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PALIMPSEST HERALD
Talan Gwynek
(Brian M. Scott)
2323 S. Taylor Road
Cleveland Heights, OH 44118-3421
216-397-0084
20 July 1994
Baron Talan Gwynek alias Palimpsest Herald unto Shayk Da'ud ibn Auda alias Laurel King of Arms and all present or to come which these present letters shall see or hear sendeth Greetings.
Accompanying this letter is a very tentative list of 'important' mundane armory, including badges and flags. When I wrote the July Rules Letter I did not expect to have one until after Pennsic, but then I received two unexpected but exceedingly timely communications. I am extremely grateful to Baron Bruce Draconarius and Lord Lothar von Katzenellenbogen (a MidRealm group pursuivant and internal commenter) for sending me lists of mundane armory that they thought should be protected under the MODEST PROPOSAL. I have taken all of Bruce's list and most of Lothar's and added a fair bit of my own, especially from (Louda & Maclagan). Each blazon is followed by an attribution in curly braces: B for Baron Bruce, L for Lord Lothar, and T for Talan. (I've attributed to myself only those items that weren't suggested by either of the other two.)
Since only three people have contributed substantially to this list, it is probably flawed thrice over. First, I'm sure that we've overlooked some items that most of the College would like to see protected. Secondly, we may have included an item or two that really doesn't belong. (Should we really bother with the Ducs DE BROGLIE, even though Louis was a major figure in modern physics? What about John Milton? What about the WAKE knot badge?) And thirdly, I cannot guarantee that all of the entries are correct. I should greatly appreciate commentary on all three counts.
A great deal of important armory is so obviously marshalled that it's hard to imagine how it could possibly conflict with a stylistically acceptable SCA submission. For now I have saved time and space by omitting such armories; eventually we probably want to add them, if only because our style rules are subject to change, but it would be a waste of time to do so now. For the same reason I have omitted the augmented arms of Christopher Columbus, Quarterly CASTILE; LEON; Azure semy of islands and half surrounded by terra firma argent all bearing tropical trees vert and semy of golden grains; Azure, five anchors in saltire Or; overall a point pointed barry wavy argent and azure!
The sketchiest section is that containing flags. I've tried to include all Western European flags and all flags of nations bordering the Mediterranean Sea. (The Swiss and Austrian flags were omitted because they are identical to the corresponding arms.) I've tried to include the national flags of all countries where there is significant SCA activity. And I've included a handful of other flags that I think are likely to be widely recognized. I have not included the flags of the U.S. and Australian States and the Canadian provinces, many of which would in any case be almost unblazonable. (I did make an exception for the wonderfully heraldic Quebec flag; the equally heraldic flag of the State of Alabama is identical to the arms of FITZGERALD elsewhere in the list.)
Finally, most of my blazons conform more or less to current SCA style. In particular, I have not mentioned the tinctures of tongues, beaks, and claws, though such details are remarkably consistent in some of the national armory; I have blazoned the tincture of crowns, however. Similarly, I've not blazoned the number of traits of barry fields, though this was often a fairly consistent feature. I've also not blazoned the presence of kleestengeln on several Continental eagles; they are not always present, especially in early versions, and it appears that by our standards they fall under the heading of artistic variation or negligible detail.
By an accident of good timing I was able to get this into the LoAR packet instead of Jaelle's August mailing, thereby saving a few weeks. Once again, I hope that everyone will take a close look at it and give me feedback on what should be added, subtracted, or corrected.
Given by my hand at Scholarly Manor in the Barony
of the Cleftlands this 20th day of July in the reign of Finn
and Garlanda Ao Sis
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Talan Palimpsest
'IMPORTANT' ARMS
ALENÇON, Dukes of. Azure, three fleurs-de-lis Or within a bordure argent semy of torteaux. {B}
ANJOU-PLANTAGENET [first house of Anjou]. Gules, two lions combattant Or. {T}
AQUITAINE. Gules, a lion passant gardant Or. {B}
ARAGON. Or, four palets gules. {B,L}
ARCH-CHAMBERLAIN OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE. Azure, a sceptre [sometimes two sceptres in saltire] Or.
