Armorial Palettes II
Because of the variation in the evenness of pigments and photo quality these are inherently approximate. My admittedly unscientific method was to sample pixels in a section of tincture until…
More Rapid Than Eagles
Now, Dasher! 1 Now, Dancer! 2 Now, Prancer 3 And Vixen! 4 On, Comet! 5 On, Cupid! 6 On, Donder 7 And Blitzen! 8 To the top of the porch!…
October Update – Full List
Great Britain and Ireland Recueil de généalogies anglaises, accompagnées d'armoiries, 16th C English (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des Manuscrits. Anglais 33) https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10867319q/ Arfbeisiau teuluoedd Cymru, c 1560-1575 Welsh…
October 2024 Armorials Update
It's been a while since I've managed to update, but I've been collecting armorials the whole time, and they've now been added to the collection here. This puts the collection…
The Arms of Judah Maccabee
In the 15th and 16th centuries, it was common for armorials to include the arms of notable people from around the known world both past and present. The fact that…
How to Find Specific Charges
There are times where you might want to find examples of a certain charge in period heraldry; you may want to know whether a certain charge was used at all,…
A Few Examples of Sunflowers in 17th Century Armory
The earliest known heraldic sunflower was granted in 1614 by William Segar, Garter King of Arms, to Aurelia Florio, daughter of author John Florio: Azure, "an Heliotrope or Turnsol" Or…
New Additions: 1601-1650
After my last update I had a request to add a new page that would hold all the armorial sources I've found that don't fit within the 16th C and…
May 2023 Armorials Update
I just finished adding 22 new sources to my lists of armorials, bringing the total up to 654. The full list is at the end of the post, but here…
Small Update
There haven't been many updates recently, but I do keep looking for new sources to add to the Armorials collection (I've dug up enough that there's a bit of diminishing…