Editing Leicester (section)

===Coat of arms===
[[File:Arms of Leicester.svg|thumb|upright|Arms of the City of Leicester: ''Gules, a cinquefoil ermine pierced of the field'']]
[[File:Coat of Arms of Leicester City Council.svg|thumb|Full coat of arms with the supporters granted in 1929]]
The Corporation of Leicester's [[coat of arms]] was first granted to the city at the Heraldic Visitation of 1619, and is based on the arms of the first [[Earl of Leicester]], Robert Beaumont. The charge is a [[cinquefoil]] ermine, on a red field, and this emblem is used by the city council.

After Leicester became a city again in 1919, the city council applied to add to the arms. Permission for this was granted in 1929, when the supporting lions, from the Lancastrian Earls of Leicester, were added.

The motto ''"Semper Eadem"'' was the motto of [[Queen Elizabeth I]], who granted a royal charter to the city. It means "always the same" but with positive overtones meaning unchanging, reliable or dependable, and united. The crest on top of the arms is a white or silver legless [[wyvern]] with red and white wounds showing, on a wreath of red and white. The legless wyvern distinguishes it as a Leicester wyvern as opposed to other wyverns. The supporting lions are wearing coronets in the form of collars, with the white cinquefoil hanging from them.