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Description: Arms of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. Blazon: Quarterly, I and IV gules, a cross argent, in each quarter five plates; II and III, Or, a lion rampant gules armed and langued Azure gorged with a coronet Or. For augmentation, an inescutcheon charged with the crosses of St. George, St. Andrew, and St. Patrick combined, being the union badge of the United Kingdom.
Title: Arms of the Duke of Wellington
Credit: Description from: Brooke-Little, J.P., FSA (1978) [1950] Boutell's Heraldry (Revised Edition ed.), London: Frederick Warne LTD, pp. p. 127 ISBN: 0-7232-2096-4. and www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Wellington, Duke of (UK, 1814). History of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment . Königlich britisches Herzogsdiplom 1814 für Arthur Wellesley (* 1769, 1852) [1]
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