154 FLORAL SYMBOLISM 



tin, in the town of that name, fleurs-de-lys form 

 the centre of elaborate tracery, and in the rood- 

 loft of the Madeleine at Troyes a very beautiful 

 crowned fieur-de-lys fills the panels of the sur- 

 mounting balustrade. 



In the panel ' designed for the tomb of Edward 

 VI by Torregiano, and now forming part of the 

 altar above Henry VII's tomb, the rose and the 

 lily meet in a charming Renaissance decoration, 

 and the link between the heraldic and the 

 symbolical seems to be supplied, for the personal 

 badges of the king, the Tudor rose and the fieur- 

 de-lys, are woven together in flowing lines, till, 

 losing heraldic stiffness and personal application, 

 they become the Rose of Love and the Lily of 

 Purity, a fit decoration for the altar of God. 



But it was not in France and England only 

 that the fleur-de-lys was used as a symbol of 

 royalty. In a Greek miniature of the tenth 

 century "" fleurs-de-lys are scattered over the 

 mantle of King David, and Didron mentions 

 that he saw a fleur-de-lys ornamentation of the 

 thirteenth century in the Church of Hecatompyli. 



1 Westminster Abbey. 



' Psalterium cum Figuris, Bib. National. 



