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	Armory of Flemish Nobles of the 16th Century
		Gules, a chevron ermine between a quarter or charged with a lion rampant sable armed and langued gules, an inescutcheon barry of eight argent and azure charged with a lion rampant gules, and a duck statant argent.
		Or, a lion rampant sable, armed and langued, overall a label gules.
		Gules, a lion rampant argent armed and langued or, a label of three points azure.
	www.s-gabriel.org /docs/flem-heraldry.html

	glossary_l.html
		In heraldry, a Lion in side view, having one forepaw raised and the head facing the observer.
		In English heraldry a Lion passant Gardant or is generally blazoned as “a Lion of England.”
		The Lion is the most popular beast in heraldry.
	heraldry.lordkyl.net /glossary/glossary_l.html

	Armory of Flemish Nobles of the 16th Century
		Color on color (mostly blue on red, mostly occurs with bends and labels) and metal on metal (mostly bordures and labels) occur in Flemish heraldry with some frequency.
		Quarterly, or a lion rampant sable, armed and langued gules, and barry of eight argent and azure, a lion rampant gules, an inescutcheon gules charged with a chevron ermine.
		Azure, a chevron argent, overall a quarter argent charged witha lion rampant sable armed and langued gules.
	www.s-gabriel.org /docs/flem-heraldry.html

	Armory of Flemish Nobles of the 16th Century
		Argent, a fess gules and in chief a lion passant vert.
		Azure, a lion rampant or debruised by a bend gules.
		Argent, three lions vert armed and langued or within a bordure wavy gules.
	www.s-gabriel.org /docs/flem-heraldry.html

	2prince
		Traditionally in heraldry, the lion has represented England, however Prince Charles' heraldic representation is totally unique in history even differing from that of his mother's, Queen Elizabeth, whose lion has the typical three claws per foot.
		Other members of the British royal family have labels that have more than three descending "horns." There are a total of five eldest-son labels on the coat of arms: on the left-side lion, the head lion, the unicorn, the red dragon, and at the top of the center shield where 10 lions are depicted.
		Note the chain leading from the unicorn and connecting it to the base of the arms (directly above the red dragon.) In heraldry this chain functions as a "restrainer" (cf.
	www.angelfire.com /journal2/ck15endtimecolumn/et6.html

	May 1984 LoAR
		Vert, a chimera passant with a lion's body, a dragon's tail, a lion's head, a goat's head, and a dragon's head reguardant, Or.
		Erminois, three lion's heads erased to sinister gules.
		Vert, a wolf's head caboshed maintaining in its mouth a broken sword blade, point to sinister, argent and in chevron inverted two broken swords inverted proper.
	www.sca.org /heraldry/loar/1984/05/lar.html

	Gryphons In Heraldry
		In fact, the Gryphon is the most widely used "monster" in heraldry, just as the lion is the most widely used beast and the eagle the most widely used bird.
		(Heraldry itself is presumed to have begun in the mid-Twelfth Century.) In fact, the Gryphon may have been used by the Redvers (Reviers, Rivers) family before that.
		It is always an eagle / lion hybrid, with the forepart, including the forepaws, like that of an eagle, and the hindpart like that of the lion.
	www.gryphonpages.com /heraldry/heraldry.htm (1417 words)

	Jewish Heraldry
		The eagle alluded to Austria, the lion to Hesse-Kassel, and the leopard to England: the College said it was not in its power to use charges from other sovereign countries' arms.
		Thus, this page is an illustration of how heraldry came to be adopted by Jews, and enriched their cultural tradition: thus the lion of Judah often takes the appearance of a heraldic lion rampant.
		Indeed, it is a striking counter-example to the misconception that heraldry was ever the preserve of the nobility or the knights, that Jews have been using coats of arms as far back as the 14th century, not only privately but also in their official dealings with Gentiles (e.g., seals on legal documents).
	www.heraldica.org /topics/jewish.htm (3843 words)

