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Shield of Catalonia
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In field of gold four gules sticks. Of bell king's crown.
This blasonamiento is known heraldically as the Four Sticks and more popularly as the Four Bars (Quatre Sweeps).Any documental reference has not been documented up to the 1150 appearing like shield preheráldico in Ramón's stamp Berenguer IV, although the scarce clarity of the stamp, and its monocromÃa, they make doubtful the attribution, because the shield palado and reflective blocado the defensive habitual reinforcements of the shields of half-filled of the XII century, for that that this it would not be a lineage sign, but the almond-shaped mere shield of charts that symbolized the real power. The first testimony insurance is the stamps of Alfonso's chancellery II, dated starting from 1167.Es false the test of their linking to the count house from Barcelona in a sarcophagus of 1082 of Ramón Berenguer II where 15 sticks of gold and gules appear, what has taken to think to some heraldistas (Fluvià ) that this it is the origin of the four bars; but it cannot be a test of the antiquity of the emblem associated to the count lineage since this it is a decoration impostada with reason of their transfer in 1385 to the interior of the Cathedral of Gerona for initiative of Pedro IV of Aragon, therefore, the mentioned painting would be later 300 years, since in its original location to the bleakness during three centuries is impossible that the sarcophagus conserved the painting of the XI century, like it demonstrates Alberto convincingly Montaner Fruits in The sign of the king from Aragon: history and meaning (1995).
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