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Belgische Gemeentewapens - Armories communales de Belgique
Belgian Civic Heraldry

SAINT VITH / SANKT VITH

Province : Liège
Additions : 1976 Crombach, Lommersweiler, Recht, Schoenberg

Origin/meaning :

The arms were granted on July 3, 1925.
The arms show the lion of the family Fauquemont. The Lords of Fauquemont either descended from the Lords of Heinsberg, who used a silver lion on a red shield, or from the Dukes of Limburg, who used a red lion on a silver field. The oldest known use of the double-tailed lion dates from 1342 on a seal form Jean de Fauquemont. The Lords of Fauquemont were lords of Saint Vith already in the 12th century. Later the town was a possession of the Counts of Vianden and the Princes of Oranje-Nassau.
When the arms were granted the lion was officially described as the lion of Fauquemont-Limburg, and shown as the lion of Limburg.

Literature : Servais, 1955


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