ARCH-STEWARD OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE. Gules, an orb Or. {T}
ARCH-TREASURER OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE. Gules, the crown of Charlemagne proper. {T}
AUSTRIA. Gules, a fess argent. {B.L}
AUSTRIA (ancient, or LOWER AUSTRIA). Azure, five eagles displayed 2, 2, and 1 Or. {T}
AUVERGNE, Counts of. Or, a gonfanon gules. {T}
BADEN. Or, a bend gules. {T}
BALLIOL, JOHN, King of Scotland. Gules, an escutcheon voided argent. [Sometimes blazoned Gules, an orle argent.] {B}
BAR, Counts of. Azure crusily fitchy and two barbels haurient addorsed Or. {T}
BAVARIA. Lozengy bendwise azure and argent. {B.L}
BEAUCHAMP. Gules, a fess between six crosses crosslet Or. {B}
BERRY, Dukes of. France within a bordure gules. {T}
BISMARCK, OTTO Prince VON. Azure, a stemless trefoil Or between each pair of leaves an oak leaf argent. {T}
BOHEMIA. Gules, a lion rampant queue-forchy argent crowned Or. {B,L}
BOHUN, Earl of Hereford, Constable of England. Azure, a bend argent cotised between six lions rampant Or. {B}
BONAPARTE, House of. Gules, two scarpes between two mullets Or. {T}
BORGHESE, House of. Azure, a dragon rampant wings displayed and on a chief Or an eagle displayed sable crowned Or. {T}
BORGIA, House of. Or, a bull passant gules atop a terrace couped vert within a bordure gules semy of flames Or. {T}
BOURBON, House of (ancient arms). Or, a lion rampant within an orle of escallops gules. {T}
BOURBON, Duke of. France (ancient or modern) and overall a bendlet gules. {B}
BRABANT. Sable, a lion rampant Or. [In modern times the arms of Belgium.] {B}
BRANDENBERG. Argent, an eagle displayed gules crowned Or. {B}
BRITTANY. Ermine. {B,L}
BROGLIE, Dukes DE. Or, a saltire moline azure. [Louis de Broglie was the creator of wave mechanics.] {T}
BRUCE, former royal house of Scotland. Or, a saltire and a chief gules. {B}
BRUNSWICK, Dukes of. Gules, in pale two lions passant gardant Or. {T}
BUCHANAN of that Ilk. Or, a lion rampant sable. For augmentation, a double tressure flory counter-flory sable. {B}
BULGARIA. Gules, a lion rampant crowned Or. {T}
BURGUNDY (ancient). Bendy Or and azure, a bordure gules. {B}
BURGUNDY (modern). Azure semy-de-lis Or, a bordure gules. {B}
BYRON, Baron. Argent, three bendlets enhanced gules. {B}
PALAIOLOGOS (and BYZANTINE EMPIRE). Gules, a cross between four furisons Or. {L}
CAMBRIDGE, UNIVERSITY OF. Gules, on a cross ermine between four lions passant gardant Or a closed book gules. {B}
CAMERON OF LOCHIEL. Gules, three bars Or. {B}
CAMPBELL, Duke of Argyll. Gyronny Or and sable. {B}
CANTERBURY, ARCHBISHOPRIC OF. Azure, an episcopal staff Or and overall on a pallium argent fringed Or four crosses formy fitchy sable. {B}
CASTILE. Gules, a castle triple-towered Or. {B,L}
CECIL, Baron of Burghley, counsellor to Elizabeth. Barry of ten argent and azure, six escutcheons sable each charged with a lion rampant argent. {B}
CHAMPAGNE, Counts of. Azure, a bend argent doubly cotised the interiors of the cotises potent counter-potent Or. {B}
CHANDOS. Or, a pile gules. {B}
CHAUCER, GEOFFREY. Per pale argent and gules, a bend counterchanged. {B}
CLARE, Earl of Gloucester. Or, three chevrons gules. {B}
CLEVES, Dukes of. Gules, an escutcheon argent and overall an escarbuncle Or. {B}
COLONNA, House of. Gules, a column argent crowned and its capital and base Or. {T}
COMYN, Lord of Badenoch. Gules, three garbs Or. {B}
CONSTANTINOPLE, EMPEROR OF. Gules, a double-headed eagle Or. {T}
CONSTANTINOPLE, LATIN EMPIRE OF. Gules crusily couped, a cross between crosses couped each within an annulet Or. [This has a number of variants, including Gules, a cross between four bezants each between four crosses couped Or and charged with another throughout gules.] {T}
