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Unlike mobile charges, the ordinary charges [8] reach to the edge of the field. Some heraldic writers [b] distinguish, albeit arbitrarily, between (honourable) ordinaries and sub-ordinaries. While some authors hold that only nine charges are "honourable" ordinaries, exactly which ones fit into this category is a subject of constant disagreement.
The heraldic mobile charge fountain takes the form of a heraldic roundel barry-wavy of six, argent and azure (white and blue). The charge represents a well or spring, and Berry (1810) speculates that the fountain "might have been borne by ancient knights to express the inexhaustible source of courage ever to be found within them, which flowed ...
The fountain is a medieval heraldic charge displayed as a roundel barry wavy argent and azure. It represents water and refers to both the water catchment area and the rivers and lakes. Thus, the arms contain references to the hills and mountains, rivers and lakes, water supply and industry. The crest continues the colouring of the arms.
As an ordinary, the Esquarre is defined as a charge that borders a quarter (Fr. franc quartier, or a singular quarter as charge) [5] on its two interior edges abutting the field. [6] The Esquarre isolates the quarter from the rest of the field. [7] De Galway suggested that the Esquarre is employed when both quarter and field are the same ...
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Inescutcheons may appear in personal and civic armory as simple mobile charges, for example the arms of the House of Mortimer, the Clan Hay or the noble French family of Abbeville. These mobile charges are of a particular tincture but do not necessarily bear further charges and may appear anywhere on the main escutcheon, their placement being ...
This charge, seen in continental heraldry (above, used in a Portuguese communal coat of arms), must be called a naturalistic fountain in English blazons. Fountain or syke is in the terminology of heraldry a roundel depicted as a roundel barry wavy argent and azure, that is, containing alternating horizontal wavy bands of silver (or white) and ...
In heraldry, an ordinary is one of the two main types of charges, beside the mobile charges.An ordinary is a simple geometrical figure, bounded by straight lines and running from side to side or top to bottom of the shield.