Coat of Arms Association
The coat of arms association is a combination of two or more coats of arms in heraldry in order to have a common coat of arms and to document the association of different coats of arms . It can be necessary or wanted for hereditary reasons ( noble families ) or for political reasons. Political reasons are / were territorial additions and exits.
The totality of the rules about the composition of coats of arms that do not actually belong together is called courtoisie (courtesy, honorary testimony).
variants
Several ways have evolved in heraldry to meet these demands. The options are:
Compilation
- Placement of two coats of arms with the edge of the shield touching or slightly overlapping
- the inclination with the corner contact on the upper edge of the shield
- Juxtaposition of two coats of arms without touching, but with a common base, connected with ropes or loops, or with a common upper coat of arms or common gems .
Compression
- Assembling by placing a central shield and a heart shield
- the joining of divided or split coats of arms, so-called halving
- joining by laying on in the manner of a beam (here the diagonal left or diagonal right position of the beam is also possible)
- Seeding of the coat of arms with the images of the other coat of arms
- the free quarter variant
- the squaring (crossing) , in the first and fourth fields; here it is possible to combine three or four coats of arms; the use of the heart shield is a popular choice for this variant
- Grafting is called the insertion of a curved tip between two fields in the same place
See also
Web links
- Coat of Arms Association in the Heraldry Wiki