The FitzAlan Arms

Following the Norman conquest of England after 1066, the arms of the House of Normandy were adopted in England. The coat of arms consists of two golden lions (or leopards) on a crimson field. With the succession of King Henry II of the House of Plantagenet in 1158, the first known arms of a truly English monarch consisted of a single golden lion on a crimson field. The FitzAlan family, who held the Duchy of Norfolk and the Earldom of Arundel, also also addopted this coat of arms as their own as well.