ANST - Principality Arms Discussion
Tim McDaniel
tmcd at crl.com
Sun Feb 22 20:54:30 PST 1998
> Crowned: I'll write another message about that.
Ah, yes, I owed y'all this.
I spoke to a highly-placed source near Laurel Queen of Arms
who wishes to remain anonymous.
I asked about whether a beast wearing a crown had a
significant-enough crown for the rules. Jael^H^H^H^H My
source checked the rules, which I had neglected to do, and
found
By Society convention, all branch arms must include one
or more laurel wreaths as a significant element in the
design. Kingdoms must also include a crown or coronet
in the design. Principalities may include a crown or
coronet, but are not required to do so.
Lau^H^H^H^H^H My informant pointed out that the *laurel
wreath* is required to be "significant", which means (by
precedent) it can't be held, worn, be a semy on a bordure,
or whatever. That's *not* said about a crown / coronet. In
her opinion, then, we could have a lion's head crowned, or a
full lion crowned. (Or perhaps a mouse dancing the Tarantella
on a demi-mini-coronetlette.)
Now mind you of several factors always to be kept in mind
when asking heraldic questions! My source was speaking
unofficially and off-the-cuff. There may be a precedent
neither of us has found. The SCA College of Arms commenters
might have something to say -- *they* might raise a ruckus
and induce Laurel to rule against the practice. There will
likely be a new Laurel (or three) before any p10y [1] gets
name and arms there, and who knows what *they* might think?
But it looks like a decent basis to start thinking about.
[1] p10y: "internationalization" is often written "i18n"
because people get tired of typing that long word.
Similarly, I coined "p10y" because I don't like to type
"principality". I'll use "p-word" too.
Daniel de Lincolia
--
Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: tmcd at crl.com; if that fail, tmcd at austin.ibm.com
is work address. tmcd at tmcd.austin.tx.us is wrong tool. Never use this.
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