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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 4062978, member: 2844"]Fleur-de-lys are pretty generic in parts of Europe, and would have been used as such in the colonies as well.</p><p>Below is the crest of one of my Dutch ancestral families, this one was already used in the late Middle Ages:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]328512[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>In the region they were from, east of the town of Utrecht, central Netherlands, many families had fleur-de-lys' in their family crest.</p><p><br /></p><p>Btw, technically speaking, the fleur-de-lys isn't a lily, but an iris. The French fleur-de-lys' are said to have been inspired by the many irises of the beautiful Leie region of Flanders. Leie=lys.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 4062978, member: 2844"]Fleur-de-lys are pretty generic in parts of Europe, and would have been used as such in the colonies as well. Below is the crest of one of my Dutch ancestral families, this one was already used in the late Middle Ages: [ATTACH=full]328512[/ATTACH] In the region they were from, east of the town of Utrecht, central Netherlands, many families had fleur-de-lys' in their family crest. Btw, technically speaking, the fleur-de-lys isn't a lily, but an iris. The French fleur-de-lys' are said to have been inspired by the many irises of the beautiful Leie region of Flanders. Leie=lys.:)[/QUOTE]
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