CORNWALL. Sable bezanty. {B}
COUCY, Les Sires de. Barry vair and gules. {T}
CROATIA. Checky gules and argent. {B,L}
CROMWELL, OLIVER, Lord Protector of England. Sable, a lion rampant argent. {B}
CUNNINGHAM, Earl of Glencairn. Argent, a shakefork sable. {B}
DANTE ALIGHIERI. Per pale Or and sable, a bar [enhanced?] argent. {T}
DAUPHIN, Prince of France. Or, a dolphin haurient azure finned gules. [This is usually but not always found quartered with France.] {B,L}
DELLA ROVERE, Dukes of URBINO. Azure, an oak tree eradicated its four branches knotted in saltire Or. [Pope Sixtus IV, for whom the Sistine Chapel is named, was of this family.] {T}
DENMARK. Or semy of hearts gules, in pale three lions passant [sometimes gardant] azure crowned Or. {B,L}
DESPENSER, Earl of Winchester. Quarterly argent and gules fretty Or, a bendlet sable. {B}
DOUGLAS. Argent, a heart gules and on a chief azure three mullets argent. For augmentation, the heart crowned proper. [The original arms were simply Argent, on a chief azure three mullets argent, but the later form, with the heart, is better known.] {B}
DRAKE, SIR FRANCIS. Sable, a fess wavy between two estoiles argent. {B}
DRUMMOND, Earl of Perth. Or, three bars wavy gules. {B}
DU GUESCLIN, BERTRAND. Argent, a double-headed eagle sable and overall a bendlet gules. {T}
EDWARD THE CONFESSOR (attributed). Azure, a cross flory between five doves Or. {T}
ENGLAND. Gules, in pale three lions passant gardant Or. {B,L}
ERSKINE, Earl of Mar. Argent, a pale sable. {B}
ESTE, HOUSE OF (and MODENA). Azure, an eagle displayed argent crowned Or. {T}
ETON COLLEGE. Sable, three lilies argent and on a chief per pale azure and gules a fleur-de-lis and a lion passant gardant Or. {B}
FARNESE (and PARMA). Or, six fleurs-de-lis azure. {T}
FINLAND. Gules semy of roses argent, a lion rampant crowned Or brandishing with one human arm armored a sword and in base a falchion fesswise reversed proper. {L}
FITZGERALD. Argent, a saltire gules. {B}
FLANDERS. Or, a lion rampant sable. {B}
FRANCE (ancient). Azure semy-de-lis Or. {B,L}
FRANCE (modern). Azure, three fleurs-de-lis Or. {B,L}
GALICIA, KINGDOM OF. Azure crusily [sometimes fitchy] and a covered chalice Or. [Sometimes there are only six crosslets.] {T}
GERMANY. Or, an eagle displayed sable. {B,L}
GOD (attributed). Gules, a pall within and conjoined to an orle the intersections surmounted by four roundels 2, 1, and 1 Or. [I've omitted the Latin script on the orle, roundels, and pall. The outer roundels are labelled PATER, FILIUS, and SPIRITUS SANCTUS, sometimes with the latter two transposed; the centremost roundel is labelled DEUS; each line connecting two of the outer roundels bears the words NON EST, and those connecting the central roundel to the outer ones bear the word EST.] {B}
GONZAGA (and MANTUA). Barry Or and sable. [Later these were changed to Argent, a cross formy throughout gules between four eagles displayed sable.] {T}
GORDON OF HUNTLEY. Azure, three boar's heads couped close Or. {B}
GRAHAM, Duke of Montrose. Or, on a chief sable three escallops Or. {B}
GREECE. Azure a cross [sometimes couped] argent. {B,L}
GRENADA. Argent, a pomegranate slipped and leaved vert seeded gules [later the pomegranate became gules]. {B,L}
GUYENNE, Dukes of. Gules, a lion passant gardant Or. {T}
HAPSBURG. Or, a lion rampant gules crowned azure. [These are the original arms of the family.] {T}
HARVARD, UNIVERSITY OF. Gules, three open books argent charged with the word VERITAS sable. {B}
HASTINGS. Or, a maunch gules. {B}
HAWKWOOD, SIR JOHN. Argent, on a chevron sable three escallops argent. {B}
