I was wondering where and when exactly did lions start being adopted on coat of arms in Medieval Europe. I did my research and here is what I found.
Anjou (1128 / Geoffrey Plantagenet)
León (1134 / Alfonso VII)
Flanders (1158–63 / Philip of Alsace)
Holland (1160–62 / Floris III)
Swabia (1181)...
As some of you may have known, I make flags for mitochondrial haplogroups. I post them both on my blog and on my deviantart.
http://mtdnaflags.blogspot.ca/
http://mtdna.deviantart.com/
Tell me what you think of the flags.
Here are four flags for examples:
for Hap I5
for Hap L (mtMRCA)
for...
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