12 shields, 4 rows, left to right, numbered as marked in illustration: 'Armas dos nove da fama (Arms of the Nine Worthies)

• Row 1 (top) First three Hebrews
  • 1: Joshua
  • 2: King David
  • 3: Judas Maccabeus
• Row 2 First three Gentiles
  • 4: Alexander the Great
  • 5: Hector
  • 6: Julius Caesar
• Row 3 First three Christians
  • 7: King Arthur
  • 8: Charlemagne
  • 9: Godfrey of Bouillon
• Row 4 (bottom) Armas e insigias Romanos
  • 1: Arms of the City of Rome: Lupa Germanorum Nutrix ("the nurturing wolf of the twins"). Vert, the Capitoline Wolf sable nourishing the infant twins Romulus and Remus proper a dove or feeding its mouth
  • 2: Arms of Romulus: Ex Necessitate ("from necessity") Vert, a deracinated tree supporting in its branches a corpse wrapped in a funeral shroud or. Possibly depicting the body of the murdered Remus.
  • 3: Arms of the Roman Republic: Ubi Stetero Caput Orbis Erit ("Where the head of the world will stand"?) (Ovid, Amores, Amores 1.15: Rōma triumphātī dum caput orbis erit (“While Rome will be the head of the conquered world”): Azure, an inescutcheon or