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Crosses in heraldry
The
Christian cross
had been used as a symbol of
Christianity
from
Late Antiquity
. Beginning in the 11th century, and increasingly during the age of the
Crusades
, a variety of variant forms of
cross symbols
were developed for the purposes of the emerging system of
heraldry
.
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