	West Highland Heraldry Page 4, The Heraldry Society of Scotland - UK Heraldry
		But three 17c examples in fact show the Macleod chiefs using West Highland heraldry; a cup from Duirinish which belonged to Sir Rory Mor and a gourd at Dunvegan display quartered coats where the castle and the stag's head are joined by the lion and the galley.
		But they did have doubts, as a document at Inveraray reveals: there Locheil's seal of 1678 is a quartered one with the barry coat in the third quarter, the first, second and fourth displaying a Galley, a Hand and a Lion Rampant respectively.
		This was kept as his device by Lochbuie whose arms of 1672 are recorded in Lyon Office where it appears as a quarter along with the Galley, the Lion, the Salmon and Hand holding the Cross.
	www.heraldry-scotland.co.uk /westhigh4.html (837 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: Heraldry (S)
		In heraldry, the term salient refers to a leaping position such as for example a lion salient - a leaping lion.
		In heraldry, a saltire is a Saint Andrew's cross, or a cross in the form of an X, being one of the honorable ordinaries.
		In heraldry, the spread eagle is a figure of an eagle with outspread wings, used as the national emblem of the USA and often used as a device on military ornaments, and the like.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /UI.HTM (583 words)

	Abatements and Augmentations of Honor
		Instead, English augmentations could be cantons, piles, inescutcheons, or flaunches, usually charged with the royal arms, or, in one case when an inescutcheon was used, a coat of arms derived from the royal arms: quarterly 1 and 4 azure a fleur de lys or, 2 and 3, gules a lion passant regardant or.
		In Castile, the augmentation would often be a bordure of gules, semy of castles or, or a bordure gobony argent a lion rampant purpure and gules a castle or.
		Abatements and augmentations of honor are certain special charges that were placed on someone's coat of arms to either reward or punish that person for that person's good or bad deeds.
	pages.ripco.net /~clevin/abate.html (583 words)

	Heraldry of Stephens
		Chequy or and azure on a canton gules a lion rampant argent.
		Vert a lion rampant or, in chief three mullets of the last.
		Vert a griffin passant or a chief ermine.
	www.dragonspan.net /stephenshouse/heraldbu.htm (583 words)

	Eagle (heraldry) - Enpsychlopedia
		Eagles are often (outside of Italian heraldry) drawn with the beak, tongue and talons in a different colour to the rest of the body.
		The eagle was clearly derived from the Roman eagle and continues to be important in the heraldry of the modern descendants of the constituents of the Empire.
		Eagles are used in heraldry both as a charge (something drawn on the shield) or as a supporter (something holding the shield up).
	www.grohol.com /psypsych/Eagle_%28heraldry%29 (1802 words)

	Pimbley's Dictionary of Heraldry
		Leopard - The title of one of the heralds under Henry V. Leo-parde - "A lion as a leopard." The early heralds seem to have gotten the lion confused with the leopard, and when describing him in any attitude except passant he was leo-pardé.
		Bear - The bear is one of the beasts of heraldry.
		It is sometimes the mark of a younger branch of a family; and, again, when charged, may refer to maternal descent, especially in ancient heraldry.
	www.pictavia.org /library/heraldrydictionary.html (18611 words)

	her-list.txt
		Crest: On a baron's helm, out of a baron's coronet, a lion saliant azure, armed and langued Or, holding in the fore paws a sword erect sable, bladed Or seme of crosses patte of the third.
		Crest: The stern of a Spanish man-of-war proper thereon innscribed "San Josef." Supporters (granted November 9): A sailor of the period, fully armed and holding a Commodore's flag and a palm branch, and a lion holding a broken flagstaff in its mouth with a Spanish flag.
		Crest: Out of a ducal coronet, a crow rising wings elevated and addorsed sable.
	www.pvv.ntnu.no /~bcd/rolemaster/novi/her-list.txt (18606 words)

