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Partial Success in Identifying a Coat of Arms
I find it interesting (frustrating, at times, but interesting) just how much -- or how little -- information I can discover about the bearer of a coat of arms.Sometimes, as in my last post, I can learn...
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What We Have Here Is a Failure to ... Identify?
(You must pardon me for borrowing, and slightly modifying, a well-known line from the movie Cool Hand Luke starring Paul Newman, but I simply couldn't resist. What can I say? I like movies as well as...
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Back on Track!
So having covered some of the difficulties in identifying some coats of arms in King's College Chapel, Cambridge, we're going to look at one or two more where more information about the armiger - the...
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Arms, and a Plethora of Biographical Information
For the coat of arms in this next window, not only do we have a blazon and an identification of the armiger, but because he has his own entry in the Dictionary of National Biography, we are blessed...
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It's On a Shield, But Is It Heraldry?
Wandering back out onto the streets of Cambridge from our visit to King's College Chapel, I ran across a couple of, well, I'm not entirely sure what to term them.The first is pretty definitely a logo,...
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Two More Cambridge Colleges' Arms
You didn't think we were done seeing all of the arms of the colleges of Cambridge University that I found in my perambulations around Cambridge, did you? Well, if you did, you were likely...
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The Arms of Trinity College, Cambridge
Next up on our walkabout around Cambridge, England, we found the arms of Trinity College.Trinity College (not to be confused with Trinity Hall, whose arms we will look at a little later) was founded in...
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A Clock, A Very Large Grasshopper, and a Coat of Arms
Sitting in a window of the Taylor Library at the junction of Bene't Street and Trumpington Street in Cambridge is an absolutely amazing clock.I'm not going to get into its history, its mechanism, or...
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Yet Another Cambridge College Coat of Arms
I know, it shouldn't be a surprise that there were a lot of different college's coats of arms to be seen about town in Cambridge, England. And today, we're going to look at yet another one!These are,...
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The Arms of the "Other" Trinity
We've already seen the arms of Trinity College in a previous post (and may see them again in a later one, if I can adequately identify the accompanying personal arms), but today we're going to look at...
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The Very Complex Arms of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Now, admittedly, the arms of Gonville and Caius (pronounced "Kees") College are especially complex because they consist of the impaled arms, within a bordure compony, of the first founder, Edmund...
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An Achievement of Arms, But Where Are the Arms?
On my travels I often run across, and blog about, the blank shields and blank cartouches that I run across. Usually, I confine my remarks to talking about what a wasted opportunity a blank shield may...
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Some Personal Arms at Clare College Memorial Court
The sessions of the conference we attended in Cambridge were held at Clare College Memorial Court. It wasn't until I was researching the two coats of arms covered today that I learned that the full...
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Well, They're Sorta Heraldic, I Suppose
Not the arms of one of the Cambridge colleges, nor personal arms, the, well, I guess I have to call it a logo, of the Stafford House, Cambridge, is something that I believe I would have to classify as...
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The Arms of Trinity College, et alia
The gates of the various colleges at Cambridge are sufficiently diverse that a study of them would be worthwhile all on its own.Alas, in this little blog I lack the time to devote to such a study,...
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A Very Special Coat of Arms
I'd seen this coat of arms in my meanderings through Cambridge, but it wasn't until I got home and sat down to research it that I learned anything about what it was or its history.The arms, found inset...
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Impaled and Impaling
"Impaled/impaling. Transitive verb. ... 2. to join (coats of arms) on a heraldic shield divided vertically by a pale." (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)Well, close, but not quite close enough. A pale is a...
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It actually isn't all that frequent, even in England, that you run across a statue of a Tudor man, dressed in his finery, along with a depiction of his coat of arms and crest. But that is in fact one...
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Three Grants of Arms
So today I'm going to finish up my review of the heraldry I saw in Cambridge last summer with photographs of three grants of arms (well, two grants and a certification, if you want to be nitpicky about...
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A Non-Heraldic Introduction to Some Local Heraldry Outside Cambridge, England
Today's post doesn't contain any heraldry, I'm sorry to say. It is, however, an introduction to the reason why we traveled to this little village outside of Cambridge, where we did find some heraldry....
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