Yagowe's Words - A Caerlaverock Roll of Arms

October Update – Full List

By yagowe October 21, 2024Armorial Updates1 Comment

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

By yagowe October 20, 2024Armorial Updates

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

By yagowe December 7, 2023Uncategorized

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

By yagowe September 16, 2023Uncategorized

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

By yagowe May 19, 2023Uncategorized

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

By yagowe May 12, 2023Armorial Updates

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

By yagowe May 10, 2023Armorial Updates

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

By yagowe December 5, 2022Uncategorized

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…

June 2022 Armorials Update

By yagowe June 19, 2022Armorial Updates

From Wappenbuch des André de Rineck, 1473 German (Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB), Cod. 3336) 31 new additions since last month's update, bringing the total to 632. Great Britain and Ireland…

Rainbows in Period Heraldry

By yagowe June 8, 2022Uncategorized1 Comment

Rainbows are a reasonably rare charge in pre-17th C armory overall (I’ve found none in French or Iberian armory, for example), but they show up in German armory regularly. Every…