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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 129763, member: 112&quot;]It&#039;s close, but not quite the same. Here is a link to the various Habsburg arms - <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Wappen_r%C3%B6m.kaiser.JPG" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Wappen_r%C3%B6m.kaiser.JPG" rel="nofollow">HERE</a> The Habsburg Lion faces right while the Flanders lion faces left.</p><p><br /></p><p>In later years the area did come under the rule of the Habsburgs. And no doubt, due to familial ties of the European Royals, the arms of various nations &amp; states were quite often very similar to one another. And with marriage and inheritance the arms were often transferred from family to another.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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