[Bryn-gwlad] War Company Heraldry

[Susan Froebel]

The first badge listed, "Gules, on a saltire Or two halberds sable, in     chief a mullet of five greater and five lesser points argent" was registered to be the Bryn Gwlad war badge, though it has been a long time since we used it.  It used to be attributed as the war badge in the Armorial (similar to the designation for the BG Guard badge), but seems to have lost that over time.

The second "no purpose stated" badge "(Fieldless) On a halberd's head reversed sable     a mullet of five greater and five lesser points Or" is the populace badge and may be worn by any member of the Barony unless our leaders deem otherwise.

I do know the reason that the war badge is on a gules field (and the guard badge has a gules chief):  B/B Varg's and Seanna's favorite colors were black and white (sable and argent).  Their successors were trying to add additional colors to the Bryn Gwlad palette.

I do believe we went to war once long ago with the war badge, but honestly can't remember for sure.  It's definitely a lot more complex than the populace badge.  I think combining the BG populace badge with the Ansteorran populace badge would look really spiffy and is close to what the tabards currently use.  Since the populace badge is fieldless, we can display it on either argent or Or.

Just an opinion.  Sorry for the late response.  I got behind on my correspondence due to illness.

Rhiannon
Heraldic Fossil

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> Message: 7
> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:27:19 -0500 (CDT)
> From: tmcd at panix.com
> Subject: Re: [Bryn-gwlad] Lets talk War Company
> 
> In heraldic terms, as I understand marshalling, it means that everyone
> in the warband is the king of Ansteorra and is married to the baroness
> of Bryn Gwlad (or queen and baron).  Or, at best, they're all heralds
> for the aforesaid Mr. King and Mrs. Baroness, heavily armed in
> defiance of all the right usages of heraldry.
> 
> The armory that the barony has registered:
> 
>     Arms: Argent, on a bend sinister between two compass stars of ten
>     points each environed of a laurel wreath sable a halberd Or.
>     (March 1980)
> 
>     Designated for the Order of the Halberd: Sable, issuant from
>     dexter base a demi-halberd bendwise sinister Or.  (March 1980)
> 
>     No purpose listed: Gules, on a saltire Or two halberds sable, in
>     chief a mullet of five greater and five lesser points argent.
>     (July 1984)
> 
>     Designated for the Baronial Guard: Or, two halberds in saltire
>     sable, on a chief gules a mullet of five greater and five lesser
>     points argent.  (January 1987)
> 
>     Designated for the Order of the Dreigiau Bryn: Or, a wyvern erect
>     gules maintaining a halberd palewise sable, overall a
>     triple-peaked mountain, issuant from base, vert.  (January 1989)
> 
>     No purpose listed: (Fieldless) On a halberd's head reversed sable
>     a mullet of five greater and five lesser points Or.
>     (December 1990)
> 
> (Of course, any of those could be repurposed for a badge for some
> other purpose, except the arms (due to the laurel wreath), and nothing
> stops Bryn Gwlad from registering something else.)
> 
> The medieval mind often had a cheerful disregard for ambiguity, seeing
> no problems in using "the court of our lord king Henry" to refer
> variously to permanent justices at Westminster, the exchequer
> sometimes at Westminster, various justices riding hither and yon on
> circuit, the king in his own person off hunting and holding court
> somewhere else, ...  Or Lord Foo never had a formal office and you
> wouldn't think anything of him, until you see the records that show
> him as justice on eyre in three counties, a few months later stocking
> royal castles in Brittany, then being a seneschal in the Norman Vexin
> and throwing back French raids, then in Edinburgh negotiating with the
> king of Scotland, then back with Henry II in Leinster, ...
> 
> So I might have the notion that it's all the Baronial Guard or all War
> Company, where some of them you tend to see attend the baron and
> baroness at events, some of them fight on the chivalric field, some of
> them fight on the rapier field, some shoot bows, some you see do
> several of those, et cetera.  But such a notion would get me so very
> glared at, so I dare not mention it.
> 
> Danielis Lincolia

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