Attributed coat of arms of King Edward the Confessor (who lived before standardized coats of arms came into use) by Matthew Paris, based on a design on Edward's coins. <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Standard_of_Westminster_Abbey.svg" class="image"><img alt="Standard of Westminster Abbey.svg" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Standard_of_Westminster_Abbey.svg/486px-Standard_of_Westminster_Abbey.svg.png" decoding="async" width="486" height="390" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Standard_of_Westminster_Abbey.svg/729px-Standard_of_Westminster_Abbey.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Standard_of_Westminster_Abbey.svg/972px-Standard_of_Westminster_Abbey.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="486" data-file-height="390"></a>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Matthew_Paris" class="extiw" title="w:en:Matthew Paris"><span title="medieval English chronicler and artist (c.1200-1259)">Matthew Paris</span></a>
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circa 1255 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P,+1255-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
Historia Anglorum