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  2. Coat of arms - Wikipedia

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    The coat of arms on an escutcheon forms the central element of the full heraldic achievement, which in its whole consists of a shield, supporters, a crest, and a motto. A coat of arms is traditionally unique to the armiger (e.g. an individual person, family, state, organization, school or corporation). The term "coat of arms" itself, describing ...

  3. Crest (heraldry) - Wikipedia

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    The word "crest" derives from the Latin crista, meaning "tuft" or "plume", perhaps related to crinis, "hair". [1] Crests had existed in various forms since ancient times: Roman officers wore fans of feathers or horsehair, which were placed longitudinally or transversely depending on the wearer's rank, [ 2 ] and Viking helmets were often adorned ...

  4. Heraldry - Wikipedia

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    Various symbols have been used to represent individuals or groups for thousands of years. The earliest representations of distinct persons and regions in Egyptian art show the use of standards topped with the images or symbols of various gods, and the names of kings appear upon emblems known as serekhs, representing the king's palace, and usually topped with a falcon representing the god Horus ...

  5. List of Scottish clans - Wikipedia

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    Crest: Issuant from a crest coronet Or a naked arm grasping a sword Proper. [180] Motto: Amor patitur moras [180] [Latin, 'Love endures delays'] [180] Chief: Gillem Lumsden of that Ilk Lundin [4] Crest: A lion gules, issuant from an antique crown Or, holding in its dexter paw a sword erect and in its sinister a thistle slipped both Proper

  6. Wolves in heraldry - Wikipedia

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    In Saxony, a black wolf rampant on a yellow shield features on the crest of von Wolfersdorf family. A green wolf grasping a dead swan in its jaws on a yellow shield is depicted on the crest and Arms of the Counts von Brandenstein-Zeppelin. In Italian heraldry, the attributed arms of Romulus and Remus were said to depict the Capitoline Wolf. An ...

  7. Coat of arms of Bavaria - Wikipedia

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    The coat of arms of the family was the "Lion of Sponheim", although the charge was not a lion but a "panthier" (pronounced as in French), a mixture of a dragon and a lion. Nowadays, the fire-spitting panthier/panther is the coat of arms of the city of Ingolstadt. The coat of arms created for the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1835 included the panthier.

  8. Hartman - Wikipedia

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    Hartman Bache (1798–1872), American lighthouse engineer; Hartman H. Lomawaima (1949–2008), Native American director of the Arizona State Museum; Hartman Longley (born 1952), Chief Justice of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas; Hartman Louis Oberlander (1864–1922), American baseball pitcher; Hartman Rector Jr. (1924–2018), American Latter ...

  9. English heraldry - Wikipedia

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    English heraldry is the form of coats of arms and other heraldic bearings and insignia used in England.It lies within the so-called Gallo-British tradition.Coats of arms in England are regulated and granted to individuals by the English kings of arms of the College of Arms.