	Family Crest and Coat of Arms: Parts of a Coat of Arms
		The oldest documented example of a coat of arms borne on a shield is where King Henry I of England is said to have bestowed on his son-in-law, Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, in 1127 A.D.: the azure shield bore four gold lions rampant.
		Crest: "A lion's head erased azure langued gules." (A lion's head cut off at the neck with a flourish, in blue with a red tongue.)
		One historian (Beryl Platts, author of Origins of Heraldry) notes that "family identification" was practiced in northern Europe even before the Norman Conquest, and she believes that all heraldry in England is the derivation of the heraldic devices brought by the families who accompanied William the Conqueror.
	www.fleurdelis.com /coatofarms.htm (1107 words)

	2298.txt
		Placing the lion on a chief would also be more typical of the heraldry of western Europe [4].
		Barry fields, saltires, garbs, and lions passant are all found in Flemish heraldry of your period.
		Barry gules and Or, on a bend argent a lion passant gules.
	www.panix.com /~gabriel/public-bin/showfinal.cgi/2298.txt (1107 words)

	Heraldry
		Crest - On the Vance armorial, the crest is a Lion Rampart (a rampaging lion), also the symbol of Scotland.
		The Shield is distinguished by certain heraldic colours called Tinctures, separated by division lines, and charged with a variety of animals, real or fabulous, instruments, and other objects, which themselves bear the designation of charges.
		The Bend- This represents a shoulder-belt or scarf.
	home.gci.net /~airloom/heraldry.htm (1477 words)

	Glossary
		Lion Most frequently found beast in heraldry; occurs in many positions, of which the most usual are rampant and passant.
		Leopard Term used in medieval heraldry for lion passant guardant.
		Crest heraldic term, in the time of the "living heraldry" it meant a decoration of the great helm usually, but not exclusively, bearing part of the coat-of-arms of its wearer.
	www.ceu.hu /medstud/manual/SRM/gloss.htm (1477 words)

	CIVIC HERALDRY OF ENGLAND AND WALES-LEICESTERSHIRE
		The gold lion, also from the Coalville crest, is that of the Beaumont family and its collar is formed by the gold roundels on red of the Lords Zouch, seen in the arms of Ashby de la Zouch RDC.
		The black maunche or sleeve is from the heraldry of the Hastings family.
		The black maunch or sleeve, common to the arms of Coalville UDC, Ashby de la Zouch RDC and Castle Donnington RDC, is from the heraldry of the Hastings family.
	www.civicheraldry.co.uk /leics.html (1820 words)

	Jewish Heraldry
		Thus, this page is an illustration of how heraldry came to be adopted by Jews, and enriched their cultural tradition: thus the lion of Judah often takes the appearance of a heraldic lion rampant.
		Indeed, it is a striking counter-example to the misconception that heraldry was ever the preserve of the nobility or the knights, that Jews have been using coats of arms as far back as the 14th century, not only privately but also in their official dealings with Gentiles (e.g., seals on legal documents).
		This page does not describe "Jewish heraldry" as some distinct species of heraldry: although there are charges, such as stars of David, Jew's hats and menorahs which specifically refer to the Jewishness of the bearer, Jews used heraldry the same way others did.
	www.heraldica.org /topics/jewish.htm (1820 words)

	Armory of Flemish Nobles of the 16th Century
		Vert is much more common in Flemish heraldry than in French or Spanish heraldry, but purpure is unknown.
		Quarterly, argent, a lion rampant que ue-fourche gules armed, langued, and crowned or, and gules, a mullet of ten points argent.
		Argent, a lion rampant gules armed, langued, and crowned or, a label azure.
	www.s-gabriel.org /docs/flem-heraldry.html (1820 words)

