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The coat of arms of the Washington family was first used to identify the family in the twelfth century, when the Washington family took possession of Washington Old Hall in County Durham, England. This coat of arms are the ones that were used by George Washington, President of the United States of America from 1789 to 1797. John Wessington (also Washington) (died 1451) was an English Benedictine who became prior of Durham Abbey. The design (three red stars over two horizontal red bars on a white field) is often said to have inspired the Stars and Stripes flag, and has been used since 1938 as the coat of arms and flag of the District of Columbia. It is also found on the Purple Heart. The notion that it inspired the design of the American flag dates to the celebratory and patriotic climate of the year 1876, which saw the publication of ''Washington: A Drama in Five Acts'', a drama in verse by the popular English poet Martin Farquhar Tupper. In it, Benjamin Franklin proclaims that the design of the Stars and Stripes was based on the coat of arms of George Washington. "We, and not he—it was unknown to him," Franklin says, "took up his coat of arms, and multiplied and magnified it every way to this, our glorious national banner." The play was widely performed, and its message resonated with the American public. The story was repeated many times, including regularly in the popular children's magazine ''St. Nicholas''. Undeniably the coat of arms does consist of two elements, the stars and the stripes, and a red and white coloration, but it lacks any blue coloration. ==Description== The simple blazon is: :"Argent two bars Gules, in chief three mullets of the second."〔The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, Comprising a Registry of Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time, Sir Bernard BURKE, Harrison, London, 1884, P 1080〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Coat of arms of the Washington family」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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