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A Rare Heraldic Treat Is Opened to Photographers
An unsung, little-known hospice for the infirm in Jerusalem opened its doors last week to reporters and photographers to let them see the coats of arms and geometric designs painted on its interior...
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Another Less Than Stellar Example
(Okay, I'll admit that the title of this post is an originally unintended pun; I caught onto it as I was 2/3 of the way through writing the post, and decided it was good enough - or bad enough - that I...
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Is the Welsh Flag "Evil"?
There apparently is a group in Wales that thinks that Y Ddraig Goch, "the red dragon" on the flag of Wales should be removed, and suggest that the flag of the patron saint of Wales, St. David, a gold...
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Heraldry Seen on Memorial Day
Well, it was almost heraldry.Memorial Day here in the United States is a holiday held on the last Monday in May dedicated to the memory of those who have died while serving in this country's armed...
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Oh, Dear!
A friend recently shared a bit of heraldry he had run across, partly because he knew I would be interested in it, and partly because, as he said when I told him "now I'll have to go find something else...
View Article"Your Family Coat of Arms"
Last April, Barry Canote over on his blog Missouri and Things posted a discussion about heraldry and coats of arms, and in particular, about something I have railed about myself a number of times on...
View ArticleParis, Dahling!
I always find it interesting to see how a coat of arms may be modified over the years (or centuries) as certain artistic conventions fall out of favor or come into being. Heraldic art has its...
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So ... "Boxers or Briefs?"
I ran across a recent discussion about the coat of arms of Jan van Abbenbroek in The Netherlands, which appear in an old armorial, the Wapenboeck of Cornelis van Aecken. (You can see the entire...
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Canada's Royal Arms
As with the post from last Monday noting a website that gave the various versions of the arms of the City of Paris over the years, here's a webpage that gives the history - through several different...
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Could It Be?
In a news article whose link was forwarded to me, we have the following somewhat exciting, somewhat scary, sentence: "Estonian researchers think that they've discovered the final resting place of the...
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Final Design for Richard III's Tomb Unveiled
Yes, it includes heraldry.The final design for the tomb of Richard III was shown to the public last week. The biggest change that I can see to the design is that instead of the stark monument (a large...
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Could It Be? Well, Maybe Not.
Last week I noted an article about some researchers who wanted to open a tomb in Naples, Italy because they believed it held the remains of Vlad III Tepes, known as Dracula.Here is the tomb in Santa...
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Wearable Heraldry
I've seen a number of things that people do with heraldry, some of which are probably just a little bit out of the "mainstream." I mean, it's one thing to get a baseball cap or a tshirt with a coat of...
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Symbols That Represent the U.S.A. in Heraldry
The Spring 2014 edition of The Armiger’s News, the quarterly newsletter of the American College of Heraldry, asked the question: “What symbols/elements/flora/fauna best represent the USofA...?”The most...
View ArticleIndividuals Added to the Heraldic Artists Websites Section
As part of my on-going endeavors to keep this blog as a resource for people looking for/looking at heraldry, I ran across a link the other day to a page with a number of artists, some of whom...
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Herald in the News!
Or, at least, news about a herald.Upon the recent retirement on June 30 of Henry Paston-Bedingfield (whom I have had the privilege over the years of meeting and hearing speak a couple of times) as...
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People Who Don't Know Much About Heraldry ...
... shouldn't try to design a "coat of arms."Of course, that's just my opinion, and I could be entirely wrong.But I don't think so.The HAC! team of Zitec, a Romanian software/web solutions company, has...
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Deceased Armiger in the News!
In a news article from July 8, 2014, in the New York Post comes the news that Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, the Viscount of Gálvez, 1746-1786, has been granted citizenship by the Congress of the United...
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Heralds and Heraldry on the Internet
There is an overview of the new on-line exhibition at the Folger Shakespeare Library entitled Symbols of Honor: Heraldry and Family History, uploaded to the Library’s website in conjunction with the...
View ArticleTop Ten Rejected Movies About Heraldry
The following list is shamelessly stolen, being too funny not to share, from “The Quarter, Trimaris’ Perfectly Period Parody Publication,” No. 16, http://www.thequarter.org/issue16/page09.php10. The...
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