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unusual facts about Heraldry


William Warrington

In his youth, Warrington first trained with his father as a painter of armorial shields.


Academia Mexicana de Genealogía y Heráldica

Since its establishment, delegates from the Academia Mexicana de Genealogía y Heráldica had attended to many international congresses of Genealogy and Heraldry, among others, the most important are the International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences, the Congreso Iberoamericano de las Ciencias Genealógica y Heráldica and the Reunión Americana de Genealogía.

The Premio Academia Mexicana de Genealogía y Heráldica is a prize established in 1985 by Guillermo Romo Célis (1912–1988) as a recognition of excellence in achievements on published studies on genealogy and heraldry, and it's given during the celebration of the International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences.

Arma Christi

They are seen as arms in the sense of heraldry, and also as the weapons Christ used to achieve his conquest over Satan; the prime member, the Cross, had been introduced to Christian art in the 4th century as the crux invicta, a symbol of victory.

Bernard Burke

Continuing the strong family tradition of genealogy and heraldry, another of Burke's sons, Sir Henry Farnham Burke, would eventually rise to the office of Garter Principal King of Arms.

Bournville School

The school's badge depicts a Griffin (or Gryphon) segreant, wearing a mortarboard cap and brandishing a rolled Academic degree and draws its imagery from the school's proximity to the nearby traditional watercourse of Griffin's Brook, sadly now piped underground for most of its length.

Brownsover

There is one armorial monumental inscription in the floor of the church, the grave of John Howkins (1579-1678), a wealthy lawyer who owned the estate of Pinchbank in South Mimms, Middlesex.

Calvin Ira Kephart

Colonel Calvin Ira Kephart LL.D. (1883–1969) was an American professor of law, genealogist, historian, expert on heraldry and amateur ethnologist.

Canadian heraldry

The history of European-style heraldry in Canada began with the raising of the Royal Arms of France by French explorer Jacques Cartier in 1534, when he landed on Canadian soil at what is now known as the Gaspé Peninsula.

Carlos O'Neill

On 25 May 1825 the Farm was visited by King John VI of Portugal, accompanied by the Infanta Isabel Maria of Portugal and the Infanta Maria da Assunção of Portugal, and by the Court, being received and hosted by its Proprietor, the mentioned Carlos O'Neill, for whom the mentioned farm had passed on to, by marriage, by which the Crest of the O'Neill Family was placed over the door of the western front, etc.

Cathy Bursey-Sabourin

Designed by her the maple leaf emblem symbolizing Ottawa, in an arrangement with two smaller leaves representing the two sciences - genealogy and heraldry - was an official emblem of the 22nd International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences held in 1996 in Ottawa.

Coast Guard Cross

The stripes of the shield are alternating red and white colored enamel, while the chief is enameled blue with white five-pointed stars.

Coat of arms of Ghana

Holding the coat of arms and seal are two golden Tawny eagles, which have black stars on a band of the national colors hanging around the neck.

Coat of arms of Nunavut

:and for Supporters: On a compartment dexter of Land set with Arctic poppies, dwarf fireweed and Arctic heather proper sinister ice floes Argent set on barry wavy Azure and Argent dexter a caribou sinister a narwhal both proper.

Coat of arms of Romania

Then the coat of arms of Transylvania was placed in the fourth quarter, with the Turul replaced by a black aquila, the third quarter depicted the joined coats of arms of Banat and Oltenia (the bridge of Apollodorus of Damascus and a golden lion respectively), and the coat of arms of Dobruja was placed in an insertion.

Coat of arms of the Department of Magdalena

It has a tincture of azure, but in variant versions the field changes of tincture on both chief and base; in the modern version, the azure or blue represent Magdalena River and the Caribbean Sea.

Coat of arms of the London Borough of Enfield

The crest contains a stag's head with a wreath of red roses, derived from the supporters in the coat of arms of the Municipal Borough of Southgate, where the stag represented the forests of the area and the roses stood for the Duchy of Lancaster, the well-known red rose of Lancaster.

Demon's Crest

The game's story revolves around the Crests, six magical stones which preside over their respective elements (Fire, Earth, Water, Air, Time and Heaven).

Flag of Detroit

The upper fly (right) quarter represents Britain, which controlled the fort from 1760 to 1796; it has three gold lions on a red field, imitating the Royal Arms of England.

Flag of Nashville, Tennessee

The seal displays a Native American holding a skull standing by a tobacco plant, an eagle, and a badge-shaped shield decorated in a style similar to the American flag.

German heraldry

Due to the early practice of marshalling by dividing the marshalled arms through the middle of the charge (called "dimidiation"), some charges took on the appearance of being themselves divided, such as the arms of Hochtaunuskreis.

Hamlet Watling

He compiled 12 volumes of Suffolk heraldry and genealogy in MS. He excavated on Roman sites in Suffolk during the 1860s and 1870s, and made various investigations of the Antonine Itinerary in the county.

