SR - More Lions!

[Timothy A. McDaniel]

GUNNORA wrote:
> the lions with one head and multiple bodies.
> I particularly like the variant that has one lion's head 
> facing out towards the viewer in the center
> and the three bodies arranged in the "rampant" posture,
> but angled into the two upper corners and down into the
> point of the device.

That one is the "tricorporate lion" (tri-: three, corporate:
body).  Multi-bodied lions are pretty rare in period (one (1)
example of a four-bodied one), but tricorp is by far the usual
one, if any are usual.

Do realize that, when a period coat of arms has an unusual
practice or charge, it's almost always the *only* unusual thing.
Say, if you had a Bavarian left-handed urinal, you had one
or three (arranged in the stanard two-and-one arrangement),
and there were no other charges on the field, and the colors
were the dead standard ones.  So if you want a tricorp,
I'd advise the same.

Daniel "there is no closed-form solution to the
three-body problem" de Lincolia
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