtained in the Piazza, added to the more important fact that I was to receive here a letter for the Archimandrite of Montenegro, induced me to shake off my apathy. Having landed on the quay, I passed through the gate over which is sculptured the grim effigy of the Lion of St. Mark, (above) everywhere seen down the Eastern shores of the Adriatic wheresoever the Venetians had established their authority, I proceeded to execute my plans; but the heat was so intense that I was glad to come back to the steamer where I imagined it was something less stifling. But this day was unusually hot and close, and with the exception of one at Cattaro, when the the thermometer registered at four o’clock p.m., 105° Fahrenheit, was the hottest I experienced in all my journey.
Not knowing how to use blogs, i posted this in the wrong place, sorry.
Im a 66yo Australian from Perth living in Croatia restoring my fathers 300 year old house
Moniz
April 14th, 2010
ORIGIN OF THE ARMS OF DALMATIA , NOTT , ARTHUR , CONSTANTINE , TRUE JUDAH
Being that Constantine, the first ruler of the Holy Roman Empire was born in Dalmatia, and both sides of the family were from the ruling tribe of Judah, it is believed this originated the National Coat of Arms as the lion for Dalmatia(see graphic at left). The place of exile of the last ruler of the Holy Roman Empire of the West was also Dalmatia. King Arthur also being highly known and widely accepted as a Dalmatian General of Royal lineage, was of the last Royal defenders of the Holy Roman Empire. In fact all known genealogies of King Arthur include Constantine. It is most accepted that King Arthur’s arms were three golden crowns on a blue shield. The Lion in heraldry is considered one and the same with Kingship, or a crown. In England the crown is understood more than in Dalmatia with the lion. King Arthur would have indeed bore the arms of the 3 lions while representing Dalmatia. Every English King has used Lions, a symbol of Kingship. This is demonstrated as at various times of history that Dalmatia has replaced the uncrowned lions with crowned lions. Thus with all of these facts, the lion and crown are one and the same, or interchangeable.
Linguistics of the house name, as given by the Chief Royal Herold of Westphalia Germany:
The house name is most widely excepted to be from the Danish name “Knut”, it derives from the old Scandinavic name “chnout” which itself derives from old German (linuistic: Altdeutsch) “chnot, chun” which derives from Germanic “chruod” . The meaning is always the same: noble! The German and English words Koenig resp. King are deriving from the same Germanic principal form.