HAY, Earl of Errol, High Constable of Scotland. Argent, three escutcheons gules. {B}
HESSE. Azure, a lion rampant queue-forchy barruly argent and gules crowned Or maintaining a sword proper. [Also the arms of THURINGIA; the sword is sometimes omitted.] {T}
HOHENSTAUFEN. Or, in pale three lions passant sable. [These (sometimes with the dexter forelegs of the lions gules) are also the arms of SWABIA and are sometimes given as those of the KING OF THE ROMANS.] {T}
HOHENZOLLERN. Quarterly argent and sable. {T}
HOLSTEIN, Counts of. Gules, a nesselblatt argent. {B}
HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE. Or, a double-headed eagle displayed sable [sometimes crowned, sometimes also nimbed Or]. [Originally the eagle had one head.] {B,L}
HOWARD, Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of England. Gules, a bend between six crosses crosslet fitchy argent. For augmentation, on the bend in chief an escutcheon Or charged with a demi-lion its mouth pierced by an arrow within a double tressure flory counter-flory gules. {B}
HUNGARY (ancient). Barry argent and gules. {B,L}
HUNGARY (modern). Gules, a cross of Lorraine argent issuant from a trimount vert. {B}
INNES of that Ilk. Argent, three mullets azure. {B}
IRELAND. Azure, a harp Or stringed argent. {B,L}
ITALY. Gules, a cross argent. {L}
JERUSALEM. Argent, a cross potent between four crosses couped Or [or Argent, a cross of Jerusalem Or]. {B}
JOAN OF ARC. Azure, a sword proper enfiling in chief a coronet between in fess two fleurs-de-lis Or. {T}
JOLLY ROGER, THE. Sable, in pale a skull and in saltire two thigh-bones argent. {T}
KENNEDY. Sable, three tilting helms argent. {B}
KING ARTHUR (attributed). Vert, a cross argent and in canton the Virgin holding the Child Or. {T}
KING ARTHUR (attributed). Gules, in pale three crowns Or. {T}
LEON. Argent, a lion rampant purpure [sometimes gules]. {B,L}
LIECHTENSTEIN. Per fess Or and gules. {B}
LITHUANIA. Gules, a knight armed cap-à-pie mounted on a white horse brandishing a sword proper and maintaining an oval shield azure charged with a patriarchal cross Or. {T}
LONGESPEE, WILLIAM, Earl of Salisbury. Azure, six lions rampant Or. {B}
LORRAINE. Or, on a bend gules three alerions displayed argent. [The alerions are eagles without beaks or feet. Originally the charges were eagles.] {B}
LUTTRELL, GEOFFREY. Azure, a bend between six martlets argent. [From the well-known Psalter.] {T}
LUXEMBURG. Barry argent and azure, a lion rampant queue-forchy gules crowned Or. {L}
MAJORCA. Aragon and overall a bend azure. {T}
MALTA, ORDER OF THE KNIGHTS OF. Gules, a cross argent. {B}
MAN, Lord of the Isle of. Gules, a triskelion of armored legs argent. {B}
MARSHALL, WILLIAM THE, Regent of England. Per pale Or and vert, a lion rampant gules. [Assumed by later Marshals of England as well.] {B}
MAZARIN, JULES CARDINAL. Azure, a fasces Or bound and the axe argent overall on a fess gules three mullets Or. {T}
MECKLENBURG, Dukes of. Or, an ox's head cabossed sable crowned Or. {T}
MEDICI, Dukes of Tuscany. Or, in annulo six torteaux. For augmentation, the torteau in chief replaced by a roundel azure charged with three fleurs-de-lis Or. {B,L}
MILTON, JOHN. Argent, a double-headed eagle displayed gules. {T}
MONTFORT, SIMON DE, Earl of Leicester. Gules, a lion rampant queue-forchy argent. {B}
MORAVIA, Markgraf of. Azure, an eagle displayed checky argent [sometimes Or] and gules crowned Or. {T}
MORTIMER, Earl of March. Barry Or and azure, on a chief azure two palets between two gyrons Or and overall an escutcheon argent. {B}
MOWBRAY, Duke of Norfolk. Gules, a lion rampant argent. {B}
