[ANSTHRLD] trumpets vs Devices

[eirik at hot.rr.com]

To add to Alden's information, Boutell's Guide to Heraldry on p.234 puts the start of impaling in the reign of Edward I and the first quartered arms in 1291.

Eirik Halfdanarson
---- Alden Drake <alden_drake at sbcglobal.net> wrote: 
> >From The Oxford Guide to Heraldry pg 118 on dimidiation of arms:
> "Francis Sandford, Lancaster Herald, in his Genealogical History of the Kings of England (1677) illustrates the seal of Margaret de Clare, wife of Edmond, Earl of Cornwall (died 1300), where the arms are dimidiated.  This appears to be one of the earliest instances of the practice."