Intro to rules and ideas of Heraldry - Aimed at year 7/8 Vector graphics project

1. Coat of Arms of the Earls of Dundee
Escutcheon
Supporters
Helm
CrestMotto
The Full Achievement

2. Escutcheons
100s of different Shield shapes.
Heraldic Heiresses (Ladies) use
a “Lozenge”.
Arms of Margaret Thatcher

3. Tincture (Colour)
2 Metals
Argent
Or
5 Colours
Vert
SableAzure
Gules Purpure
Never place
 Colour on Colour
 Metal on Metal
Rule of Tincture
Arms of Kingdom of Jerusalem
Breaks Rule of Tincture

4. Ordinaries A geometric shape on the escutcheon
St. George:
Argent a cross
gules

5. Divisions Splitting the Escutcheon into sections
Per Fess Per Pale Per Bend Quarterly Per
Chevron
Per
Saltire
Hogwarts Coat of
Arms, divided
quarterly.
Also uses an extra
divisionfor the H
called an inescutcheon
of pretence
Arms of City of
Bulawayoin
Zimbabwe,
divided per
chevron
Per chevron
Gules and
Argent in chief
three rock
rabbits courant
(Iimbela) Or and
in base a cross-
crosslet fitche of
the first

6. Charges Crosses
There are
100’s of
different
types of
crosses!

7. Charges Animals / Birds
RichardI
(Lionheart):
Gules three lions
passant guardant
in pale Or armed
and langued Azure
US Presidential Seal, Escutcheon
supported by:
An American eagle displayed holding in
his dexter talon an olive branch and in his
sinister a bundle of thirteen arrows all
proper, and in his beak a white scroll
inscribed E PLURIBUS UNUM sable

8. Charges Plants
Canadian Royal Coat of
arms has an old UK
Royal coat of arms
above:
the third division being
Argent three maple
leaves conjoined on one
stem proper
Tudor Rose
French Royal
Arms:
Azure three
fleur-de-lis Or
Eton College Arms (Beneath
a chief per pale);
On a field sable three lily-
flowers argent

9. Charges Inanimate Objects
Duke of Edinburgh,
4th Quarter:
Argent, upon a rock
Proper a castle
triple towered Sable,
masoned Argent,
windows, port,
turret-caps and
vanes Gules
Spanish Guardia Civil
(police force) uses a
crown (referring to
the king), a sword
(symbolic of military
purpose) and a fasce
(symbolic of judicial
purpose)