[ANSTHRLD] three crescents argent

[Tim McDaniel]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, doug bell <magnus77840 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >Per saltire sable and vert, three crescents argent?
> Crescents are used a lot in Islamic and Iberian heraldry I have seen
> but Daniel can tell you more about that.

Crescents were common enough in England to be the the mark of cadency
of a second son.

Brault's _Aspilogia III: the Rolls of Arms of Edward I_ has a column
and a half, which is not bad -- "one eagle" has about the same number
of coats.  The usual pattern is
    Tincture1 [sometimes crusilly], three crescents tincture2.

There's four cases of one crescent, four of six, one of semy.

Randomly flipping thru, I see "a bend between six crescents", "a
chevron between three crescents", ...

Vert was pretty uncommon in Europe (low in the single digits of
percentages), except for trees and hills (and thus in Hungarian
armory, where they had a *lot* of vert trimounts on azure).  "Per
saltire" did not occur in Anglo-Normal armory, at least as a plain
field in Aspilogia III.  When armory had one metal and two colors, one
of the colors tended to be gules, because it has the best contrast
with other colors.

However, if they did one thing weird in a coat, everything else is
dead normal, so it's a plausible enough early-period style design.

Since armory started in northern France and England, any coat that's
plausible there is portable to about any time afterwards and place
anywhere else.

In short, pretty decent.  Certainly well within the registerable zone.

If you want bonus early-period points, you can consider barry of a
metal and a color, or paly, or a semy of certain charges (crusilly,
most notably).  Or stop at what you have -- if you're happy with it as
is, it's registerable.  I just like to suggest more period-style
things in case you might prefer them.

Daniel de Lincolia
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