Heraldry display

Coat of Arms of the Earls of Dundee

Escutcheon

Supporters

Helm

CrestMotto

The Full Achievement

Escutcheons100s of different Shield shapes.Heraldic Heiresses (Ladies) use a “Lozenge”.

Arms of Margaret Thatcher

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

Ordinaries A geometric shape on the escutcheon

St. George:Argent a cross gules

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 division for the H called an inescutcheon of pretence

Arms of City of Bulawayo in 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

Charges Crosses

There are 100’s of different types of crosses!

Charges Animals / Birds

Richard I (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

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

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 GulesSpanish Guardia Civil (police force) uses a crown (referring to the king), a sword (symbolic of military purpose) and a fasce (symbolic of judicial purpose)