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unusual facts about heraldic



All Saints Church, Staplehurst

Those in the north chapel (one single-light and one two-light window) and the north aisle (three two-light windows) have heraldic badges and emblems, and another two-light window in the north aisle has a Nativity scene.

Antonio Isopi

When, in 1806, Württemberg became a kingdom King Friedrich I commissioned his royal sculptor Isopi, who had been raised to knighthood, to create monmental sculptures of the two heraldic animals, stag and lion.

Boutell

Charles Boutell (1812-1877), an English archaeologist and heraldic scholar

Bursey

Cathy Bursey-Sabourin, Fraser Herald at the Canadian Heraldic Authority in Ottawa, Canada

Burton, Wiltshire

Most of the ancient glass was destroyed by Oliver Cromwell's men in the Fanatique Tymes, as John Aubrey put it, but some fragmentary pieces remain in the north aisle windows, mainly heraldic forms.

Butley Priory

Only the gatehouse remains today, which is very well preserved and displays stone sculpted heraldic escutcheons of its many benefactors, similar to the surviving gatehouse of Kirkham Priory in Yorkshire.

Café HAG

In the 1920s and 1930s Kaffee HAG was known for the publication of the Coffee Hag albums of heraldic emblems.

Canadian heraldry

Two years later, on 4 June 1988, then-Governor General Jeanne Sauvé authorised the creation of the Canadian Heraldic Authority, made possible by letters patent signed by Queen Elizabeth II, on the advice of her Canadian Privy Council, and presented by her son, Prince Edward.

Church of St Michael, Tilehurst

Dutch merchant and lord of the manor, Sir Peter Vanlore, lies with wife in heraldic splendour, accompanied by nine children.

Coat

Coat of arms, a heraldic design used to identify a nation, city, family, or individual.

Coat of arms of Finland

It has been suggested that either Duke John himself, or his brother Eric XIV, was leading the design work on the heraldic signs on the tomb.

Coat of arms of Miskolc

Its legend is unreadable, and disputes arose about the identity of its heraldic figure, a king's head with a fleur-de-lis crown – according to one theory it is St. Stephen, the patron saint of the Avas church, but the fleur-de-lis indicates a king of the Angevin dynasty, possibly Louis the Great, who gave Miskolc town rights.

Coat of arms of Sussex

The device, displaying six martlets or heraldic swallows on a shield, later formed the basis of the flag of Sussex and the armorial bearings granted to the county councils of East and West Sussex.

Constance Egan

Egan's son, John Brooke-Little, founded the Society of Heraldic Antiquaries (now known as The Heraldry Society) in 1947, and Egan became managing editor of its journal The Coat of Arms.

Daniel Blok

Houbraken goes on to say that he made a genealogical and heraldic family tree for the Dukes of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and went from being painter to becoming courtier, but he lost everything in a fire in 1651 during the Thirty Years War.

Flag of Anglesey

According to the heraldic historian Wilfrid Scott-Giles, Anglesey County Council used the Hwfa arms informally before they were incorporated into the design granted to them officially.

George Nayler

Originally a miniature painter, Nayler began his heraldic career in 1792 (the year he married Charlotte Williams, the illegitimate daughter of Sir John Guise, 1st Baronet).

Hallvard Trætteberg

Hallvard Trætteberg (born 1898 in Løten, died 1987) was the leading Norwegian heraldic artist and the expert adviser on heraldry to the Government of Norway and the Norwegian Royal Family for much of the 20th century.

Hatchment

Funerary hatchment, a depiction within a black lozenge-shaped frame of a deceased's heraldic achievement

Heraldic badge

Heraldic badges were revived in 1906 by the College of Arms under Alfred Scott-Gatty, and have since then often been included in new grants of arms, in addition to the traditional grant of the coat of arms.

Heraldry societies

Heraldic authorities, which have been established by reigning monarchs or governments, are dealt with in a separate article.

Hünstetten

The coat of arms was approved in December 1979 by the State Archive in Darmstadt, and was given its form by Bad Nauheim heraldic artist Heinz Ritt after the community’s guidelines.

