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Belgische Gemeentewapens - Armories communales de Belgique Belgian Civic Heraldry TERVUREN Province : Vlaams Brabant Additions : 1976 Duisburg, Vossem Origin/meaning : The arms were granted on May 29, 1838. The arms show a crowned lion, which already appeared on the oldest known seals of the city, dating from 1312. The lion most likely originally was the lion of Brabant, even though this lion was not normally crowned. In 1435 the city became a possession of Jan Hinckaert, illegitimate son of the Duke of Brabant. His arms were shown on a paining from 1480, and showed a quartered shield with in the first and fourth quarter a silver crowned lion on a black field with silver billets, and in the second and third quarter the Hinckaert arms, a blue crowned lion. Why the council in the 1830s applied only for the Hinckaert arms is not known. Literature : Servais, 1955

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