per chief

Party per chief, gules and or, are the Arms of Camoyse.

1845, Edward Smedley, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, Encyclopaedia Metropolitana: Mixed sciences, page 602:

[...] which Anne bore parted per chief azure and vert, three martlets or, in the first a crescent az. for difference, but by her he had no issue.

1882, William Wheater, The history of the parishes of Sherburn and Cawood, page 175:

Per chief gules and sable, a lion rampant ermine (argent billetty sable). GOLDWELL,

1897, William Kirkpatrick Riland Bedford, The Blazon of Episcopacy: Being the Arms Borne by Or Attributed to the Archbishops and Bishops of England and Wales with an Ordinary of the Coats Described and of Other Episcopal Arms, page 173:

Cromwell of Tattershall : party per chief, gules and argent, a bend azure; which might also be blazoned as gules, a chief argent, and a bend azure (fig. 16). Heraldic writers give the fillet as a diminutive of the chief.

1903, Day Otis Kellogg, Thomas Spencer Baynes, The Encyclopædia Britannica: A-ZYM, page 694:

Shield—Quarterly first and fourth, quarterly Gules and Argent, in the first quarter a mullet Argent (De Vere); second, Gules, a bend between six cross crosslets fitchée Argent (Howard); third, per chief Gules and Argent[…]

1920, Grosvenor Thomas, Maurice Drake, The Costessey Collection of Stained Glass: Formerly in the Possession of George William Jerningham, 8th Baron Stafford of Costessey in the County of Norfolk, page 19:

Per chief gules and azure, over all a lion rampant or Hastang Robert G. 162 QI . 123 .... L. 69 J. 133 E. 153 Per chief or and azure, over all a lion rampant gules Hastang Sutton Robert John FW. 176 HE . 162 L. 228 Per chief gules[…]

1984, Cecil R. Humphery-Smith, Anglo-Norman Armory Two: An Ordinary of Thirteenth-century Armorials:

rule of tincture
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(heraldry, now nonstandard) Partitioned into two parts by a horizontal line one-third of the way down the shield. A shield of this form is now normally viewed as one colour charged with a chief instead, although this may cause it to break the rule of tincture.


countercombatant

Arms. G. 2 lions countercombatant O. quartering A. on a pale B. 3—A.

1790, Sir Egerton Brydges, The Topographer: Containing a Variety of Original Articles, Illustrative of the Local History and Antiquities of England, page 78:

Quarterly, 1st gu. on a chev. ar. a rose betw. two lions countercombatant of the first, for HEPBURN; 2nd, az. a ship or, her sails furled ar. within a double tressure flory counterflory of the second, as Duke of Orkney: 3rd[…]

1884, Bernard Burke, The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales: Comprising a Registry of Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time, page 480:

(heraldry, of two animals) Facing each other (like combattant animals), especially in on either side of a charge.


astral crown

(heraldry) A gold crown surmounted with eight low points. The centrals and laterals points are topped with a star, with an unspecified number of points, between two wings. It is mounted atop the shields of coats of arms of units belonging to some air forces or the personal arms of its distinguished commanders.


celestial crown

en-noun

celestial crown (plural celestial crowns)

(heraldry) A modified eastern crown consisting of a gold fence usually adorned with points or rays topped with stars of the same metal.


antique crown

So called from being one of the oldest heraldic crown insignia.

The quartered arms of the See were usually arranged in an oval escucheon I. Gules, […] an eagle sable, crowned with an antique crown and supported by a trangle held in its claws, is brochant over the stem of the tree.

1894, John Woodward, A Treatise on Ecclesiastical Heraldry, page 298:


eastern crown

So called because of its origin in the Eastern Mediterranean.

(heraldry) A gold heraldic crown surmounted with a variable number of sharp spikes.


embelif

From Middle English embelif (“oblique (adj.); obliquely (adv.)”) (compare Middle English embelink), from Old French en belif / beslif, related to Latin ob-līquus.

inh

Robert Dene of Sussex (14th century) bore "Gules a quarter azure 'embelif,' or aslant, and thereon a sleeved arm and hand of silver."

1910, The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Har to Ita, page 320:

The trick […] might be meant for a lion passant or for one rampant embelif […]

2009, Thomas Daniel Tremlett, Hugh Stanford London, Rolls of Arms, Henry III., page 132:


kleestengel

From older German Kleestengel (since 1996 now spelled Kleestängel).

Gules an eagle argent with "Kleestengel" and a crescent sable on its breast, armed and membered or

1987, Madeline Harrison Caviness, Stained Glass Before 1700 in American Collections: Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern Seaboard States:

Argent, an eagle or [for gules], with 'Kleestengel' or (Margrave of Brandenburg) (ibid., p. 12, pl. 12). Technique : The Überlingen heraldic window is a technical masterpiece. The lion, mantling and escutcheon were made with red flashed glass[…]

2001, Virginia Chieffo Raguin, Helen Jackson Zakin, Elizabeth Carson Pastan, Stained Glass Before 1700 in the Collections of the Midwest States: Michigan, Ohio:

A gold helmet affronty ensigned by a gold coronet, from which arises an eagle displayed sable crowned or, on each wing a kleestengel or and having upon the breast the letters F R also or. Mantling : Sable doubled argent.

