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Armiger
  
Felipe VI

Crest
  
Spanish Royal Crown

Adopted
  
19 June 2014

Earlier versions
  
See below

Coat of arms of the King of Spain

Escutcheon
  
Quarterly: Castile, León, Aragon, and Navarre; enté en point: Granada; inescutcheon Bourbon (Anjou Branch)

Orders
  
Order of the Golden Fleece

The blazoning of the coat of arms of the King of Spain is regulated by the Royal Decree 527/2014, 20 June, an amendment to Title II of Spanish Royal Decree 1511/1977 adopting Flags, Standards, Guidons, Insignia and Emblems Regulation. The coat of arms was adopted when King Felipe VI was enthroned as King of Spain.

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Official blazon

The shield is divided into four quarters, blazoned as follows:

  • 1st, gules a castle or, triple-embattled and voided gate and windows, with three towers each triple-turreted, of the field, masoned sable and ajoure azure, which is for Castile;
  • 2nd, argent a lion rampant purpure crowned or, langued and armed, of the second, which is for León;
  • 3rd, or, four pallets gules, which is for Aragon;
  • 4th, gules a cross, saltire and orle of chains linked together or, a centre point vert, which is for Navarre;

    • Argent enté en point, with a pomegranate proper seeded gules, supported, sculpted and leafed in two leaves vert, which is for Granada.

    Inescutcheon azure bordure gules, three fleurs-de-lys or, which is for Bourbon-Anjou.

    All surrounded by the collar of the Golden Fleece and crowned with a crown of the same metal and precious stones, with eight rosettes, five visible, and eight pearls interspersed, closed at the top by eight diadems also adorned with pearls and surmounted by a cross on a globe, which is the royal crown of Spain.

    In 1969, General Francisco Franco appointed Juan Carlos I as his "successor to the Headship of the Spanish state with the title of King" but gave him the new title of Prince of Spain instead of the traditional title of Prince of Asturias. From 1971 to 1975, Juan Carlos as Prince of Spain used a coat of arms which was virtually identical to the one later adopted when he became King in 1975. Earlier coat of arms differed only that it featured the royal crown of a Crown Prince of Spain, the King's royal crown has eight half-arches of which five are visible, while the Prince's one has only four half-arches of which three are visible. Joined to the shield was the red saltire of Burgundy and, to the dexter and sinister of the base point, the yoke gules in its natural position with ribbons, of the field, and the sheaf of five arrows gules with the arrowheads inverted and ribbons, of the field, which used to be the symbol of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain.

    Since June 2014, Juan Carlos's son, Felipe VI, has been using the same arms but without the cross of Burgundy, yoke and arrows. King Juan Carlos's arms include a red lion instead of the purple one displayed on the current version

    Ornamented versions of the historical royal coats of arms

    For common versions and the changes of the heraldic charges and the divisions of the field, see Coat of arms of Spain.

    References

    Coat of arms of the King of Spain Wikipedia
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