Since the 15th century a former royal crown (without arches, orb and cross) set atop the shield, as was customary in territories of the Crown.
Crest The coat of arms of Barcelona with the Aragonese royal crest (1627) The coat of arms of Barcelona with a county crown and the crest of the bat (Early 20th Century) This appeal to repeal the emblems of 1996 was successful and a most appropriate version had to be created, so the current arms, quartered with four bars was adopted in 2004. The versions of 1996 caused such controversy, because they were not designed to conform to traditional heraldic rules and the content of the Law of local symbols of Catalonia, that led to the Catalan Society of Genealogy, Heraldry, Sigillography, Vexillology and Nobility lodged an appeal against them.
A secondary version, for ceremonial use and shown in the seal of the city with four pallets, quartered, and a former royal crown. In 1996 was adopted a monochrome logotype as official emblem of Barcelona, a rhombus or lozenge with the cross two bars impaled, sharply defined edges and without the crown. Later the shield charged with two bars was recurrent source of discussion as a proper variant of Barcelona.
Number of bars Version of the arms of Barcelona with two bars on the ancient main façade of the City Hallīefore the Royal grant of 1345, that set the number of paletts to four, where periods when four pallets were alternated with three or two. In 1359 the Generalitat of Catalonia adopted the Saint George's Cross as flag and sign « by being the ancient arms of the County of Barcelona». The arms of the citizens were placed in the most honourable quarters (the first and fourth) because their representative traditionally forced the king to negotiate his policies. Quartering in is a method of joining several different coats of arms together in one shield to avoid conflict with otherwise similar coats of arms but quarters are numbered from the dexter chief (the corner nearest to the right shoulder of a man standing behind the shield), proceeding across the top row, and then across the next row and so on. The Aragonese Royal Standard (and County of Barcelona, the four red stripes on a yellow field) used alongside the banner of the city worn by Barcelonan soldiers and later joining them in a quartering first depicted on the heraldic sign and later on the banner. Thus the cross seem to have been used as a distinguishing and official of Barcelonan citizens, or perhaps slightly earlier. The Neighborly host ordinances of 1395 ordered: « Than for the city councillors, the present be made a long side banner which has the sign of Saint George, containing a red cross on a white field, that is badge of the city». The Saint George's Cross is shown on a 13th-century mural of the Tinell Hall, depicting by Barcelonan or Catalan soldiers.
The first instance of a cross is found in a seal of 1288.
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