2005, Sarah Brown, A History of the Stained Glass of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, St George's Chapel, page 188:

(heraldry, rare) One of a pair of ornaments extending from the chest outward along the wing-bone of a bird, terminating in a trefoil, chiefly in German heraldry.


treflée

Borrowed from French tréflé(e). See trefoil. Doublet of trifoliate.

Gaddi: Azure, a cross treflée or.

1901, Howel Wills, Florentine Heraldry: A Supplement to the Guide-books, page 118:

3. ALBERT EDWARD PRINCE OF WALES. The Royal arms as above, differenced with a label of three points argent, over all, barry of ten or and sable a bend treflée vert (Saxony).

1921, Edward Alfred Webb, The Records of St. Bartholomew's Priory and of the Church and Parish of St. Bartholomew's the Great: West Smithfield, page 478:

Vert, a cross treflée (or flory) argent between four open crowns or, in a canton of the second the Blessed Virgin holding the Holy Child proper. (Woodward, Ecclesiastical Heraldry.


surgerant

Giffith Goch Lord of Rhos and Rhyvoning, Lineally Descended from Marchudd in the eleventh degree, he bore Or a Griffen Surgerant or Rising Gules […]

1716, John Davies, A display of herauldry, of … North Wales, page 51:

Griffin. Gul. 1 surgerant or.—Llawdder. […]

1851, Archaeologia Cambrensis: the journal of the Cambrian Archaeological Association. 1851, page 76:

Or, a falcon surgerant azure, for Tegerin ab Carwed, […]

1887, Jacob Youde William Lloyd, The History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher, and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog: And the Ancient Lords of Arwystli, Cedewen, and Meirionydd, page 194:


cadet branch

(history, heraldry) A house (dynasty) descended from one of the patriarch's younger sons.


cadet house

(history, heraldry) Synonym of cadet branch (“house (dynasty) descended from one of the patriarch's younger sons”)


naval crown

(heraldry) A naval emblem made up of a circlet with the sails and sterns of ships alternating on top.


jessant-de-lis

(heraldry) A fleur-de-lis issuing out of any object.


barby

Seemingly from French barbé, barbée, but in French (language and heraldry) that term means something else ("bearded or wattled").

(heraldry, rare) Barbed, like the ends of an arrow cross.


in complement

The sixth Bishop of Ely had very curious arms, for he bore both sun and moon on his shield, the sun "in his splendour" and the moon "in her complement".

1912, Allen Phoebe, Peeps at Heraldry, page 33:

(heraldry, of a moon) Full and fully illuminated.


stainand

(heraldry, uncommon) Staining (used, infrequently, to describe the heraldic stains like tenné).


enchaussure

(heraldry, rare) The overlay which makes a shield chaussé.


golpy

Blazon: A plate golpy charged with a saltire Azure, overall a barrel Or charged with a lion’s head erased Gules, the whole ensigned by a coronet of mayflowers and thistles Or.

2014, Grant of a Badge for use by the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Excellence in Nova Scotian Wines https://www.gg.ca/en/heraldry/public-register/project/2644

(heraldry) Semé (strewn) with golpes (roundels purpure).


raise to the ermine

en-verb

raise to the ermine (third-person singular simple present raises to the ermine, present participle raising to the ermine, simple past and past participle raised to the ermine)

raises to the ermine (present singular third-person)
raising to the ermine (participle present)
raised to the ermine (participle past)
raised to the ermine (past)

Coordinate term: raise to the purple

(heraldry) Of a person, to increase in status by adding an ermine fur pattern to a coat of arms.


per pall

44. Per pall, sable, argent and gules. 45. Per pall reversed, or, argent and azure. 46. Argent, a pall gules.

1896, Franz Sales Meyer, A Handbook of Ornament, with 300 Plates Containing about 3000 Illustrations of the Elements, and the Application of Decoration to Objects, page 508:

[…] is : Per pall (or per pairle), reversed; or, sable and azure; in dexter chief an azure money bag tied and lined gules, proper ; in sinister chief a pair of balances palewise of the fourth; in base a Phoenician galley with sails[…]

Per pall azure, argent and gules, a pall between in chief a sun in splendour or, on the dexter side upon a mount issuing from base an oak-tree proper, and on the sinister side three mullets of six points one and two of the fourth[…]

1929, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour:

(heraldry, uncommon) (Partitioned) into three triangular sections, one pointing down from the top of the shield and the others occupying the remainder of the left and right halves of the shield, as if the shield is divided by a Y shape (formally party per pall or tierced per pall).


Red Rose of Lancaster

(heraldry, historical) A heraldic badge adopted by the royal House of Lancaster in the 14th century.