MONACO. Lozengy argent and gules. {B,L}
NAPOLEON I. Azure, an eagle displayed contourny grasping in both claws a thunderbolt Or. {T}
NAVARRE. Gules, an escarbuncle of chain within and conjoined to an orle of chain Or. {B,L}
NELSON, SIR HORATIO, Viscount. Or, a cross flory sable and overall on a bend gules another engrailed Or charged with three grenades sable flammant proper. For augmentation, on a chief wavy argent a palm tree between a disabled ship and a ruinous battery all issuant from waves of the sea all proper. For second augmentation (posthumous), on a fess wavy overall azure the word TRAFALGAR Or. {B}
NETHERLANDS. Azure billety and a lion rampant crowned Or maintaining a sword proper and a sheaf of seven arrows inverted argent tipped Or. {T}
NEVILLE. Gules, a saltire argent. [Richard Neville the Kingmaker bore it with a label for difference compony argent and azure.] {B}
NEWTON, SIR ISAAC. Sable, two shin-bones in saltire argent. {B}
NORMANDY. Gules, in pale two lions passant gardant Or. {B,L}
NORWAY. Gules, a lion rampant [sometimes crowned] Or sustaining a battleaxe argent. {B,L}
O'BRIEN. Gules, in pale three lions passant gardant per pale Or and argent. {B}
O'CONNOR (Don). Argent, a tree eradicated vert. {B}
OLIHANT, Lord Oliphant. Gules, three crescents argent. {B}
OXFORD, UNIVERSITY OF. Azure, on an open book argent between three crowns Or the words DOMINUS ILLUMINATIO MEO sable. {B}
PALATINATE OF THE RHINE. Sable, a lion rampant Or crowned gules. {T}
PEPYS, SAMUEL. Sable, on a bend Or between two horse's heads erased argent three fleurs-de-lis sable. [Occasionally differenced with a crescent.] {B}
PERCY, Earl of Northumberland. Or, a lion rampant azure. {B}
PHILIP OF BURGUNDY. Azure semy-de-lis Or, a bordure gules. {B}
POLAND. Gules, an eagle displayed argent crowned Or. {B,L}
POLE, DE LA, Earl of Suffolk. Azure, a fess between three leopard's faces Or. {B}
POMERANIA. Argent, a griffin segreant gules crowned Or. {T}
PORTUGAL (original). Argent, in cross five escutcheons azure platy. [The orientation of the escutcheons to dexter and to sinister varied.] {B,L}
PORTUGAL (later period). Argent, in cross five escutcheons azure each charged with five plates in saltire all within a bordure gules semy of castles Or. {B,L}
PRUSSIA. Argent, an eagle displayed sable crowned Or. {L}
PUSHKIN, ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH. Vert, a saltire between twelve crosses crosslet Or. {T}
REICHSMARSCHAL OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE. Per fess sable and argent, two swords in saltire gules. {B}
RICHARD, Earl of Cornwall. Argent, a lion rampant gules crowned Or within a bordure sable bezanty. {B}
RICHELIEU, ARMAND JEAN DU PLESSIS, CARDINAL DE. Argent, three chevrons gules. {B}
ROME, CITY OF. Gules, in bend a cross couped and the letters S P Q R Or. {T}
SAINT JOHN, ORDER OF THE KNIGHTS OF. See Malta, Order of the Knights of. {B}
SAN MARINO. Azure, in fess three towers each ensigned with an ostrich plume argent issuant from a mountain of three peaks vert. {T}
SARDINIA. Argent, a cross gules between four Moor's heads couped sable. {T}
SATAN (attributed). Gules, a fess Or between three frogs vert. {T}
SAVOY. Gules, a cross argent. {T}
SAXONY. Barry sable and Or, a crancelin vert. [A crancelin is a bend engrailed on the upper edge the points trefly; it is usually enarched.] {B,L}
SCHLESWIG. Or, in pale two lions passant azure. {T}
SCOTLAND. Or, a lion rampant within a double tressure flory counter-flory gules. {B,L}
SCROPE. Azure, a bend Or. {B}
SERBIA. Gules, a cross between four furisons argent. {T}
