Occupied
In heraldry, a technical term that describes a specific representation of a herald's image or a heraldic figure is occupied or loaded .
A coat of arms figure / a herald's image or several heraldic figures that are placed on a herald's image or another figure in the coat of arms is or are shown. The figure below must still be recognizable, otherwise it will be emblazoned as covered ( covering ). The latter also applies if the figure placed on it (e.g. inclined beam) touches the edge of the shield, e.g. B. in the coat of arms of the barons of Hochberg (Hachberg) until 1796: "Split of gold and silver, topped with a gold-crowned and armored, left-facing, red lion, everything covered by a red sloping bar."
The coat of arms of Lorraine : "In gold, a red (right) sloping bar , covered (loaded) with three mutilated white eagles ."
literature
- Gert Oswald : Lexicon of Heraldry. Bibliographical Institute, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich / Leipzig 1984, ISBN 3-411-02149-7 ; 2nd unchanged edition with the subtitle Von Apfelkreuz bis Zwillingsbalken, Battenberg, Regenstauf 2006, ISBN 3-86646-010-4 ; 3rd edition 2011, ISBN 978-3-86646-077-5 , pp. 59, 402.
- Johann Christoph Gatterer : Johann Christoph Gatterer's outline of the heraldry: In addition to eight copper plates. Johann Christian Dieterich, Göttingen 1792, p. 65.