MECKLENBURG-SCHWERIN, Grand Duchy of.

MECKLENBURG-SCHWERIN, Grand Duchy of. Quarterly: i, or, a bull's head and neck erased sable, langued gules, armed argent, and crowned of the field (Mecklenburg) ; 2, azure, a griffin or (Rostock) ; 3, per fesse in chief azure a griffin or, in base vert, a bordure argent (Schwerin) ; 4, gules, a cross couped argent, crowned or (Ratzeburg) ; 5, gules, a lady's dexter arm embowed issuing from the sinister side of the holding in the hand a ring (Stargard) ; 6, or, a bull's head caboshed sable, langued gules, armed argent, crowned of the field (Wenden), over all on an inescutcheon the arms of Schwerin, viz., per fess gules and or. Crests — I, out of a crown five pales conjoined sable or, gules, argent and azure, and issuing therefrom a plume of peacock feathers, and lying between th feathers and the pales an escutcheon of Mecklenburg ; 2, out of a crown or, two horns per fesse of the last and gules (Schwerin) ; 3, out of a crown or, two wings, the one gold, the other azure (Rostock); 4, out of a crown a demi-griffin or (Schwerin); S, out of a crown seven banners gules (Ratzeburg). Supporters — (Dexter) a bull sable, armed argent ; (sinister) a griffin or. Motto — " Per aspera ad astra."

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