Voghera
VOGHERA
Region : Lombardia
Province : Pavia
| Italian |
Partito: al primo a sei fasce alternate convesse di nero e d'argento; al secondo di rosso, capo abbassato d'oro all'aquila di nero ad ali spiegate, accorciata, coronata. (Capo del Littorio). Sormonato da una corona marchionale ed il motto: "Signo Sacrati Imperi Durabit Viqueria Tempore. |
| English | blazon wanted |
Origin/meaning
The arms were officially granted on September 27, 1938.
Traditionally, as described by the historian Count Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani (post 1871), the imperial eagle was granted by the Emperor Frederick I "Barbarossa" to the city of Voghera, during the Diet of Roncaglia of 15 December 1154, for the loyalty shown and for having hosted the troops during the siege of Tortona.
On the same occasion, the motto was also assumed which, complete, reads: Signo Sacrati Imperii Durabit Viqueria tempore longo si scietivere cauta ("Under the symbol of the Holy Empire Voghera will last a long time, if it knows how to live with caution"), which later it will be abbreviated to "Signo Sacrati Imperii durabit Viqueria tempore" ("Under the symbol of the Holy Empire Voghera will last").
Unfortunately the arms have to assumed later, as no civic heraldry was used in the 12th century. The arms were definitely used in the 15th century.
By decree of 19 January 1608, Philip III, King of Spain and Duke of Milan, elevates the County of Voghera to a Marquisate and granted as a fiefdom to Don Petrus Enriquez Azevedo, Count of Fuentes. In that period the Voghera coat of arms would have assumed the oval shape, and the complex baroque “cartoccio” frame, surmounted by a marquis crown. From 1612 the feud of Voghera passed to the jurisdiction of the Del Pozzo, counts of Ponderano, to whom it remained for 158 years.
The bars, probably originally red, were rectilinear, but took on the convex shape in the representations of the late sixteenth century, when the "fashion" of the shields provided for them to be convex. In the nineteenth century, in the sketches of the coat of arms, the illustrators tried, in vain, to restore the original form.
The arms were finally officially granted in 1938.
 The arms shown in 1940 |
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Literature : Image provided by Massimo Ghirardi, http://www.araldicacivica.it; Anonymous : 500 Stemmi di comuni Italiani. Milano, 1940; background by Stefano Baccolo.