Crosses in heraldry
（重定向自Cross Bottony）
![Seal of Bouchard de Marly (d. 1226)](/Images/godic/202501/07/Bouchard_Marly25742.jpg")
![A page of Segar's Roll, a 17th-century copy of a late 13th-century English roll of arms. Crosses are shown on the coats of arms of (Pope?) John (a full crucifix including the figure of Christ), the king of Jerusalem (the Jerusalem cross), the Emperor of Constantinople (the emblem of the Palaiologos dynasty with the letters B interpreted as crescents), the](/Images/godic/202501/07/The_Segar's_Roll5742.jpg")
![Seal of Amadeus V, Count of Savoy (1249–1323), showing a knight on horseback displaying the Savoy cross on his shield, ailets (shoulder-pads) and caparison (horse covering)](/Images/godic/202501/07/Amadeus55742.jpg")
![](/Images/godic/202501/07/Azure-Cross-Or-Heraldry.svg5742.png")
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.