Diamond (heraldry)

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The diamond is a common figure in heraldry and can be in a heraldic field with other heraldic figures .

The figure is shown once in plan view and another time in side view. The diamond in the coat of arms can be recognized by the so-called faceted representation, which symbolizes a gemstone cut and is similar to the unmounted natural gemstone .

All heraldic colors are possible, but silver is preferred.

particularities

Depicted diamonds, in the broader sense all gemstones in heraldic crowns , are not mentioned in the description of the coat of arms . If a stone is shown in a ring in the coat of arms (e.g. on one hand ), the stone can usually be addressed as a diamond.

In the coat of arms of Navarre is a green diamond in the off-center in the cross of Navarrakette , which the Koran book of the Sultan to symbolize.

Diamond was used by the older heraldists as a term for black heraldic color.

The faceted diamond is an example of a gem in the coat of arms. As a diamond, however, the coat of arms figure is only correct if the description of the coat of arms says so.

Examples

  • Side view in the coat of arms of Érize-Saint-Dizier

  • Top view in the coat of arms of Grandjean

  • Spatial representation in the Udachny coat of arms

  • Gemstone (faceted diamond,
    after Gritzner )

  • Neustrelitz coat of arms with a diamond-set ring according to no. 216 of the coat of arms of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gottfried von Bülow: History of the coat of arms of the von Bülow family. A heraldic-sphragistic attempt on the basis of the oldest monuments of the family. Mitscher & Röstel, Berlin 1871, p. 37.
  2. ↑ Gert Oswald : Lexicon of Heraldry. VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1984, DNB 850576571 ; Licensed edition: Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1984, ISBN 3-411-02149-7 ; 3rd, unchanged. Edition Battenberg, Regenstauf 2011, ISBN 978-3-86646-077-5 (title addition: From apple cross to twin bars ) p. 98.
  3. ↑ Maximilian Gritzner: Principles of heraldic art, combined with a manual of heraldic terminology. Bauer & Raspe, Nuremberg 1889–1890 (facsimile edition 2012: ISBN 3-226-00671-1 ), p. 59, illustration plate 9, no. 92

Web links

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