addition of a gold label on the shield for differencing. In the greater arms, the supporters also do not carry flags. The coat of arms of Henry V, Count of Luxembourg (1216–1281) Henry V was the first Count of Luxembourg to adopt these arms (the "Lion of Luxemburg"). His father, Waleran III, Duke of Limburg, bore the arms Argent, a lion rampant queue fourchée gules armed langued and crowned or (white field bearing a red double tailed lion with yellow claws, teeth, tongue and crown), generally known as the "Lion of Limburg". Henry V replaced the field argent (white) with barry argent and azure (a series of alternate white and blue bars, numbering 8 or 10), to difference his arms from his half-brother Henry IV, Duke of Limburg. It is uncertain what was the origin of this field barry argent and azure. Jean-Claude Loutsch, Luxembourg's most prominent heraldist, suggested the theory that the original Luxembourg dynasties may have born a barry banner (colours unknown). Two dynasties closely related to the first Houses of Luxembourg also adopted barry coats of arms during this period, namely the Counts of Loon and the Counts of Grandpré bore the arms Barry of ten or and gules (10 yellow and red alternating bars). In such a case, the choice of colour of the bars would have been selected to match the white field and red lion of Limburg. The coat of arms of Henry VI, Count of Luxembourg (1240-1288) In 1282, after the death of Waleran IV of Limburg, Henry VI, count of Luxembourg changed his arms by doubling the lion's tail and passing it in saltire as a claim on the duchy of Limburg. After Henry VI's death in 1288 at the Battle of Worringen, Henry VII readopted his grandfather Henry V's arms, which remained in use until the extinction of the House of Luxembourg. Lusignan and Stratford The Luxembourg Coat of Arms bears a striking similarity to both the arms of Lusignan and of Stratford. The relationship is unknown, if indeed any exists at all although the link between the Lusignan and Luxembourg coat-of-arms is provided in 'Le Roman de Mélusine' by Couldrette whereby a descendant of the legendary founder and faerie queen of Lusignan adopts the burely of 10 argent and azure, adding the lion rampant due to his similarly shaped birthmark. Historians have generated various theories as to the connection between