Traditionally, a colonel in the British Army would likely be from a high-born, well-known family with documented heraldry and pedigree. |
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Now, heraldry is one of the quaint, meaningless traditions that so enthralls Yanqui Anglophiles like myself. |
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On top of it, the blue banner with golden lion as heraldry of Central Kingdom flew. |
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Some armigers are reluctant to use their heraldry as they feel that to do so may seem somewhat pretentious. |
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He is an authority on medieval heraldry and a professor of history at the Sorbonne. |
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Some of the designs were very simple and graphic, looking like the two-headed eagles of heraldry, and some were much more elaborate. |
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The martlet in French heraldry is called the merlette, represented by a swallow, depicted without legs, and later usually. without a beak. |
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Most of our evidence concerning the heraldry of twelfth-century baronial families comes from surviving seals. |
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The barry field and ermine lion are from the heraldry of the Cecils, and Hatfield has been the seat of this branch of the family ever since. |
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In English heraldry, we find examples of a lion passant on the upper trait of a barry field. |
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Greyhounds, red dragons and portcullises belonging to heraldry of various family branches finish off the decorations. |
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Period armory seems to have considered the billet equivalent to the delf and no difference is granted between them in Society heraldry. |
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Look for a simple text on heraldry by someone like A C Fox-Davies or J P Brooke-Little if you want to go into blazonry further. |
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When her studies took her into one of my fields, heraldry, she came to borrow books from my library. |
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The rose is the emblem of England and in heraldry is used as the mark of cadency for a seventh son. |
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A booklet explaining the hatchments in the church and introducing the study of heraldry more generally is currently in preparation. |
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Probably, the most famous knot used in English heraldry is what is referred to today as the carrick bend. |
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The design caused consternation among heraldists for some of its changes of the traditional papal heraldry. |
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Elizabeth herself received no formal education, other than in heraldry and how to smile while standing up for hours on end. |
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The first emblems in human history, Paradin argues, were preserved by heraldry and his own work recapitulates this allegorical genealogy. |
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The well-established obsession of late medieval chivalry with heraldry, orders and tournaments became overwhelmingly apparent. |
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She immediately saw her father sitting on his favorite chair, the one below the family heraldry, holding a goblet of blood-red wine in his hand. |
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Mance, a direct descendant of the last leader of the Knights Templar, has heraldry featuring a golden tree surrounded by 12 blue apples. |
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At the Milanese court, Leonardo witnessed the use of visual puns in heraldry for Ludovico Sforza, Beatrice d' Este, and her sister, Isabella. |
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Her descent partly explains her son's baronial aspirations and his love of his personal heraldry. |
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The east and south walls are intricately carved with religious symbols and secular heraldry. |
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On a far lighter note, I just love the pomp and ceremony of all the military parades, heraldry, and regalia. |
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These three greatest of events in the history of humanity are alone worthy of such celebrations and glorious heraldry. |
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A few weeks since, the young nobleman would have watched in admiration all that magnificent heraldry of the pomp of the storm. |
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The swan is found in heraldry as a charge, a crest, supporters, and as a badge. |
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Down the street, in the former Kildare Street Club, there is a fine display of Irish coats of arms and heraldry. |
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The lowest tier is decorated with royal heraldry and with open books, presumably once with painted inscriptions. |
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Both ecclesiastical and secular patronage are documented through portraiture and more emblematically through heraldry or inscription. |
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There is no evidence, other than that within panels of the window itself, for the problems posed by the later incorporation of the heraldry of bishop and chapter within it. |
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This is shown by its serving the hierarchies of many disparate cultures in their heraldry, emblazonments, and their signals of rank and allegiance. |
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Martlets do not have any strong meaning in heraldry, but some have commented that the bird, which is similar to the swift, connoted speed or swiftness. |
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In German and Scottish armory the inescutcheon bears the symbols of the paternal side, but in English heraldry it is used to carry the arms of an heiress wife. |
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Last year, Susan conducted a three week lecture tour in America to tell the story of Irish heraldry and genealogy and spoke in Boston, New York, Minneapolis and Chicago. |
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The design also preserves the Army's historic heraldry and lineage. |
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Identification was by inscription, heraldry and, later, a rebus. |
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In ancient heraldry a bendlet azure on a coat was a mark of cadency. |
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Medieval heraldry often showed an elephant with a castle on its back. |
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Or are they, as I suspect, just trying to be tough, butch and militaristic by using a symbol that is increasingly finding its way onto military insignias and heraldry? |
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In addition, there was his deep understanding of imagery, traditional emblems, heraldry and associations with the paintings of the period of the work being examined. |
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You will use the knowledge of heraldry and blazonry taught to you at great pains by your father's herald to identify other characters and know them for friend or foe. |
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The themes of heraldry, religion, astronomy, astrology and the natural world are expressed in murals, mosaics, stained glass, intricate woodwork and stone and marble carvings. |
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The men who opposed them wore no markings or heraldry to identify them, but their equipment was of a consistently higher quality than would be expected among brigands. |
