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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Esquire as ordinary Base esquire, after Robson (1830) [1]. The Esquire is a heraldic charge that is classed as a subordinary in Anglophone heraldry. [2] Its form is defined as resembling the Gyron, as formed of a right triangle; but, with the difference that whereas the Gyron extends from the outer edge of the field to the center, the Esquire extends across the whole of the field, from one ...
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