Category:Coats of arms of the House of Sforza (lion & quince)

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Basic arms & blazon

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  • Original w:canting arms of the w:House of Sforza, as Counts of w:Cotignola/Codognola, Romagna (Sforza (ancient)): Azure, a lion rampant or armed and langued gules holding with its front paws a branch of quince (codogno) vert fructed or, later used by cadet branches of the family
    Original w:canting arms of the w:House of Sforza, as Counts of w:Cotignola/Codognola, Romagna (Sforza (ancient)): Azure, a lion rampant or armed and langued gules holding with its front paws a branch of quince (codogno) vert fructed or, later used by cadet branches of the family
Italiano: leone rampante innalzante un ramoscello fruttifero di una mela cotogna

Arms as Counts of w:Cotignola, a title granted by Pope John XXIII. Also today the Coat of arms of the commune of w:Cotignola. Canting element: Quince = mela cotogna (Italian) = codogno (Venetian), from Latin cotoneum, from Greek κυδώνιον ("kudonion") (WordSense Online Dictionary (15th May, 2024) URL: https://www.wordsense.eu/codogno/). Pope John XXIII made w:Muzio Attendolo Sforza conte de Codognola, the place of Attendolo's birth. "Muzio attendolo da Cotignola, capostipite degli Sforza". (Source: Maspoli, Carlo, Arme e imprese viscontee sforzesche Ms. Trivulziano n. 1390, Archivio araldico svizzero : Archivum heraldicum, Band (Jahr): 111 (1997) [1])

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