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.

Inspector of Regimental Colours

The Inspector of Regimental Colours is an officer of arms responsible for the design of standards, colours and badges of the British Army and of those Commonwealth states where the College of Arms has heraldic jurisdiction.

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).

Kashira

The coat of arms of Kashira contains the image of Zilant, a heraldic symbol of Kazan.

Milford Hall

Milford Hall also contains an ancient illuminated pedigree with heraldic arms of the family traced from its roots in Sussex and Normandy in the 11th century.

Nevile Wilkinson

Most of Ulster King of Arms's work was heraldic rather than genealogical, although collecting genealogies and proving pedigrees were essential to ensure that arms were used and inherited by the rightful heirs.

There were two disparate heraldic traditions in Ireland at that time – the old Gaelic Irish tradition, and the Norman and Anglo-Irish traditions which were part of the European heraldic mainstream.

Oborniki Śląskie

The flag of the city was approved by the Heraldic Commission, and has been the official emblem of Oborniki Śląskie since June 2002.

Old Bridge, Pontypridd

Representations of William Edwards' Bridge can be seen in local heraldic and civic stationery, including the crest of Pontypridd Rugby Football Club, and Cilfynydd Rugby Football Club.

Pierre Le Gros the Younger

The animated marble figures of the cardinal's parents, Frédéric-Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne and his wife, together with a Battle Relief and a winged Genius are today installed at the Hôtel-Dieu in Cluny, a fragment of the heraldic Tower in a granary of the abbey.

Poniatowa

The Bull ("Ciołek" in Polish) which appears on the town's coat of arms is borrowed from one of the Poniatowskis heraldic designs.

Prince's Stone

In 2006 the Carinthian governor Jörg Haider had the stone, that since 1905 had been displayed at the Carinthian State Museum, transferred again to the Heraldic Hall at the Klagenfurt Landhaus.

Robert de Romille

Although there is a town in Normandy in northwest France named Romillé the heraldic arms of the Romillé family there are different: two golden leopards on blue.

Robin de La Lanne-Mirrlees

In the story, James Bond's cover as genealogist Sir Hilary Bray was based on the Count's current position as heraldic researcher at the College of Arms in London.

Sir Crispin Agnew, 11th Baronet

His heraldic career began in 1978 when he was appointed Slains Pursuivant of Arms to the Chief of the Name and Arms of Hay, the Earl of Erroll, Lord High Constable of Scotland.

Sisters of Battle

The heraldic symbol of the Adepta Sororitas is the Fleur-de-lis.

State Herald of Sweden

The first of these regularly employed heraldic artists was Elias Brenner, who produced many of the noble arms found at Riddarhuset.

Strzeleczki

The current emblem is based on a drawing made by Heraldic artist Otto Hupp in 1898.

Tappan Adney

In Montreal, Quebec he created heraldic art, worked for the Museum of McGill University as a consultant on aboriginal lore, and consulted to McCord Museum on canoes 1920-33.

He then moved to Montreal, Quebec 1920-33 where he created heraldic art, worked for the Museum of McGill University as a consultant on aboriginal lore, and consulted to McCord Museum on canoes.

Tetradrachm

525-510 BC; the abandonment of the "heraldic"-type didrachms and the Archaic tetrardachms (early "owls") of the polis of Athens apparently took place shortly after the Battle of Salamis, 480 BC.

The Ocean and the Sun

The title of the seventh track, The Heraldic Beak of the Manufacturer's Medallion, is taken from J. G. Ballard's Crash.

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.

Thomas Willement

In 1846-1847, Willement made eight stained glass windows with heraldic designs for St Michael and All Angels Church, Badminton.

Vauxhall Wyvern

The name comes from the mythical beast the Wyvern and may be due to a misidentification of the heraldic Griffin on the Vauxhall badge.

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.

Winged lion

The emblem of the Republic of Venice as the heraldic symbol of St. Mark the Evangelist, the patron saint of the Republic.


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