Order of Montesa, emblem

Order of Chivalry of Saint Mary of Montesa and Saint George of Alfama.

A cross of Montesa.

Una cruz de Montesa.

Interpretation of the emblem of the order with: its cross outlined in Sable, illuminated in Gules; and a highly hammered metal finish.

The Royal Council of the Orders of Chivalry of Santiago, Calatrava, Alcantara, and Montesa, in its historical review of the founding of the Order of Montesa, states that it was created in 1317, at the request of James II, King of Aragon, through a bull issued by Pope John XXII.

Emblem

About the emblem of the Order of Chivalry of Montesa [Avilés, J.; 1780b; treatise IV, chapter VI, page 342, figure 103], it states that «the Ensign of the Knights of Montesa is a plain red Cross», gules, «plain, which they wear on their Capitular Mantles, or hanging from a red ribbon on the chest over a gold oval; that is, on a field of gold a plain cross of gules (different from how the Masters wore it)» and, therefore, it describes the first emblem of the Order of Montesa and not the one they wear now, which is that same plain cross of gules charged on a cross like that of the Order of Calatrava or like that of the Order of Alcantara, but in Sable instead of Gules or Vert.

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Blazon keywords: Cross of Montesa, Cross couped and Cross.

Style keywords: Illuminated, Outlined in sable and Soft metal.

Classification: Interpreted, Religious, Military and Emblem.

Bearer: Montesa, Order of.

Coat of arms of the Armored Cavalry Regiment Montesa No. 3, RCAC-3, in 2016.

Or, a cross of Montesa.

Escudo de oro, una cruz de Montesa.

Coat of arms interpreted as follows: the shape of the shield is a semi-circular arch; the field has been illuminated in metal Or; the cross of Montesa is outlined in Sable and illuminated in Gules and Sable; and the whole has a raised line finish.

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Blazon keywords: Without divisions, Or, Cross of Montesa, Cross couped and Cross.

Style keywords: Semi-circular, Illuminated, Outlined in sable and Freehand.

Classification: Interpreted, Military, Army and Navy and Coat of arms.

Bearer: Montesa, Cavalry Regiment.

In this sign, you shall conquer.

Argent, a cross of Montesa. Crest: A closed royal crown Or, with eight arches, visible five. Motto: «In hoc signo vinces».

Escudo de oro, una cruz de Montesa. Timbrado de una corona real cerrada. Lema: «In hoc signo vinces».

Coat of arms interpreted as follows: the shape of the shield is a semi-circular arch; the field has been illuminated in metal Or; the cross of Montesa is outlined in Sable and illuminated in Sable and Gules; the royal crown is closed, outlined in Sable and illuminated the metal in Or, the pearls in Argent, the orb in Azure and Or, the gemstones in Gules and Vert, the inner cloth in Gules, and the visible hollow at its base in Sable; and the whole has a slightly beaten metal finish.

Regimental Motto

The Latin motto «In hoc signo vinces» is translated as «In this sign, you shall conquer».

Globus cruciger ~ Orb

It is called orb ~ «globus cruciger», the first in Spanish and the second in Latin, referring to the part of the royal crown, a jewel, or a jewel itself that recreates the shape of the globe topped with a cross.

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Blazon keywords: Without divisions, Or, Cross of Montesa, Cross couped, Cross, Crest, Closed royal crown, Crown and Motto.

Style keywords: Semi-circular, Illuminated, Outlined in sable and Soft metal.

Classification: Interpreted, Military, Army and Navy and Coat of arms.

Bearer: Montesa, Cavalry Regiment.

Claudio Sánchez Albornoz, «La auténtica batalla de Clavijo», Cuadernos de Historia de España, number 9, Buenos Aires, 1948.

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Bibliographical reference of century XX.

Author: Sánchez Albornoz, C..

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There are 2 rhombuses in heraldry: the lozenge and the fusil. I like to represent the lozenge, which is a less elongated rhombus than the fusil, as a square with its 2 diagonals placed one vertically and the other horizontally. Lozengy and fusilly consist of filling the entire space with lozenges, in the first case, or with fusils, in the second case, joined 4 by 4 at their corners.

[Avilés, J.; 1780a; page 25] writes «Fusils, Lozenges, and Mascles can be accolados, when they touch with their flanks; and to be so called, the entire Shield must not be filled with these figures, because in that case it would be called Fusilly, or Fuselado and Lozengy.».

In this case, two lozengy schemata of lozenges are presented with their 4 angles at 90^o, the first 5 wide by 6 high, which is exact because the angles are 90^o and it matches the 5x6 dimensions of the coat of arms and the second 6 wide by 7 high, which may be more suitable for shields that resemble the structure of per pale of three.

In [Cadenas y Vicent, V. de; 1987] one can see written both «losange» with «g» and «losanje» with «j», although the occurrences of «losange» with «g» are more than double those of «losanje» with «j».

In [Royal Spanish Academy; 2014] only the term «losange» with «g» is recorded, it says it comes from the French «losange» and defines it as «a rhombus figure placed so that one of the acute angles is at the base and its opposite at the top.».

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Blazon keywords: Lozengy and Lozenge.

Style keywords: Semi-circular.

Classification: Schema.

Comparison between lozengy of 5x6 lozenges and 6x7 lozenges based on the coats of arms of Thomas de Warbrentone and of Pierre de Forcade. It can be observed that, for example, in the case where there is a central pale of Gules, this fits better over the metal Or in the lozengy of smaller lozenges, the 6x7 one, than in the lozengy of larger lozenges, the 5x6 one.

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Blazon keywords: Lozengy and Lozenge.

Style keywords: Semi-circular.

Classification: Schema.

The schema represents a lozengy of 6x5 lozenges in the shape of a rhombus, which is exact, and a fusilly of 6x3 fusils, rhombuses more elongated than the lozenge, which is also exact.

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Blazon keywords: Lozengy, Lozenge, Fusilly and Fusil.

Style keywords: Semi-circular.

Classification: Schema.

Thomas de Warbleton ~ Thomas de Warbrentone.

Lozengy Or and Azure.

Escudo losanjado oro y azur.

Coat of arms interpreted with: the semicircular base shape; the field of plain metal Or; the lozenges illuminated in Azure, outlined in Sable and with their 4 angles at 90^o; the lozengy of proportion 5 x 6; and the whole with a raised-stroke effect.

Can be found in [Heralds' Roll, T.; 1280; shield number 647], in [St. George's Roll; 1285; shield number 245] and in [Charles' Roll; 1285; shield number 360].

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Blazon keywords: Lozengy, Or and Azure.

Style keywords: Semi-circular, Illuminated, Outlined in sable and Freehand.

Classification: Interpreted and Personal.

Bearer: Warbrentone, Thomas de.

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