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They are usually found statant affronty in both SCA and Period heraldry. |
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Indeed, by the 16th century, emblems were adopted by intellectuals and merchants who had no heraldry of their own. |
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Antelopes are a common symbol in heraldry, though they occur in a highly distorted form from nature. |
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Wolf heads are common in Scottish heraldry, particularly in the coats of Clan Robertson and Skene. |
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The wolf is the most common animal in Spanish heraldry, and is often depicted as carrying a lamb in its mouth, or across its back. |
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Primroses also appear as a charge in heraldry, for example the coat of arms of the Earl of Rosebery. |
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For most of its history, the Byzantine Empire did not know or use heraldry in the West European sense. |
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The horse frequently appears in coats of arms in heraldry, in a variety of poses and equipment. |
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Since then, the portcullis has been a moderately common motif of English heraldry, especially that heraldry dating from the Tudor period. |
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Which mythical creature, used as a symbol in heraldry, was half eagle, half lion? |
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However, this curriculum included auxiliary historical disciplines such as palaeography, heraldry, numismatology etc. |
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Rouge Dragon Pursuivant is a specialist in heraldry at the College of Arms. |
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Flags developed from coats of arms, and the arts of vexillology and heraldry are closely related. |
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The French system of heraldry greatly influenced the British and Western European systems. |
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Other countries such as Belarus or Tajikistan have retained their communist coats of arms or at least kept some of the old heraldry. |
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Other conditions discussed involved the joint use of English and French heraldry by Mary, Queen of Scots. |
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Mary and Francis II of France should not use the arms and signs of England and Ireland in their heraldry. |
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The wildcat is considered an icon of the Scottish wilderness, and has been used in clan heraldry since the 13th century. |
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As with the bear, Scottish and Welsh heraldry displays the boar's head with the neck cropped, unlike the English version, which retains the neck. |
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In the tradition of Scottish heraldry, use of the banner is not restricted to the sovereign. |
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Finally, the Lord Lyon King of Arms is the sole judge in the Lyon Court, which determines cases relating to heraldry. |
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The High Court of Chivalry is a civil court in England and Wales with jurisdiction over cases dealing with heraldry. |
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It is likely that this practice was a factor in the emergence of hereditary heraldry in western Europe in the 12th century. |
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When heraldry developed in the Middle Ages, not much was known about the biology of the dolphin and it was often depicted as a sort of fish. |
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Traditionally, the stylised dolphins in heraldry still may take after this notion, sometimes showing the dolphin skin covered with fish scales. |
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A notable feature of the arms are the supporters, which in heraldry are rarely granted to universities. |
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The Kingdom of Mercia predated the emergence of heraldry, so there is no authentic Mercian heraldic device. |
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The talbot dog comes from the heraldry of the Talbot family, Marcher Lords of Shrewsbury and also from that of Viscount Hereford. |
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She studied arithmetic, canon and civil law, classical literature, genealogy and heraldry, history, philosophy, religion, and theology. |
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The design of the trophy is based on the heraldry of Three Lions that is associated with English football. |
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English heraldry flourished as a working art up to around the 17th century, when it assumed a mainly ceremonial role. |
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It was during the reign of Edward III that the crest began to be widely used in English heraldry. |
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Animal supporters, standing on either side of the shield to hold and guard it, first appeared in English heraldry in the 15th century. |
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However, heraldry has never been restricted to the noble classes in most countries, and being armigerous does not necessarily demonstrate nobility. |
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Deer appear in art from Palaeolithic cave paintings onwards, and they have played a role in mythology, religion, and literature throughout history, as well as in heraldry. |
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The word talopus and calopus, from Latin, came to be used in heraldry. |
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According to the former Lord Lyon, Sir Thomas Innes of Learney, a clan is a community that is distinguished by heraldry and recognised by the Sovereign. |
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In heraldry the unicorn is best known as the symbol of Scotland. |
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In heraldry and heraldic vexillology, a blazon is a formal description of a coat of arms, flag or similar emblem, from which the reader can reconstruct the appropriate image. |
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However, the arms are not known to have ever been the subject of an official grant of arms, and depart from several of the rules and conventions of heraldry. |
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The current coat of arms was developed following the mergers with Queen Elizabeth College and Chelsea College in 1985 and incorporates aspects of their heraldry. |
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The ratio of the width of the bars of the saltire in relation to the width of the field is specified in heraldry in relation to shield width rather than flag width. |
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Royal emblems depicting lions were first used by the Norman dynasty, later a formal and consistent English heraldry system emerged at the end of the 12th century. |
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The law of arms is part of the law in countries which regulate heraldry, although not part of common law in England and in countries whose laws derive from English law. |
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As a generality, most nobles, whether titled or not, have coats of arms, hence the widely held perception of heraldry as an aristocratic trapping. |
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Dolphins are sometimes used as symbols, for instance in heraldry. |
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As well as being used in royal heraldry, the badge is sometimes used to symbolise Wales, particularly in Welsh rugby union and Welsh regiments of the British Army. |
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