Moorish Heads

Coats-of-Arms & Flags

Coats-of-Arms: Moorish Head 

 

"Moors—or more frequently their heads, often crowned—appear with some frequency in medieval European heraldry. The term ascribed to them in Anglo-Norman blazon (the language of English heraldry) is maure, though they are also sometimes called mooreblackmoornegro or occasionally savage." [originalpeople.org] Read More

Moor or Saracen Heads in Heraldry [Blog] Click Here

A Moor's head, since the 11th century, is a symbol depicting either the head of a Muslim or a black moor.  [Wikipedia] Read More

Coat of arms of the municipalitie of Avenches

Town hall in Lauingen, a town in the district of Dillingen an der Donau (Bavaria)

-the German city of Coburg

-the German city of Coburg

Image 25 from Coat of arms book - BSB Cod.icon. 310

The funeral procession of Charles V

Canning bookplate

Palace shields the Delegation of the Kingdom of Aragon.

Blackheads Society Bench Barrier Decor

Family coat of arms Mohr von Zernez (noble registry office in Graubünden) Blazon

Page out of the Armorial Gelre. Folio 62r de l'Armorial de Gelre

Image 175 from Coat of arms book

The Coat of Arms of John Hullock

Blason de familles de Champagne in De Caumartin

Coat of arms of the city of Niedermorschwihr (68)