Talk:Belinus

Trivia

In the dialect of Genoa, "Belino", as Belinus is known in Italian, means "dick".

I don't think this trivia fits into the page, but it's worth mentioning at least in this discussion page, I think. --Lo'oris 01:06, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Dates

There's no date in this whole article. Needs a century in the first intro para if specific dates for events not known. We have 'nater ...' but nothing to reference it. PetePassword (talk) 12:08, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

Indeed. I've removed the relevant categories. Ghmyrtle (talk) 14:33, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Other attributed arms

• Fragment of a tapestry in Winchester College (the Tudor Rose tapestries, three gold crowns on a blue field, which are also suggested might depict the arms of King Arthur, for his namesake, Henry VII's heir)
• Tres Coronas aur at as per palum, in Campo azureo
• Thomas Dingley's History from Marble contains a B&W sketch and the following text: "Arms viz the Field Jupiter [Azure] three Crowns in Pale Sol [Or], for that he being King of Britany, having conquered France, Almaign, all Italy, and the city of Rome, together with all Greece, he returned into this Land and assumed unto himself these new Armes as Upton reporteth, (Viz) Tres Coronas auratas in campo Azoreo, quia ipse fuerat terna vice in diversis Regnis coronatus, Three Crowns or, in a field azure, because he was three times crown'd King in sundry Kingdomes! This kind of Crown is now held proper to such a King as oweth homage or fealty to some other king as to his superior In which respect some call it Crown Homager"; original MS in Bod
• William Barrett's The History and Antiquities of the City of Bristol (1789) says "On each side of the arched gateway south are the two figures of Bellinus and Brennus, two British kings of uncommon prowess and success in war, if we believe the fabulous Geoffrey of Monmouth, with their coat armour, an escutcheon with a portcullis over one, and a flower de lis or. over the other"

--Yodin^T 18:43, 11 September 2024 (UTC)