Coat of Arms
The heraldic blazon for the coat of arms of the barony is: Quarterly: 1st and 4th, gules, semée of cross crosslets fitchée or two lions passant guardant in pale argent (for Acton); 2nd, quarterly: 1st and 4th, azure, six fleurs-de-lis three two and one argent, a chief dancetty of the last; 2nd and 3rd, or, a cross patonce gules; over all an escutcheon gules thereon a tower argent, a chief dancetty of the last (for Dalberg); 3rd, azure, a lion passant or between three plates each charged with a griffin's head erased sable (for Lyon).
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Acton
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Dalberg-Acton
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Lyon-Dalberg-Acton
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