Heraldry

International Heraldry. News, Examples, Art, History.

[Historic Royal Palaces @HRP_palaces]

Every lovely garden needs a lovely garden fence to match, right? #HamptonCourtPalace is no different!

Right now we’re doing some work on ours — welcome to the spectacular Tijou Screen in the Privy Garden 😲 (1/6)

[Héraldique française 🇺🇦🇫🇷 @heraldique_fr]

RT @HeraldryOnline Grant of Arms: William Phelps Vaile of West Malling 1827 https://t.co/zGOTKy7Acf

[HeraldryOnline @HeraldryOnline]

Grant of Arms: William Phelps Vaile of West Malling 1827 https://t.co/Ad5np00Uct

[Therron Welstead @TherronWelstead]

One of my favourite features on an effigy is the soles (souls!) of Sir John Leigh (d.1529) in Godshill Church, #isleofwight. There are two weeping monks with rosaries in hand praying for his soul. Has anyone seen such a placement elsewhere? #tombtuesday

[David S Baker @ModernMedievali]

The Duke of Lancaster-in a Chivalric Pose @EnglishHeritage also the Loyal Toast, "The Queen, Duke of Lancaster." @HeraldicArms

[Queen_Cosima @Queen_Cosima]

unidentified coat of arms, #heraldry on large, dismantlement funerary monument, 19th cent., no inscriptions. @flagsheraldry @HeraldicArms

[Peter N Lindfield @PeterNLindfield]

#heraldic essays: Semy-De-Lys @GothImagination @ArtHistoryStA @HeraldicArms @C15Katie https://t.co/VQ79aHxaO8

[Marc Baronnet @baronnet]

@LyonCourt can I freely reproduce arms from my #letterspatent, or are there copyrights by the (unknown) artist?

[Lyon Court @LyonCourt]

#OTD 100 years ago these arms were recorded for financier & parliamentarian Alexander Henderson, 1st Baron Faringdon

[Danielle Marshall @GennaiZazen]

WORD OF THE DAY: yale - mythical animal, a tusked horse with elephant's tail in heraldry, centicore

[Lyon Court @LyonCourt]

Today is 751 years since the Battle of #Largs. The burgh arms show the Scots as thistles seeing off the Norwegians...

[Lyon Court @LyonCourt]

Great photos from @CulzeanCastle: perhaps the arms of the Marquess of Ailsa feature on the ceilings and walls too?

[Lyon Court @LyonCourt]

The Duke of Edinburgh's present grant quarters Denmark, Greece, the Mountbatten family and Edinburgh @BritishMonarchy

[Lyon Court @LyonCourt]

We are sorry to learn of the untimely death of Archibald Kennedy, 8th Marquess of Ailsa, Chief of #Clan Kennedy

[Lyon Court @LyonCourt]

St Moluag's staff can be also be found crossed behind the arms of its keeper, Livingstone of Bachuil @rosieweetch

[Nick Eardley @nickeardleybbc]

Proclamation dissolving Westminster Parliament read from Mercat Cross in Edinburgh http://t.co/UpockmzGst

[Lyon Court @LyonCourt]

#OnThisDay 100 years ago these arms were matriculated for Sir Bruce Seton of Abercorn, Bt, which quarter Seton & Hay

[Lyon Court @LyonCourt]

#OnThisDay in 1900 HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, daughter of the Earl of Strathmore & Kinghorne, was born.