Why The Coat Of Arms Of The Kingdom Of Naples Is So Similar To That Of France In Ancient Times?

[PHILAndy]

the coat of arms of the Kingdom of Naples (coat of arms under the Angevins 1282-1442):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Naples#/media/File:Arms_of_the_Kingdom_of_Naples.svg

the coat of arms of the French Kings (1211-1376)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_France#/media/File:Blason_pays_fr_FranceAncien.svg

Did the Kingdom of Naples have any connection with the Kingdom of France in ancient times? What is the meaning of the yellow symbol on their coat of arms?

[jno]

I think Napels was ruled by the Bourbons, who were French.

[sandyRoe]

jno's answer takes the biscuit. ☺

[vetuste_ennemi]

...but Divebuddy's answer didn't mention Garibaldi!

[sandyRoe]

Nice judgement

[ABerrant]

They are derivations of the arms of the Capetian dynasty, the source of many European monarchies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capetian_dynasty

[shoota]

The yellow symbol is a Fleur-de-Lys (or Lis):

.The fleur-de-lys (or fleur-de-lis, plural: fleurs-de-lis; /ˌflɜrdəˈliː/, [ˌflœː(ʀ)dəˈlɪs] in Quebec French), translated from French as "lily flower") is a stylized design of either an iris or a lily that is now used purely decoratively as well as symbolically, or it may be "at one and the same time political, dynastic, artistic, emblematic and symbolic",[2] especially in heraldry.

While the fleur-de-lis has appeared on countless European coats of arms and flags over the centuries, it is particularly associated with the French monarchy on a historical context, and nowadays with the Spanish monarchy and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg as the only remaining monarchs of the House of Bourbon.'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_heraldry#Fleur-de-lys

[PHILAndy]

Thanks for your answers. As I look into more information, I find that the coat of arms of the Kingdom of Naples during 1282-1442 comes from the House of Anjou, which is founded by Charles 1 of Sicily, who ruled Naples from 1282 to 1285. Angevin means "from Anjou". And the House of Anjou is a branch from the House of Capet (also called the House of France).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capetian_House_of_Anjou

And the kings of France ruled in 987 to 1328 were from the House of Capet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Capet

These two houses used similar coat of arms characterized by the yellow symbol "fleur-de-lys". The earliest usage of the this symbol in the coat of arms of France was the arms of "France Ancien", started by Louis VII the Young. This coat of arms was used by the later kings of France until 1376.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_emblem_of_France
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_French_monarchs

Naples was ruled by members from the House of Anjou before 1442, and the Kingdom of Naples of this period can be distinguished as "Angevin Kingdom of Naples".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Naples

As the House of Anjou is a branch of the House of Capet (whose members ruled France), it inherited the coat of arms of the latter. And therefore the coat of arms of the Kingdom of Naples ruled by the House of Anjou from 1282-1442 was similar to that of France.

[Peter Pedant]

the thing ( line ) across the top shows " eldest son" or some other son

Doesnt the Prince of Wales have one ?

[ A white "label with three pendants" was added to the traditional coat of arms for Prince Charles to denote his position as the first-born son ] and this one is red

http://www.fleurdelis.com/royal.htm

[Peter Pedant]

Try dees:

( I s'pose that should be " Prova questo" )

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regno_di_Napoli

Morto Innocenzo IV, il nuovo papa di origine francese Urbano IV, ..... diretta annessione del Regno di Sicilia al Sacro Romano Impero Germanico, chiamò in Italia Carlo d'Angiò, conte di Angiò, e fratello del re di Francia, Luigi IX: nel 1266 il vescovo di Roma lo nominò rex Siciliae.

[ Innothente 4 - 'ee die, n the new pope, ee Urban IV directed annexation of the kingdom to Charles of Anjou, brozzer of the king of France. - [machine translation] ]

and since he ( Carlo d'angio ) would be a younger son of a king of France that may be where the labels come from