Crancelin (or "crown of rue") is a

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, usually seen in the bend on a shield. It depicts a band of a stylized

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leaves, representing a branch of common rue (''Ruta graveolens''). It can be found in the

coat of arms of Saxony The coat of arms of the present-day German free state of Saxony shows a tenfold horizontally-partitioned ('' Barry of ten'') field of black (''sable'') and gold/yellow ('' or'') stripes,

. Legend has it that at the investiture of

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, Count of Anhalt and Ballenstedt, as

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, the then emperor,

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, took the chaplet of rue he was wearing and placed it over the corner of Bernhard's shield. To commemorate this act, the ''crancelin vert'' was added to the

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arms (''barry sable and or'').Karl Peter Lepsius: ''Kleine Schriften, Beiträge zur thüringisch-sächsischen Geschichte und deutschen Kunst und Alterthumskunde'' Dritter Band, Creutz, Magdeburg (1855)
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) The

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of 1751 defined it as a "portion of a crown placed in bend across a shield".D’Alembert, Diderot L’Encyclopédie, 1re éd, 1751 (Tome 4, p. 430): "portion d’une couronne posée en bande à-travers l’éc

/ref> The French word is from the German ''Kränzlein''Parker, James, Glossary of terms used in heraldry, 18

("little garland / wreathlet"). The bearing is sometimes called "a ducal coronet in bend" or "a bend archy coronetty".Parker, James, Glossary of terms used in heraldry, 1894 It is known in German as ''Rautenkranz'' ("garland / wreath of rue"Johann Ebers, New And Complete Dictionary Of The German And English, Volume 2, Leipzig, 17

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