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Glover's Roll (British Library Add MS 29796), a 16th-century copy of a roll of arms of the 1250s has depictions of various heraldic crosses, including the or a cross gules of the earl of Norfolk, gules, a cross argent of Peter of Savoy, argent a cross gules of Robert de Veer, gules a cross flory vair of Guillaume de Forz, Comte d'Aumale, gules ...
Rompu" should be distinguished from "fracted". The arms of the Roossenekal Local Area Committee are Per chevron Gules and Azure, a chevron fracted and embattled to chief Or, between in chief a rose Argent, barbed and seeded, and in base a cross fleuretty, Or. The form of the "fracting" can be specified.
Gules between a cross saltire argent, four stars argent on the fess point a Bible. Meaning; A red shield (gules)with a silver (argent) X shaped cross (saltire.) There are four silver stars in the spaces around the saltire. The fess point is the centre of the shield and on that point is a bible.
voided—Town of Lacombe: Or a cross Gules voided throughout of the field between in the first quarter a Mountain Bluebird (Sialia currucoides) volant bendwise Azure, in the second an open book Argent bound Azure, in the third a cross flory Azure voided of the field and charged with a cross couped Gules, and in the fourth two bendlets and two ...
Escutcheon: Purpure a cross potent quadrate Argent in chief three fountains. [10] Ely, assumed circa 1290 Escutcheon: Gules three Ducal Coronets two and one Or. [11] [12] Exeter, recorded at unknown date Escutcheon: Gules a sword erect in pale Argent hilted Or surmounted of two keys addorsed in saltire wards in chief of the last. [13]
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.
Argent, a quarter Azure, thereon three mullets one and two of the first, over all a cross throughout gules. Meaning; A silver (argent) shield. On this is a red (gules) Christian cross. A canton (small square) at the top left is blue (azure) and on this are three silver five pointed stars (mullets) one at the top and two at the bottom.
The anthropomorphic sun (with eyes and nose visible) and clouds on the crest represent "learning piercing the clouds of ignorance", while the cross is believed to be a Saint George's Cross. [3] The four open books adorning the escutcheon symbolize learning, and are rumored to represent Harvard , Yale , Cambridge and Oxford –four institutional ...