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Variant Coat of Arms[edit]

I have found a reference[1] to a very different blazon for Roussillon which I think is worth mentioning: De plata, dos fajas de azur, cargadas cada una, de tres flores de lis de oro (Or in English (my translation, sorry for the mistakes): Argent, two fesses Azure, each charged with three fleurs-de-lys Or.). At first, I thought these arms pertained to a "Roussillon" or "Rosselló" family — a name quite common here in (French) Catalonia — or were late, attributed arms with French connotations (the three fleurs-de-lys on a blue background). But I recently saw them displayed inside the Mairie de Perpignan next to the traditional Aragonese arms, and also on the tomb[2][3] of King James II of Majorca, Count of Roussillon and Cerdanya, Lord of Montpellier, inside the Cathedral of Palma de Mallorca which he founded and where they seem to represent only the county of Roussillon without Cerdanya... Therefore, I think they should appear here but I have neither the time nor the skills necessary to draw them myself. Anyone interested?