Portuguese heraldry
The Portuguese Heraldry has much in common with the Spanish heraldry . The shield content of the city arms is much simpler than the Spanish ones. The law stipulates that the coat of arms should only contain a field with a herald's image or only one or more common figures . The reduced representation of the state coat of arms is used as a symbol . Priority is given to gold and silver wall crowns above the shield . Frequent pitted edging ( board ) are common. In Portugal , until the end of the Middle Ages , the view persisted that each coat of arms must be assigned to a specific person. In heraldry, quinas are the five small blue heraldic shields , each with five white dots. They are placed crosswise in the Portuguese coat of arms and on the Portuguese flag. They also appear in the coats of arms of former colonies.
See also
- Quinas or little labels
- History of the little shields
- Coat of arms of the colonies of Portugal
- Portuguese coat of arms
- Paragraph Portugal
literature
- Pye, RF: Names, Arms and Cadency in Portugal. The Coat of Arms. London 1965.
- Almeida-Langhans, FP: Heraldica, ciecia de temas vivos, Lisbon 1966.
- The great book of heraldic art , Walter Leonhard , Verlag Georg DW Callwey, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-8289-0768-7 .
- Heraldry , Milan Buben , Albatros Prague, 1987.
- Lexicon of Heraldry , Gert Oswald , VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig, 1984.