uncertain; the earliest depictions of the Staufer arms show a single lion; for a short time augmented to two lions, and after 1196 three lions or leopards.
unclear, allegedly (after the Chronica Maiora) used half an eagle and half a lion (per pale), possibly half of the three Staufer lions. See Eduard August Winkelmann, Philipp von Schwaben und Otto IV. von Braunschweig (1878), p. 499.