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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 ...
At the end of the 14th century, the current design is recorded. The family scattered in various parts of the country over the next century. One branch of the family, which later moved to the Colony of Virginia, settled in Northamptonshire, England. In 1592, Robert Cook, Clarenceux King of Arms confirms upon Lawrence Washington of Sulgrave Manor ...
The Pennsylvania coat of arms features a shield crested by a North American bald eagle, flanked by horses, and adorned with symbols of Pennsylvania's strengths—a ship carrying state commerce to all parts of the world; a clay-red plough, a symbol of Pennsylvania's rich natural resources; and three golden sheaves of wheat, representing fertile fields and Pennsylvania's wealth of human thought ...
Shield: Argent, two bars and in chief three mullets gules. Crest: Out of a crest-coronet a raven rising wings elevated and addorsed proper. Motto: Exitus Acta Probat (The outcome is the test of the act). [3] See also: Coat of arms of the Washington family. Arms of John Adams, 2nd president, 1797–1801
Lee Family Coat of Arms Description: “Gules, a fesse chequy or and azure between ten billets argent, four in chief, and three, two and one in base”. (On a red shield a broad horizontal bar composed of three rows of alternating blue and gold squares between ten silver oblong figures, four in the top part of the shield and six in the lower ...
[9] [10] Male (shield-shaped) and female (lozenge-shaped) coats of arms in relief in Southwark, London. In English heraldry, the lozenge has been used by women since the 13th century [11] for the display of their coats of arms instead of the escutcheon or shield, which are associated with warfare. In this case the lozenge is shown without crest ...
The use of the crest and torse independently from the rest of the achievement, a practice which became common in the era of paper heraldry, has led the term "crest" to be frequently but erroneously used to refer to the arms displayed on the shield, or to the achievement as a whole.
The iconic and imposing coat of arms of El Salvador has Medieval Gothic and Greco-Roman influences, [2] as well as masonic, geographical, biblical, and American Indian symbolic representations, all of which come together in a distinctive, stylized heraldry crest emblem shield design.