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. Or, on a bend sable a tilting spear Or steeled proper. {B}
SICILY. Per saltire Or four palets gules and argent an eagle displayed sable. [Argent, an eagle displayed sable was borne by Manfred, King of Sicily.] {B,L}
STEWART, royal house of Scotland. Or, a fess checky argent and azure. For augmentation, the fess within a double tressure flory counter-flory gules. {B}
STYRIA. Vert, a panther rampant argent incensed proper. [The panther is drawn in the German style.] {B}
SWEDEN. Azure, three crowns Or. {B,L}
SWEDEN. Azure, three scarpes wavy argent and overall a lion rampant crowned Or. [The oldest arms of the Swedish state.] {T}
SWITZERLAND. Gules, a cross couped argent. {B,L}
SYDNEY. Or, a pheon azure. {B}
TALBOT, Earls of Shrewsbury. Gules, a lion rampant within a bordure engrailed Or. {B}
TECK, Dukes of. Lozengy bendwise [sometimes sinister] sable and Or. {T}
TEMPLARS, ORDER OF THE KNIGHTS. Per fess [sometimes misblazoned per chief] sable and argent, a cross gules. [Sometimes blazoned Argent, a chief sable and overall a cross gules.] {B}
TEUTONIC ORDER. Argent, a cross sable. {B}
TEUTONIC ORDER, ARMS OF THE HOCHMEISTER. Argent, on a cross sable a cross potent [later floretty] Or and overall on an inescutcheon Or an eagle displayed sable. {B}
TOLEDA, KINGDOM OF. Azure, a royal crown Or the cap gules. {T}
TOULOUSE, Counts of. Gules, a cross of Toulouse Or. {B}
TUDOR, OWEN. Gules, a chevron between three tilting helms argent. {B}
UNICORN TAPESTRIES, PATRON OF. Gules, on a bend azure three crescents argent. {T}
UNITED PROVINCES (Low Countries c. 1652). Gules, a lion rampant crowned Or maintaining a sword proper and a sheaf of seven arrows inverted argent tipped Or. {T}
UNITED STATES. Argent, six palets gules and a chief azure. {B}
VALENCE, Earl of Pembroke. Barruly argent and azure, an orle of martlets gules. {B}
VALENCIA, KINGDOM OF. Gules, a city argent. {T}
VASA. Per bend azure and gules, a bend argent surmounted by a vase Or.
VATICAN. Gules, in saltire two keys argent and Or handles bound with a cord gules wards enwrapped by the infibulae of a Papal tiara in chief argent garnished Or. [These are also the arms of the Papacy.] {B,L}
VERE, Earl of Oxford. Quarterly gules and Or, in canton a mullet argent. {B}
VISCONTI, Duke of Milan. Argent, a serpent glissant palewise vert [sometimes crowned Or] vorant an infant [sometimes demi-man] gules. {B,L}
WALES. Quarterly Or and gules, four lions passant gardant counterchanged. {B,L}
WARENNE, Earl of Surrey. Checky Or and azure. {B}
WARWICK, Earl of. Checky Or and azure, a chevron ermine. {B}
WASHINGTON, GEORGE. Argent, two bars and in chief three mullets gules. [Now used by the District of Columbia.] {L}
WESTPHALIA. Gules, a horse courant argent. {T}
WOLSEY, CARDINAL THOMAS, Chancellor of England. Sable, on a cross engrailed argent a lion passant gules between four leopard's faces azure and on a chief Or a rose between two Cornish choughs proper. {B}
WÜRTTEMBERG, Duke of. Or, in pale three stag's antlers fesswise sable. {B}
YALE UNIVERSITY. Azure, an open book argent charged with Hebrew letters sable. {B}
YORK, ARCHBISHOPRIC OF. Gules, two keys in saltire argent and in chief a crown Or. {B}
'IMPORTANT' BADGES
BOHUN, Earl of Hereford. Badge. A swan rousant wings addorsed argent ducally gorged and chained Or. [Also the badge of Henry V of England, but he got it from the Bohuns.] {B}
BOURCHIER. Badge. A Bourchier knot. {B}
BOWEN. Badge. A Bowen knot. {B}
BRITTANY. Badge. An ermine passant proper [i.e., argent marked sable]. {B}
CANADA. Badge. A maple leaf gules. {B}
EDWARD III OF ENGLAND. Badge. A sunburst Or issuant from clouds proper (i.e., mostly argent). {B}
