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Argent a cross gules quarterly pierced nine crosses crosslet, three, three, and three counterchanged (the first quarter ermine for distinction) (Mary Ann Harvey Bonnell 1841) The cross voided (also une fausse croix ) has the same tincture of the field with only a narrow border outlining the limbs.
a cross enhanced - Argent; a cross enhanced gules, over all a billet charged with a cross pattée fitchée, all counterchanged and in base issuant from each flank a demi fir tree in pale gules - St. George's Church Pickering Village, Canada
For Arms, Argent on a Cross Gules five pine-apples slipped OR: and upon a representation of Our Royal Helmet mantled OR doubled Ermine, for the Crest, On a Wreath Argent and Gules, Upon a Log fesse wise a Crocodile Proper: And for the Supporters, On the dexter side a West Indian Native Woman holding in the exterior hand a Basket of Fruits and ...
The term gules derives from the Middle English goules, which itself is an Old French word meaning "neckpiece made of red fur". Goules is derived from the Old French gole or guele, both of which mean "throat", which are ultimately derived from the Latin gula, also meaning "throat". Gules is similar to the English word gullet.
Paly of six argent and gules, on a chief of the first a lion passant sable: Bratton Clovelly: Lante [ag] Per pale argent and gules, a cross engrailed counterchanged: Exeter: Larder Argent, three piles sable each charged with as many bezants: Upton Pyne: Leach Ermine, on a chief engrailed gules three ducal coronets or
The metals and common colours of heraldry. One system of hatching is shown at right. Tinctures are the colours, metals, and furs used in heraldry.Nine tinctures are in common use: two metals, or (gold or yellow) and argent (silver or white); the colours gules (red), azure (blue), vert (green), sable (black), and purpure (purple); and the furs ermine, which represents the winter fur of a stoat ...
Quarterly 1st and 4th Sable a lion rampant on a canton Argent a cross Gules; 2nd and 3rd quarterly Argent and Gules in the 2nd and 3rd quarters a fret Or overall on a bend Sable three escallops of the first and as an augmentation in chief an inescutcheon, Argent a cross Gules and thereon an inescutcheon Azure, three fleurs-de-lis Or.
Argent, a lion rampant gules debruised by a bend raguly or A sword broken in two, the pieces placed in saltire on a wreath, and surmounting a ragged staff erectly or None Abraham Walker of the Hague A fess gules charged with a lion of England. None None Sir Edward Walker Argent on the cross of St. George gules five leopards’ faces or. None None