Armorials Update – Germany/Austria/Switzerland/Poland
There are a lot of additions and changes to this section. First up, 21 new armorials have been added, probably half of which I found just this week while working…
Armorials Update – France
Most of the France updates were fixes to broken links, but there is a bit of new content. A couple sources that were in black and white are now in…
Armorials Update – Great Britain and Ireland
I've got a lot of updates to my list of armorials to do - both new sources to add, and broken links to fix. Rather than trying to do it…
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…