[ANSTHRLD] Conflict check: Gyronny of eight azure and pean, on a lozenge Or a sheaf of arrows argent

Doug Bell magnus77840 at yahoo.com
Wed May 30 13:31:26 PDT 2012


Lozenges are no longer treated as a medium of heraldic display. Only cantons and single escutcheons are of concern under the new rules.

Magnus

A.6.C. Claims through Arms of Pretense and Unearned Augmentations: In period and modern heraldry, an individual may assert a claim to land or property by placing the armory associated with that property on an escutcheon in the middle of their existing armory.  An augmentation of honor often takes the form of a charged canton; occasionally it takes the form of a charged escutcheon.  Therefore, either a canton or a single escutcheon may be used in an armorial submission only if it is uncharged and of a single tincture.  Multiple escutcheons do not have to follow this limitation. 

For example, Argent, a fess gules surmounted by an escutcheon sable charged with a roundel argent is not allowed, because it appears to be arms of pretense. Or, in saltire five escutcheons sable each charged with three roundels argent is registerable, because multiple identical escutcheons were not used for arms of pretense or augmentations.



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