Heraldic authority

Carolina Herald was an English herald responsible for heraldry in Carolina in colonial times, early and mid 18th Century.

Hillesheim, Mainz-Bingen

In Ludwig Roselius’s Coffee Hag albums from the early 20th century, Hillesheim’s arms are shown in somewhat different tinctures.

Icelandic heraldry

Rather than actual coats of arms, municipalities carry logos which usually look vaguely like a coat of arms, but the rules of heraldry are not always observed and the results vary, ranging from such characteristically heraldic arms as those of Akureyri to such unheraldic logos as that of Djupivogur.

James Dallaway

He had dedicated his Origin and Progress of Heraldry to Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk, the Earl Marshal, and through the Duke's influence he was appointed chaplain and physician to the British embassy to the Ottoman Empire led by Robert Liston.

Jan Baptist Zangrius

Zangrius inscribed into the oval escutcheon of his hatching table both the heraldic and standard French language appellations of the given tinctures as follows – Or, Argent, Geulle gueules and Rouge (gules), Azur and Bleu (azure), Sinople and Verd Vert (vert).

Judah Leon Templo

Jacob Judah Aryeh Leon Templo (born 1603 in Buarcos, Portugal, died after 1675) was a ḥakam, translator of the Psalms, and expert on heraldry, of Marano descent.

Mantle

Mantling, heraldry drapery that is tied to the helmet above the shield.

Märkischer Kreis

The original colour of the lion was unknown, so a black lion with red tongue and claws was chosen, as in the arms of the Dukes of Jülich.

Municipal Borough of Middleton

The crest above the shield was made up of a tower and lion from the heraldry of the Earls of Middleton between two boars' heads from the arms of another Middleton family.

Order of Manitoba

The main badge consists of a gold medallion in the form of a stylized crocus—the official provincial flower—with the obverse in white enamel with gold edging, and bearing at its centre the escutcheon of the arms of Manitoba, all surmounted by a St. Edward's Crown symbolizing the Canadian monarch's role as the fount of honour.

Order of the Crescent

Recipients (usually naval or army officers or representatives of Britain or France, highly present in the region during the Napoleonic Wars) were awarded a lozenge-shaped silver radiant star, embroidered in silver thread on an azure background with a star and crescent in the centre, and a red ribbon, to be worn with the crescent to the star's left.

Peter Drummond

Peter Drummond-Murray of Mastrick (born 1929), Scottish retired banker and authority on heraldry

Quarters of nobility

For example, a person having sixteen quarterings (formally in heraldry Seize Quartiers) might have exclusively noble ancestry for the four previous generations (i.e., to the great-great-grandparent level): Given two parents per generation, four generations of uninterrupted nobility = 24 = 16.

Sainty

Guy Stair Sainty (born 1950), art dealer and author on royal genealogy and heraldry

Schutz, Germany

The chief showing a gold fess dancetty (horizontal zigzag stripe) on a red field is a rendering of the arms formerly borne by the Counts of Manderscheid, although the tinctures are reversed (this might be to comply with the general rule in heraldry that holds that two colours or two metals must not touch).

Seal of Dartmouth College

1765 with two books, one of which is A Display of Heraldry by John Guillim (1610).

State Council of Heraldry

Located in Tbilisi, the council advises the government of Georgia on all matters related to heraldry.

The Way of the Roses

The route is well signposted with signs carrying the name of the route or marked with the red and white heraldic roses form which the name of the route is derived.

Tuntange

The chief symbolizes the three castles in the municipality; the Hollenfels Castle and the Old Castle of Ansembourg and New Castle of Ansembourg.

Urquía

The first: In a foil cross Gules (red), a band of gold (symbol of knighthood and cross from the right shoulder) pompous in dredger (2 dragons) Vert (green, is a symbol of strength) and accompanied on top of a silver arm with a silver dagger and a gold lining.

Urtijëi

The emblem shows Saint Ulrich, with the bishop's vestments and an or cross in his right hand, mounted on a horse, with or harness, on three vert mountains on or.

Vair

As a tincture, vair is considered a fur and is therefore exempted from the Rule of tincture (i.e. it can be placed upon a metal, a colour, or both).

White Lion Society

Brooke-Little explained that the late Charles Wilfrid Scott-Giles, Fitzalan Pursuivant of Arms Extraordinary, had previously suggested the same idea, giving it the notional name of The White Lion Society after the heraldic supporters of the College of Arms being two white lions taken from the Earl Marshal's Mowbray Supporters.

William Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon

The arms are Courtenay impaling the arms of his wife's father as Duke of York: Quarterly 1st: Royal arms of Lionel, Duke of Clarence; second and third, Elizabeth de Burgh, 4th Countess of Ulster; fourth, Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March.

Worshipful Company of Loriners

The Loriners' coat of arms is Azure on a Chevron Argent, between three Manage-bits Or, as many Bosses Sable, supported asymmetrically by a single Horse, between Foliage of Palm and of Juniper.


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