Coat of arms of Linköping
Linköping’s arms show a gold lion’s face on blue; the town’s 1946 blazon specifies red armament.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I blått fält ett lejonansikte av guld med beväring av guld.
This is the Swedish description in the Heraldica record. How it was composed and whether it is an official blazon have not been independently verified here. The editorial text below is based on the linked municipal source.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- (1300): Used as a seal as of
- 1 March 1946: Royal confirmation on
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their blazon
The municipality says the oldest surviving seal is attached to a parchment dated 1 August 1300 and already shows the same lion’s face. Its 1946 town blazon specifies red armament.
Source: Linköpings kommun: Stadsvapen
Background in the municipal sources
The municipality says scholarship has interpreted the seal image as a variation of the Bjälbo dynasty arms. The current Heraldica record instead describes the armament as gold; this difference from the municipal account of the 1946 blazon remains unresolved.
Source: Linköpings kommun: Stadsvapen
Heraldic elements
The heraldic elements are identified using HERO, a heraldry ontology published through Finland's Finto service. It provides structured terminology for describing coats of arms and their components. The list describes the structure of the arms, not the symbolic meaning of its elements.
- escutcheon
- field
- Or
- Azure
- lion's face
- unpartitioned
Sources and image rights
Heraldica / National Archives of Finland · Wikidata
Image licence: CC BY-SA 3.0
Image source and credit: National Archives of Sweden / Vladimir Sagerlund
Original image. The image has been resized and converted to WebP. The derivative retains the original image’s licence.
