Coat of Arms of Berne, from the <i>Berner Chronik</i> of Michael Stettler, 1620. At this time, Berne still considered itself part of the Holy Roman Empire, thus adding the Imperial Eagle to its own coat of arms. The combination was called the <i>Bern-Rych</i>.
Michael Stettler
1620
Scanned from <i>Peter Meyer (ed.), Berner - deine Geschichte, Büchler Verlag, Bern 1981, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/3-7170-0185-X" title="Special:BookSources/3-7170-0185-X">ISBN 3-7170-0185-X</a>,</i> p. 129.