	Chapter 3: Designing An Air Force Emblem
		Heraldry divides colors into metals -- gold (yellows) and silver (white, silver gray) -- and colors (reds, blues, greens).
		In heraldry, the smallest change in the position of a symbolic element (or "charge") in the design changes the entire arms.
		The meaning of a coat of arms with a lion in chief (at the top) differs essentially from one with a lion in base (at the bottom), and the symbol depicting the organization's mission or history faces to the right side (dexter) never to the left side (sinister) of the bearer.
	www.au.af.mil /au/afhra/wwwroot/heraldry/chapter_three.html (1218 words)

	Polish Nobility and Its Heraldry: An Introduction
		heraldry) is suggested when the crest consists of an object facing to the dexter side of the shield, i.e., 'demi-lion rampant' or a 'wing'.
		In the Polish heraldry, some princely families did not use the crest and instead opted to rest the prince's crown straight against the helmet, (today this is considered a bad heraldry) or as a coronet of rank on the manteau.
		Another peculiarity of the Polish heraldry was the custom that all legitimate children of a nobleman, both male and female could inherit their father's coat of arms, (without any alterations, i.e., marks of differencing, and cadency- called brisures in French) together with all his privileges as a noble.
	www.szlachta.org /heraldry.htm (16740 words)

	Early Heraldry
		It is frequently represented with the tail of a lion, horns, and for its fore-legs the claws of an eagle.
		Heraldry in film is essential if the audience is to intuitively embrace the energy of the story and each individual in the development of character.
		No instance occurs to me in which the panther figures as a charge in British heraldry, and the panther is a supporter, in the few cases in which it is met with, is certainly not the actual animal, inasmuch as it is invariable found flammant, i.e.
	donnakova.tripod.com /Zep/EarlyHeraldry.html (966 words)

	Rafal T. Prinke - Hermetic Heraldry
		While such creatures as the dove or the lion are often found in symbolic and alegorical pictures, the eagle seems to be absent from them but is one of the most important symbol of both heraldry and hermetism.
		European heraldry, as we know it, is the creation of the chivalric society of the early 12th century and therefore it is obvious that if any hermetic symbolism can be discerned in it, it must have preceded heraldry itself and not the other way round.
		HERMETIC HERALDRY which includes (a) the influence of early hermetic ideas on the developement of the heraldic system of coat-of-arms symbolism and (b) the conscious use of hermetic symbols and emblems in later heraldic designs in order to show the owner's interests or make the arms "speak".
	www.levity.com /alchemy/hermhera.html (3361 words)

	20languedocroussillon.htm
		This is a rare use of the griffin in French civic heraldry, but there was no information about its origin.
		Per pale argent a crown of laurel vert a chief gules three mullets or and gules a lion rampant argent seven plates in orle.
		The pall is relatively rare in French heraldry, but the lozengy almost certainly identifies the arms as having been ascribed by the Armorial Général.
	www.briantimms.com /chf/20languedocroussillon.htm (3361 words)

	Heraldry - MSN Encarta
		Symbolic and ornamental figures similar to those of heraldry have been used as tribal or national emblems since ancient times; for example, the Romans used the eagle, and the French employed first the lion and later the fleur-de-lis.
		Attesting to the continued interest in heraldry was the establishment, in 1980, of the Herald's Museum in the Tower of London; the collection of heraldic objects traces the history of English heraldry from the 12th century to the present.
		Heraldry, originally, the many duties and functions of a herald or officer at arms, including the devising and granting of armorial bearings, or coats of arms.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761565530/Heraldry.html (873 words)

	Arthurian Heraldry
		heraldry he is given Argent a lion and a peacock gules or argent three lions gules.
		The two most important recent works on Arthurian heraldry are:
		heraldry he bears Sable a chief argent, also canting (chief pronounced ché).
	privatewww.essex.ac.uk /~colinb/a_heraldry.html (873 words)

	A Collection of Period German Heraldry (1400-1600) for SCA Heralds
		Argent, on a mount vert a lion rampant sable (1470)
		Field only heraldry is common, especially in gules, argent, sable, and or.
		Split fields are more common than in Anglo-French Heraldry.
	www.s-gabriel.org /docs/sturm.html (873 words)

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