r/heraldry

Full version of my personal CoA, made with coamaker.

as part of my illustrated history of the cats of my household, I gave them all coats of arms (along with one for the house itself)

I decided to go ahead and make a ficticious knightly order for my cats which have kidney diseases (a surprisingly common thing in cats), this is its coat of arms and medallion.

now when I draw the arms of the cats, I can add the medallion at the base!

art by me, https://bsky.app/profile/thecatfortress.bsky.social or anywhere here https://thecatfortress.carrd.co/

Hello, I was wondering to whom those crest belong to but could not find it from my research.
Anyone can help?
Thank you!

I' m new in heraldy and I would like to assume this Coat of Arms, designed by me, as my personal one. Is it correct?

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I'm designing some coats of arms for use in a potential medieval My Little Pony setting. A little silly perhaps, but I'm proud of what I have done, and am looking forward to showing it off soon. However, I'm not 100% satisfied with one of my designs, and would love some feedback on colors.

Very short version of the lore: Princess Celestia, the immortal god-queen of the setting, rule(d) the world with her sister, Princess Luna, until very recently, when Luna was banished under mysterious circumstances. Celestia is now trying to maintain control in the face of the power vacuum Luna left behind.

Celestia's and Luna's coats of arms are very simple, which most interpret as a statement of their own power and importance. Additionally, Celestia's close allies / vassals (including her adult son, whose arms are pictured) place a "banner" of her arms on their own to indicate their allegiance to her.

The three colors I'm experimenting with are Or (Pro: doesn't violate rule of tincture, con: very yellow), Argent (Pro: matches Celestia's own color scheme, acts as a nice contrast with Luna's arms, emphasizes her own divinity, con: violates rule of tincture, looks like something out of Dark Souls), and Bleu Celeste (not entirely sold on this one, but thought it might be nice, and mirrors the sky-blue flags used in the MLP show). Any thoughts on these?

I new to this and this is my first real attempt at a seriously personal CoA. Made using CoA Maker as i'm still learning to use Heraldicon.

What can I improve?

Hey, y'all, this is my attempt at a personal Coat of Arms. I meant it to be representative of both my surname and some family history.

So, the bridge is from a descendant of mine who was an architect and built several bridges, and it's also made of stone, which is a sort of canting on my name, which in latin translates to "of stone". The fire is somewhat just a flair, as I thought a bridge over a river of fire would look cool, but my surname derives from an older biblical name meaning torches.

Let me know what y'all think! Any feedback is welcome and appreciated.

Blazon I used: argent, a bridge of one arch sable, a base rayonny barry wavy gules and gold.

- What should we put for the municipality's coat of arms?

- We could put a dog carrying a loaf of bread.

- Sure, sounds good.

I recently purchased a sword that has this heraldry etched in it. I know it shows the marshaled arms of Norway, Denmark, and Sweden so it likely dates from somewhere between 1814 and 1905, but I didn’t know if there was a period in which this specific orientation was more popular. Thanks!

Bonjour à tous ,
J'ai une question concernant le cénotaphe de Bertrand Du Guesclin qui se trouve à Dinan.
Comme vous le voyez sur la photo, le monument présente des armoiries avec un cœur au centre, et plus bas, des armoiries traversées d'une bande diagonale. J'aimerais beaucoup savoir quelle est la signification exacte de ces armoiries barrées.
D'après certaines lectures, cela pourrait signifier l'extinction de sa lignée avec lui, mais il existe peut-être une autre explication (comme une brisure héraldique de branche cadette).
Est-ce qu'un spécialiste de cette période ou une personne calée en héraldique pourrait m'éclairer à ce sujet ?
Un grand merci d'avance pour vos lumières !

First time making a coat of arms does anyone have some guidance on what software and things i can change.

Hello! Thanks to your help I’ve been able to identify many of my seals without outside assistance. This one, however, has caught me up.

This is a Victorian era fob wax seal with a quadranted coat of arms, and a crest of a stag caboshed.

It’s difficult to make out the details on this one, but here is what I have observed:

Top left (repeated bottom right) griffin sejant on a gold background.

Top right (repeated bottom left) three (gold?) roundels separated by a central chevron. The chevrons appear to have a three-leafed plant repeated three times, although it is difficult to make out even under magnification.

In the center there is another griffin sejant, and in the upper center there is a hand.

I have not found any sources describing a griffin sejant, have I misidentified the attitude?

Any help with this seal would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

I inherited this painting of my family crest from my grandfather. On the back it had some writing about the history of our last name and a little not about how the label is for the first born. Now technically I am the first born of my father but my father has three older brothers. Am I still able to use the label or do I need a different symbol or variation? I’m also not sure I like the helmet on my design. Either way her is my version of the crest. I eventually want to put it on my breast plate for my Landskecht armor. I also want y’all’s opinion on the colors of my armor. Is the red and black good or would red and yellow look better?

A curious (and short-lived) practice in English heraldry. In the mid 16th to early 18th century, different names of colours were used for different hierarchical groups.
- Gentlemen, Esquires, Knights: Tinctures (Argent, Azure, Gules etc)
- Barons, Viscounts, Earls, Marquises, Dukes: Gemstones (Pearl, Sapphire, Ruby etc)
- Princes, Kings, Emperors: Planets (Moon, Jupiter, Mars etc)

Attached are examples from John Guillim's "A Display of Heraldry" (1659 edition). Guillim was Rouge Croix Pursuivant at the College of Arms.

The idea has continental roots and was popularised in English by Gerard Legh, The Accedens of Armory (1562), then Bossewell (1572) and Ferne (1586). Guillim's first edition of 1610 inherited it, and it lingers in the expanded editions up to the sixth of 1724. Some writers pushed it further still, matching tinctures to virtues, flowers, days of the week and the ages of man.

It was never used in grants or in the records of the College of Arms, and even at the time it attracted mockery. Guillim himself was lukewarm, and by the eighteenth century it was treated as a curiosity.

It dates from 1740