EDWARD IV OF ENGLAND. Badge. A rose en soleil. [He used both the white rose of York and the red rose of Lancaster as the occasion demanded. The tinctureless form is from his Great Seal. {I would protect this only with the rose gules or argent.}] {B}
EDWARD THE BLACK PRINCE. Badge [his Shield for Peace]. Sable, three ostrich feathers argent [sometimes Or] each with its quill transfixing a scroll argent bearing the words ICH DIEN sable. {B}
EMPEROR OF JAPAN. Môn. Dark, a sixteen-petalled chrysanthemum light. {B}
ENGLAND. Badge. A Tudor rose. [When used as a Royal badge, the rose is crowned proper.] {B}
ENGLAND, HEIR APPARENT OF [not to be confused with the Prince of Wales]. Badge. Three ostrich feathers in pile argent enfiling a crown Or the quills surmounting [sometimes piercing, sometimes surmounted by] a scroll argent bearing the words ICH DIEN sable. {B}
FRANCE. Royal badge. A fleur-de-lis Or. {B}
GARTER, ORDER OF THE. Badge. A garter buckled in annulo azure garnished and charged with the words HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE Or. {B}
HOWARD, Duke of Norfolk. Badge. A sallet helm argent. {B}
INDIA. Badge. A lotus blossom affronty argent. {B}
IRELAND. Badge. A shamrock vert. [When used as a Royal badge, the shamrock is crowned proper.] {B}
IRELAND. Royal badge. A harp Or stringed argent crowned proper. {B}
LANCASTER, HOUSE OF. Badge. A rose gules {B}
MALTA, ORDER OF THE KNIGHTS OF. Badge. A Maltese cross argent. {B}
MARTIN LUTHER. Badge. Azure, a rose argent seeded of a heart gules charged with a Latin cross sable all within an annulet Or. {T}
MONTFORT, SIMON DE, Earl of Leicester. Badge. Per pale indented Or and gules. {B}
MOWBRAY, Duke of Norfolk. Badge. A lion rampant argent. {B}
PERCY, Earl of Northumberland. Badge. A crescent argent. {B}
PERCY, Earl of Northumberland. Badge. A shacklebolt argent. {B}
PLANTAGENET, HOUSE OF. Badge. A slip of broom plant (planta genista) proper. {B}
RICHARD I OF ENGLAND. Badge. An estoile between the horns of a crescent. {B}
RICHARD II OF ENGLAND. Badge. A hart lodged argent armed and ducally gorged [sometimes also chained] Or. {B}
RICHARD III OF ENGLAND. Badge. A boar passant argent. {B}
SAVOY, HOUSE OF. Badge. A Savoy knot. {B}
SCOTLAND. Badge. A thistle proper. [When used as a Royal badge, the thistle is crowned proper.] {B}
STAFFORD. Badge. A Stafford knot. {B}
STEWART. Badge. A thistle proper. {B}
TALBOT, Earl of Shrewsbury. Badge. A talbot passant argent. {B}
TEMPLARS, ORDER OF THE KNIGHTS. Badge. A Latin cross formy gules. {B}
TEUTONIC ORDER. Badge. A Latin cross formy sable fimbriated argent. {B}
TOKUGAWA. Môn. Dark, three hollyhock leaves in pall inverted tips to centre within and stems conjoined to an annulet light. {B}
TUDOR, HOUSE OF. Badge. A Tudor rose [i.e., a red and a white rose, one impaling, surmounting, quartering, or otherwise combined with the other]. {B}
TUDOR, HOUSE OF. Badge. A dragon passant gules. {B}
WAKE. Badge. A Wake knot. {B}
WALES. Badge. A leek proper. {B}
WARWICK. Badge. A bear statant erect argent muzzled and chained gules supporting a ragged staff argent. {B}
YORK, HOUSE OF. Badge. A rose argent. {B}
'IMPORTANT' FLAGS
ALBANIA, People's Republic of. Flag. Gules, a double-headed eagle displayed sable and in chief a mullet voided Or. {B}
ALGERIA. Flag. Per fess vert and argent, a mullet between the horns of a decrescent gules. {B}
ANDORRA. Flag. Per pale azure and gules, a pale Or. {B}
AUSTRALIA. Flag. Azure, a representation of the Southern Cross argent and a canton of the Union Jack and in dexter base a mullet of seven points argent. {L}
BELGIUM. Flag. Per pale sable and gules, a pale Or.
