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Heraldry on the Internet
There’s a Facebook group that some of you may already know about; it’s called the Heraldry Hall of Shame and posters to the group will put up pictures of what they consider to be really poor coats of...
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Long Live the King!
No, really! That's the title of a recent tee shirt over at ShirtWoot! And, as you can see, it's heraldic. Sort of.Anyway, I thought it was neat to have an heraldic achievement as an homage to the...
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It Never Rains ...
... but it pours.In this case, it's a matter of Tee Fury (which has a new tee shirt design every day offered at http://www.teefury.com/, just as Woot Shirt! does) going for weeks at a time without an...
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Heraldry in the Blogosphere
There was a neat post recently about some Royal heraldry over on Philip Wilkinson's blog English Buildings. The particular building he was highlighting that day was a shop front near Pulteney Bridge...
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An Old Controversy Refuses to Die
John Tepper Marlin has recently published a column over at The Huffington Post entitled "Washington's Arms and the Stars and Stripes -- Believe!" In it he brings up the old saw that the flag of the...
View ArticleAn Interesting Heraldic Website
And one which, when they say “family crest,” they actually mean the crest, and not the coat of arms.I was pointed to this website by a short article in the most recent Heraldry Gazette from the...
View ArticleA Couple of Heraldic Quotes
“What is it that induceth you, what stirs you up to believe, or who told you that white signifieth faith, and blue constancy? An old paltry book, say you, sold by the hawking pedlars and balladmongers,...
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Heraldry in Maastricht, Part One
Well, we've gotten back from the XXX International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences held in Maastricht, The Netherlands, in September and I'm finally getting the time to start going...
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Heraldry in Maastricht, Part Two
Having looked at the City of Maastricht's coat of arms on and in the Stadhuis, the town hall on the market square, now we'll see how the city's arms show up in other, less official, contexts about the...
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Heraldry in Maastricht, Part One and a Half
Yes, I know, this would normally be "Heraldry in Maastricht, Part Three," but I discovered as I was going through my photos to select some for the next post that I had missed one of the representations...
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Heraldry in Maastricht, Part Two and a Half
The trouble with taking, say, a thousand or so photographs over the course of a week is that, well, it's sometimes hard to remember to include all of the various pictures of, say, a city's coat of arms...
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Heraldry in Maastricht, Part Three
In this post, we get to look at some more heraldry from the Stadhuis (the State House) in Maastricht, this time in some of the windows of the building. (There are more, and don't worry, I'm going to...
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Three New Old Heraldry Books
The Walters Art Museum of Baltimore, Maryland, has been digitizing some of its holdings and making them available on-line. And, perhaps unsurprisingly, some of these holdings are heraldic. The books...
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Heraldry in Maastricht, Part Four
One of the things that I like about traveling outside the United States is that you can often see representations of the national arms (which are often the arms of the reigning king or queen, in...
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Heraldry in Maastricht, Part Five
I told you in a previous post when I showed you these arms in one of the windows of the Stadhuis, theState House...... that I would be getting back to the coat of arms of St. Servatius (Sint-Servaas)....
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Heraldry in Maastricht, Part Six
One of the real treasures contained in the Treasury at Basilica of St. Servatius is a gilded bust, dating to 1580, containing a relic of the Saint's skull.As you can see, it is a beautiful piece of...
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Heraldry in Maastricht, Part Seven
One of the things I enjoy seeing in European churches is the heraldic memorials to deceased persons that are called "hatchments." They can be fairly plain; they can be ornate; they have just the coat...
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Heraldry in Maastricht, Part Eight
Continuing our heraldic tour of the Basilica of St. Servatius in Maastricht, we come to the heart of the basilica, as it were. While cathedrals always have a cathedra, the chair of the bishop,...
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Heraldry in Tyler, Texas
We interrupt our on-going series of heraldry in the city of Maastricht, The Netherlands, to share some heraldry we found in Tyler, out in east Texas.I was there to give a presentation to the East Texas...
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Heraldry in Maastricht, Part Nine
Continuing on in our heraldic tour of the Basilica of St. Servaas in Maastricht, we come to some of the magnificent stained glass windows there. And when I say "some," I mean I'm not going to do them...
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