The Three Crowns (Swedish: i tre kronor ) is the national emblem of Sweden, present in the emblem Sweden, and consists of three yellow coronaes or gold plated two above and one below, placed on a blue background.
This symbol is often used as a symbol of official State authority by the Monarchy, the Riksdag, the Swedish Government and by the Swedish embassies around the world, but also appears in other less formal contexts, such as the Swedish national ice hockey team, wearing symbols on their sweaters and hence called "Three Crowns", and above Stockholm City Hall (built 1911-1923). The Three Crowns are also used as a roundel on Swedish Air Force military aircraft and as a mark on Swedish military equipment in general, as well as on uniforms and vehicles of the Swedish Police Authority.
Because of their common Scandinavian origin, the Three Crowns are also featured in the emblem of the Danish empire where they may be referred to as "mark union".
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Origins
One of the few, previous traditional explanations have suggested Albrekt of Mecklenburg (1338-1412), who ruled Sweden 1364-89, carrying symbols from Germany as a sign of his reigns of Sweden, Finland and Mecklenburg. Despite the fact that Finland was not considered a state in its own right at the time, this theory, however, has been disputed by subsequent research, that is, the announcement in 1982 of the invention of a frieze in Avignon in southern France, is estimated to date back to 1336. Frieze painted to an international congress led by the Pope and contains symbols of all participating countries, including Sweden. This discovery shows that the symbol was introduced no later than its predecessor Albrekt, Magnus Eriksson (1316-74).
The use of three crowns as a symbol of the Swedish symbol has been proved, in the Nordisk Familjok, until the end of the 13th century, the first three crowns surrounding the shield of Magnus LadulÃÆ'  ¥ (1240-1290) and later appearing on the coins Magnus Eriksson (1316-1374).
Early Swedish symbol
The first Swedish emblem emblem of the 13th century features a golden lion with a backdrop of blue and white wavy diagonal lines (in blazons, "Argentine and blue wavy bumps, lions Or"). It is still part of the larger Swedish symbol now lined up between the lion's emblem and the three headings. Like lions and crowns that are sometimes reinterpreted as symbols of GÃÆ'¶taland and Svealand provinces, the lion was, incorrectly, called the GÃÆ'¶ta lion.
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The Unity of Magnus Eriksson
Magnus often uses the symbols, perhaps to mark all three of his kingdoms; Sweden, Norway, and Scania. By the middle of the 14th century, the contiguous Danish financial troubles left most of the countries pawned to German princes, especially Gerhard III and John III. Because the Danish king was forced into exile in 1332, the Danish archbishop of Lund called for Magnus to be king of the Scania province of Denmark. Magnus exchanged pawns from John III and was sworn in as king of Scania in the same year. Because he also has ambitions to redeem the rest of Denmark, the crown marks his pride as king of the three realms.
Although Denmark was reinforced under King Valdemar Atterdag in 1340 and regained its territory, and Norway left union with Sweden in 1380, the following Swedish kings continued to use the union symbol with three crowns. An alternative, poorly supported theories suggests that the three crowns are the three kingdoms in the traditional title of the king of Sweden, the king of Sweden, Goth and Wends. (The last two he held in competition with the king of Denmark). The Swedes-Goths-Wends theory may represent a precise 15th century reinterpretation of established symbols.
Kalmar Union
When the Union of Kalmar, a private union between Denmark, Norway and Sweden, was instituted by Queen Margrete I in 1397, the three crown symbols were returned to their use as a symbol of the unity of the three realms. Thus, his successor, Eric of Pomerania, uses a symbol lined up between Danish rifles (three blue lions on golden shields), Norway (golden lion with ax on a red shield) and Sweden (golden lion on blue and white wavy lines) plus a sign of union with three golden crowns on a blue shield, which is also the case for the following union king in the fifteenth century.
Use in post-Kalmar Union Sweden
Because three crowns have been used in Sweden between unions, both King Karl Knutsson Bonde regularly drew Sweden out of the Kalmar Union, and King Gustav Vasa who ended in 1521, using a crown - a card with a lion - as a Swedish symbol, happened to this day. From the fifteenth century, the crown was regarded as Sweden's "chief" weapon and could therefore be used independently as a symbol of a lesser state.
This symbol is known to have been placed on top of the mighty central tower of the Three Crowns castle in Stockholm, which was destroyed by fire in 1697, no later than the early 16th century.
The Three Crowns Conflict
In the 1550s, King Gustav Vasa of Sweden discovered that the Danish King Christian III had added three crowns to his own emblem. Since the three crowns have become Swedish symbols since the 14th century and used by Danish kings only during the Kalmar States, Gustav interprets the use of the Christian symbol III as a sign of the intention to conquer Sweden and revive unity. Christian countered that since the union kings had used three crowns, the symbol was now the property of the two kingdoms and thus had the same right as the king of Sweden to use it.
In Sweden, on the other hand, the Three Crowns are regarded as exclusive Swedish symbols; This led to long-standing diplomatic conflicts between the two countries, called the Three Crowns Conflict with Sweden which accused Denmark of imperialism using Swedish symbols, and Denmark accused Sweden of monopolizing the use of Scandinavian union symbols.
