fjt_04547 - PAYS BAS ESPAGNOLS - TOURNAI - PHILIPPE II D'ESPAGNE Prévots et Jurés de Tournai 1560

SPANISH NETHERLANDS - TOURNAI - PHILIP II OF SPAIN

(1555-1598)

On some Tournai shields, we have the small Portuguese shield on the obverse and, on the reverse, we have a quartered Spanish shield: 1 counter-quartered from Castile and Leon, enté en pointe from Granada, 2 part from Aragon and from Sicily, over the whole of Portugal, to 3 from modern Austria supported by ancient Burgundy, to 4 from modern Burgundy supported by Brabant; over the whole of Flanders, part of Tyrol.