Bat (heraldry)

As an emblem of the bat in heraldry is in eastern Spanish coat of arms more widespread than in the rest of European Heraldry.

As a common figure it replaced in the Aragonese heraldry the dragon and is already known on coats of arms in the Middle Ages to 1200. To find the bat in the coat of arms of Valencia, Teruel, Albacete and Palma.

Your presentation is mainly black with outstretched flight membranes, the stylization is limited to the silhouette. In the coat of arms of Montchauvet ( Yvelines) in France it is. In gold and in the arms of Fiefbergen in Schleswig-Holstein in Silver The position is generally facing the viewer. In coats of arms and also on the coat of arms you meet to the animal. In the Spanish coat of arms she sits on or hovering over them, sometimes under, the coat of arms crown. In the older emblem of Barcelona a bat hovering in the upper crest, but has been removed for unknown reasons.

Also, as a symbol of the bat can be found. Example of the coat of arms similar signs of Albacete Balompié, a Spanish football club. Here the emblem forms the support for the club sign.

Examples

Montchauvet

Fiefbergen

Barcelona