Meanings
plural crancelins
- governmentA chaplet of rue, as used as a charge on the arms of Saxony.
The crancelin, running from upper left to bottom right, took the form of a crenellated garland in deep green.
2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 5652 more examples
A chaplet of rue, sometimes called a crancelin, is blazoned bend-wise in the shield of Saxony – Barry often or and sa., over all a chaplet of rue vert.
1914, Charles Boutel, AC Fox-Davies, The Handbook to English Heraldry, page 151His arms show the crancelin of Saxony impaled with the crossed swords of the Marshalcy of the Empire which went with the Saxon Electorate.
1991, Jiří Louda, Michael Maclagan, Lines of Succession, page 204
Origin
- GermanKränzlein“small garland”
- Frenchcrancelin
- Englishcrancelin
From French crancelin, from German Kränzlein (“small garland”).
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