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The czech double-tailed lion

In its present-day appearance, the national emblem of the Czech Republic is the outcome of a fairly eventful evolution, the beginnings of which go back to the twelfth or thirteenth centuries. To quote a mediaeval Czech chronicler known under the name of Dalimil, in the year 1158, Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa bestowed on Czech Prince Vladislav II, in appreciation of the latter's military assistance in the anti-Milan campaign, the title of king and, as a substitute for the emblem of an eagle, armorial bearings with a silver lion in a field of red.

However, the first truly documented lion as a symbol of the ruling dynasty of Premysl is documented from as late as 1213 on an equestrian seal of the Moravian Margrave Vladislav Jindrich (Henry). Hence, the first version was more like a coat of arms of the Premysl dynasty while the so called St. Wenceslaus eagle remained the country's symbol. As the rulers of those times strove to consolidate their position, they also laid stress on the priority use of their armorial bearings. This accounts for the fact that the silver lion in a field of red gradually developed into a symbol of not only the dynasty but of the country as a whole, and that it retained this function until 1918.

With the independent Republic of Czechoslovakia coming into existence in October 1918, the need arose to have a new sovereign national emblem designed to represent the new constitutional situation but also the newly established state entity's continuity with the history of the Czech Lands.

In the 2008, when we have sent this royal double-tailed lion, it was 850 years from the appointment of king of Bohemia and 90 years from the establishing of independent Czechoslovakia state.