Coat of arms of Scotland
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The coat of arms of Scotland, colloquially called the Lion Rampant, is the coat of arms historically used as arms of dominion by the monarchs of the Kingdom of Scotland, and later used within the coat
Heraldic tabard and caparison
Arms of Alexander II, as shown in Matthew Paris's Historia Anglorum, c. 1250
Arms of the King of Scots, from the Wernigerode Armorial, c. 1475
The arms in the Portuguese Livro de Armerio-Mor, c. 1509
Nemo me impune lacessit
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Nemo me impune lacessit is the national motto of Scotland.
Star of the Order of the Thistle, bearing the motto on a circlet
The motto displayed above the entrance to Edinburgh Castle