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This symbol is the Syrian Hawk, it was adopted during the union with Egypt, and before it, there was the Syrian eagle. Syria Arab Republic logo Http://www. ...
Coats of arms were, for the most part, freely adopted by individuals at some point in the Middle Ages or later.
One broad category of arms for which the meaning is easy to guess is that of canting arms (armes parlantes): those are arms for which the blazon (the verbal description) offers a pun on the name of the family.
Another category of examples concerns augmentations, that is, additions to a coat of arms either granted by a sovereign or adopted by a bearer to publicize his allegiance to an individual or cause.
This coat of arms is accentuated, by a crown with an ornament of flowers.
On the left there is the coat of arms of Jean de Lastic, Grandmaster of the Order of the Hospitallers in Rhodes in 1427; section one and four contain single crosses, the coat of arms of the order and in section two and three there are horizontal bars as his personal coat of arms.
The development of the coat of arms was terminated by James I., who acquired the likewise honorary title of a King of Armenia in 1393: he replaces the Lusignan lion in the third quarter by the lion of Armenia.
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