CANADA. Flag. Gules, on a pale argent a maple leaf gules. {B,L}
CORNWALL. Flag. Sable, a cross argent. {B}
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA. Battle flag. Gules, a saltire azure fimbriated and mullety argent. {T}
DENMARK. Flag [the Dannebrog]. Gules, a cross argent. {B,L}
EGYPT. Flag. Per fess gules and sable, on a fess argent an eagle displayed contourny Or. [The eagle is highly stylized, and some of the argent shows through. Its tail is surmounted by a pair of laurel sprigs in chevron inverted, and it holds in both claws a white scroll bearing Arabic writing in gold.] {T}
ENGLAND. Flag [the cross of St. George]. Argent, a cross gules. {B,L}
FINLAND. Flag. Argent, a cross bleu-celeste. {L}
FRANCE, Republic of. Flag. Per pale azure and gules, a pale argent. {B,L}
GERMANY. Flag. Per fess sable and Or, a fess gules. {B,L}
GERMANY (1935-45). Flag. Gules, on a plate a cross gammadion saltirewise sable. {T}
GREECE. Flag. Barry of nine azure and argent, on a canton azure a cross argent. {B,L}
HUNGARY, Republic of. Flag. Per fess gules and vert, a fess argent. {B,L}
ICELAND. Flag. Azure, a cross on a cross argent another gules. {L}
IRELAND (ancient). Flag. Argent, a saltire gules. {B}
IRELAND, Republic of. Flag. Per pale vert and tenné, a pale argent. {B,L}
ISRAEL. Flag. Argent, a Mogen David between two bars azure. {L}
ITALY. Flag. Per pale vert and gules, a pale argent. {L}
JAPAN. Flag. Argent, a torteau. {L}
LEBANON. Flag. Gules, on a fess argent a cedar proper. {L}
LIBYA. Flag. [Identical to that of EGYPT save for the details of the writing on the scroll.] {T}
LIECHTENSTEIN. Flag. Per fess azure and gules, in canton a crown Or. {T}
LUXEMBURG. Flag. Per fess gules and azure, a fess argent. {T}
MALTA. Flag. Per pale argent and gules. For augmentation, in canton the George Cross proper. {T}
MALTA, ORDER OF THE KNIGHTS OF. Flag. Gules, a Maltese cross argent. {B}
MONACO. Flag. Per fess gules and argent. {T}
MOROCCO. Flag. Gules, a mullet voided and interlaced vert. {T}
NETHERLANDS. Flag. Per fess gules and azure, a fess argent. {L}
NEW ZEALAND. Flag. Azure, in cross four mullets gules fimbriated argent and a canton of the Union Jack. {L}
NORWAY. Flag. Gules, on a cross argent another azure. {B,L}
POLAND. Flag. Per fess argent and gules. {B,L}
PORTUGAL. Flag. Gules, a tierce vert and overall on an armillary sphere Or an inescutcheon of the arms of Portugal. {B}
QUEBEC. Flag. Azure, a cross between four fleurs-de-lis argent. {L}
RED CRESCENT. Flag. Argent, a decrescent gules. {T}
RED CROSS. Flag. Argent, a cross couped gules. {T}
RUSSIA. Or, a double-headed eagle displayed armed crowned and maintaining an orb and sceptre Or. {L}
RUSSIAN FEDERATION. Flag. Per pale azure and gules, a pale Or. {L}
SAN MARINO. Flag. Per fess argent and bleu-celeste. {T}
SCOTLAND. Flag [the cross of St. Andrew]. Azure, a saltire argent. {B,L}
SLOVENIA. Gules, a patriarchal cross argent issuant from a mount of three peaks vert. {L}
SPAIN. Flag. Gules, a fess Or. {L}
SWEDEN. Flag. Azure, a cross Or. {B,L}
SYRIA. Flag. [Identical to that of EGYPT save for the details of the writing on the scroll.] {T}
TEMPLARS, ORDER OF THE KNIGHTS. Flag. Argent, a chief sable. {T}
TUNISIA. Flag. Gules, on a plate within the horns of a decrescent a mullet gules. {T}
TURKEY. Flag. Gules, between the horns of a decrescent a mullet argent. {L}
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS. Flag. Gules, in canton a hammer and sickle in saltire and to chief a mullet voided Or. {L}
UNITED KINGDOM. Flag [the Union Jack]. Azure, on a saltire argent another gyronny argent and gules and overall on a cross argent another gules. [A simpler but slightly inaccurate blazon is Azure, on a saltire argent another gules and overall on a cross argent another gules.] {B,L}
UNITED NATIONS. Flag. Azure, a north polar projection of the terrestrial globe within a laurel wreath argent. {T}
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Flag. Barry of thirteen gules and argent, a canton azure mullety argent. {L}
VATICAN. Flag. Per pale Or and argent, in sinister two keys in saltire argent and Or handles bound with a cord gules wards enwrapped by the infibulae of a Papal tiara in chief argent garnished Or. {B}
WALES. Flag. Per fess argent and vert, a dragon passant gules. {B,L}
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