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Fidei Defensor

Latin for the title of ‘Defender of the Faith’ (still retained by British sovereigns) conferred by Pope Leo X on Henry VIII of England in 1521 to reward his writing of a treatise against the Protestant Martin Luther.



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Visually, the design alludes to his name and titles: gold braid outlines an interlaced cross and a shield, perhaps signifying Henry's self-assumed role as defensor fidei.
Your humble handmaid: Elizabethan gifts of needlework by Klein, Lisa M. / Renaissance Quarterly
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