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The Latin word armiger literally means "arms-bearer". In high and late medieval England, the word referred to an esquire attendant upon a knight, but bearing his own unique armorial device. [1] Armiger was also used as a Latin cognomen, and is now found as a rare surname in English-speaking countries. [citation needed]
An armigerous clan (from armiger) is a Scottish clan, family or name which is registered with the Court of the Lord Lyon and once had a chief who bore undifferenced arms, but does not have a chief currently recognised as such by Lyon Court.
If there is no male line surviving at the armiger's death then each of his surviving daughters becomes an heraldic heiress who holds equally the right of ownership of the arms in trust for her son, who then becomes the absolute owner of the arms. Coat of Arms of Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester, who is an heraldic heiress.
[note 5] If an Armiger is a member of the British Peerage or a feudal baron they are permitted to wear the appropriate coronet or baronial chapeau above the circlet on their crest badge. If an armiger is a member of a Scottish clan, they may wear the crest badge of their chief, however it must be encircled by a strap and buckle (see Un ...
Similarly, an armiger in contemporary terms is well-defined within the jurisdiction of Scotland as someone who is an armour-bearer. These two senses of "armour-bearer" are different: An esquire in feudal times was an "armour-bearer" in the sense of being the person who carried their knight's armour for them; whereas in the contemporary sense ...
Armiger and Blazon Stewart earl of Galloway , Branch descended from Alexander Stewart (deceased 1649), 1st earl of Galloway, Or, a fess chequy argent and azure of three rows, double tressure flory and counter-flory gules, a bend engrailed of the same.
The term is derived from the Arabic الفارس , meaning "knight" or "cavalier", and it was commonly Latinised as alferiz or alferis, although it was also translated into Latin as armiger or armentarius, meaning "armour-bearer".
The old coat of arms of the Portuguese town of Castelo Rodrigo, consisting of the coat of arms of Portugal inverted for the town's treachery in the 1383–1385 Crisis. An abatement (or rebatement) is a modification of a coat of arms, representing a less-than honorable augmentation, [1] [2] imposed by an heraldic authority (such as the Court of Chivalry in England) or by royal decree for ...