This conflict played a role in the outbreak of the Northern Seven Year War in 1563. In the early seventeenth century, the conflict was resolved with both countries allowed to use the Three Crowns in their emblem, although in Denmark had a less prominent place on the shield, and officially referred to as a reminder which reminds of the former Kalmar Union. Denmark has been doing this exercise since 1546, a practice disputed by Sweden until 1613.
Other uses in Denmark
The name "Tre Kroner", Three Crowns, is also used in Denmark. During the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, the Royal Danish Navy often named its ships after the emblem of the king of the Danish kingdom, and the navy consequently often had a ship called the Three Crowns. This practice in turn lends a name to the Trekroner naval fortress guarding the port of Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. It also names a number of farms, causing a quarter of a new town in Roskilde to take the name "Trekroner" from one of these farms.
Three other crown designs
Some heraldic displays outside Sweden also incorporate triple crown designs. Some of the important points of use are discussed below.
In Central and Eastern Europe arsenal
The historical area of ​​Galicia, now divided between Poland and Ukraine, is under Austro-Hungarian rule as a symbol of a blue shield with three golden crowns as part of the design. The crown is said to represent Lodomeria, a historic province united with Galicia, while Galicia itself is represented by black crows.
In the French and German arsenal
The emblem of Henri III is "Manet ultima coelo" with three crowns.
The island of Saint Barthà © brica, France, The Caribbean was a Swedish colony between 1784 and 1878, and the island's emblem encompassed three crowns as part of the design.
German cities in Otterfing and Tegernsee in Bavaria use three gold crowns with a blue design on their coats.
In the Irish arsenal
Almost identical to the three Swedish crowns, is the flag and arm of Munster Province, a region in south west Ireland. Like the Swedish model, it consists of two crowns above and one below. It represents the three major districts of the province, Desmond, Ormond, and Thomond. The design was used as the Lordship of Ireland flag between 1171-1541 after the Norman Irish invasion until it was replaced by the Irish Empire's flag.
In the British arsenal
The shield of the three gold crowns, placed two above one, on a blue background, has been used by the East Anglia symbol for centuries. The symbols are considered to be medieval to the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of East Anglia and the Wuffingas dynasty that reigns. The flag of the Eastern and Eastern Anglican, Edmund the Martyr consisted of three golden crowns on the blue field ( Azure, three crowns or ), the Eastern Anglican flag as known today proposed by George Henry Langham and adopted during the year 1902 by the London East Anglians Society (founded in 1896). It lays three crowns on a blue shield on St. George's cross.
Three crowns appeared, engraved on stone, on the floor of baptism (c.1400) in Saxmundham parish church, and on the terrace of the 15th-century Woolpit church, both in Suffolk.
The emblem of the three crowns is evident in the local East Anglican symbol; they appear in the arms of Ely diocese and Bury St Edmunds district where the crown is shown stabbed with arrows to represent the martyrdom of Saint Edmund. They are also included in the arms of the former Isle of Ely County Council, the Borough of Colchester and the University of East Anglia.
The design of the three crowns is the epitome of the city of Kingston on Hull, a major port in Yorkshire, but this design sees three vertically stacked crowns and reconnect with Royal charter 1299. This emblem is used by city councils. and two city rugby league teams.
In the literature, the symbol of the legendary king Arthur is also often given as a blue with three crowns or. Indeed, Britain includes three realms, Logres (England), Cambria (Wales) and Alba (Scotland).
The University of Oxford uses as a symbol of three golden crowns in blue accompanied by an open book. The origin of the three crowns is not known for certain but may refer to the arm of Thomas Cranley, the Warden of New College between 1389 and 1396.
Two Anglican dioceses in England use three crown emblems; Ely (gules three coronet ducal two more than one or) and Bristol (three sable crowns arranged pale or, similar to the city of Hull).
The first corporate symbol was awarded in 1439 to the Drapers' Company in London with three triple crowns. The three crowns also form the logo of Coutts, a London-based private banker, but in this case the design consists of one crown at the top, with two below.
In the Scottish arsenal
The Scottish state emblem Clan Grant features three golden crowns, but with a red background. This may be due to the fact that the clan's clan's ancestor was Scandinavian, King Haakon Magnus of Norway. The clan's motto, Stand Fast , also comes from Haakon Magnus. The arms formed the base of the Grantown-on-Spey burgh arm, which was erected on clan land in 1765.
Another Scottish clan who uses three golden crowns in blue as his emblem is the Clan Arthur, or Clan Macarthur.
In the Spanish arsenal
The three golden crowns on the blue design appear on the Burriana country symbol in Spain in the Community of Valencia, but, like Coutts & amp; Co, arranged one on top of two instead of two more than one. The crown here refers to the fact that in 1901, the Regent of the Queen of Spain, Maria Christina of Austria, gave the city the title of the city, and was crowned thrice.
In the modern trading sign
A symbol with three crowns has been used by Chrysler on several New Yorker models in the 1960s. The symbol for the top model of the marque, the crown is lined up behind the vehicle and facing each other in front. During the 1980s and 1990s, the BrÃÆ'¸derbund Software used a symbol-style variant. It is also used on Swedish national ice hockey uniforms
See also
- Oxford University
- Mrs. Svea
- Swedish flag
- Fortress Treker
- Triple Crown
References
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