Post your favorite coat of arms/heraldry
>>1372786
I'll bump this. I'm no heraldry buff but I'd like to see more of it.
Arms of the British statesman George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham.
>>1372948
>dat inbreeding
>>1372948
what the fuck
>>1372948
It's one step from a hypercube of a coat of arms.
>>1372948
For clarification this coat of arms has 719 quarterings.
>>1372948
How many fucking families can one guy be part of
A lot of these aren't even English
probably my favorite, the black prince's "shield for peace"
>>1372948
Yo dawg
>>1372948
Now that is some lineage
Richelieu's heraldry was pretty cool
>>1372786
plebs all of you
plebs all of you
>>1372786
It's pretty funny when you think the English coat of arms had two symbols on it, and none of them was English
How cucked can a country be?
and that's it for binland
>>1373646
12/10 desu sempai
It's a real shame that France no longer uses their France moderne arms. It may be a republic but Portugal kept theirs arms when they overthrew their monarch.
[spoiler]10/10 coat of arms imo[/spoiler]
>>1373656
I think this still looks pretty good
>>1373656
at least we're not faggots with lions on their coat of arms despite lions being nowhere near present in fucking scandinavia.
Proud to be French on that regard desu. Flowers ftw.
>>1373649
We have a fugton of municipalities, and every single one may have their own coat of arms, if they wish.
You can find all of them in -> https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suomen_kunnanvaakunat - if you care
We do have some remnants of aristocracy too, but I couldn't name a single family myself. They might've been relevant before independence, but almost never after that.
>>1372966
isn't it the opposite? I think those are originally the coats of arms of his ancestors from a lot of various families.
>>1372786
this guy's job was to neuter a prince's cattle, and for his service, he was raised to nobility by his master. this is the coa he got.
>>1373632
quite the opposite of being cucked as a country. Those symbols represented that they had claim to those lands.
>>1373018
I love the ich dien part for some reson
>>1373914
it means "I serve"
>>1373924
yes i know :)
>>1373890
>hammer
Poor bulls.
>>1373890
Best coat of arms ever
>>1373939
a nuttcracker or something similar was also used sometimes. it allowed for a cleaner cut
>>1373896
They had claims on those lands because England was ruled by foreigners from those lands
Yep, that's cuckolding
>>1373998
well every single european land was ruled by foreigners at that time if you go back far enough.
>>1374014
Yeah, but England pushed it to an unprecedented extend
>>1373998
>cuckolding
please use big boy words.
>>1374177
>cnut the great
>english
that's wrong on so many levels
>>1373632
Three actually.
- one lion for Anjou
- two lions for Normandy
- fleurs de lis for France
They didn't even bother to put anything in there to represent England: literally the Angevin possession they cared the least about.
We have to go cuckder.
>>1374177
>Tudors
>Welsh
Please
>>1373632
Why? Their Royal coats of arms not national ones, they just list the territories they govern or claim right to govern at any rate, here's my favourite version when Mary I married Phillip II.
>>1374398
>they just list the territories they govern
Lol yeah, and they didn't even bother including England. England isn't even relevant enough to be included on their own kings' coat of arms, that's pretty cuck.
>>1374430
One of the lions is for England the other's are for Normandy and Aquitaine.
>>1374449
Two of the lions are for Normandy, none is for England
Always liked the simplicity of the French coat of arms.
>>1374465
You could have looked for an actual CoA.
Not a single point due lazyness.
>>1374461
The 2 lion was the symbol of the House of Normandy which went extinct in the 1130s, the 3 lions only adopted as a symbol of Richard I about 70 years later.
Though looking it up I prefer the arms of Edward the Confessor to the 3 lions.
>>1372948
>a coat of arms to surpass metal gear
>>1374449
Wrong.
The two lions were for Normandy, then the Angevins added the lion of Anjou making three lions. There's nothing about England.
>>1372948
>muh heritage
>>1372786
I know it's not technically a coat of arms, but c'mon, you gotta respect a cool emblem
Aesthetic af
I like the unicorns
Afonso of Kongo's is pretty cool, apparently it was inspired by a victory his army won over Kongo traditionalists who were mad at him for converting to Christianity
>His victory was attributed to a miracle which is described by the chronicler Paiva Manso stating the army of Mpanzu a Kitima, though outnumbering Afonso, fled in terror at the sight of a heavenly apparition of Saint James the Great and five heavenly armored horsemen in the sky.
Hence the five arms with swords I guess
>>1373018
There's only one black Prince, and his name is Edward I
>>1373611
What is that Hilary of house Clinton, following the defeat of Russia by her hands
>>1374394
They were though. They were even involved in the Glyn Dwr rising...
My actual family crest.
>>1375119
i dont belive you
>>1372786
My country may be nothing special, but at least it has the coolest coat of arms.
>>1375198
>>1375119
yes you better give me your name and adress you fgt
>>1374523
WUZ
>>1375184
habeeb it
>>1375119
>>1374816
actually he would've been edward IV if he had been made king
>>1372948
>1st Marquess of Buckingham.
and hopefully the last. Jesus fuck man
>>1376591
He's referring to how badass the actual Edward I was, but you're right in that the painting he posted is of Edward the Black Prince
Mine!
>>1372948
Neat
>inb for ants
>>1375470
Annexing Belarus and Western Ukraine when?
>>1377701
>>1377701
Why is cologne and Brandenburg mentioned two times?
>>1377730
Inbreeding
>>1376785
are you trying to say that "The Black Prince" isn't an acceptable name?
I really like this one and it's the same as the flag which is nice
pre-Kuomintang republican China
>>1373270
All I see is
>no body expects the Spanish Inquisition
>>1373685
I've always wondered how lion symbolism became so popular in Europe. I know nothing about animals and where they live, but I always though lions were subsaraharan Africa and a few in the Persia/west India area. I can see maybe Romans knowing about lions (they had them in their games), is that how it spread to Europe?
>>1377720
Pretty sweet
>>1378242
Through bestiaries and the Bible.
For example, the Throne of Solomon is flanked by Lions.
Pic related is king Alfonso VI of Castile in a throne with... Lions.
>>1378267
And centuries later, the Spanish Throne, shows... Lions.
https://youtu.be/MW0yfP525Wc?t=1723
>>1374461
3 lions represents England as thats what it came to represent after John the Dumbass lost the Angevin's French holdings and England started to set into its island mentality
>>1378270
The lion standing on a globes a fairly common symbol, I assume it represents a country's domination over the world.
>https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=lion+globe&biw=1920&bih=955&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjlrPTqjt_NAhWiK8AKHYsNC90Q_AUIBigB#tbm=isch&q=lion+globe+statue
>>1378066
> C C C C
Serbia confirmed.
http://heraldica.hypotheses.org/1770
lots of cool shit
>>1372786
Odrowąż, easily. Not only because I'm a descendant of the Odrowąż, also because fuck. It's an arrow through a mustache. Our family got it from ripping the face off a pagan. Can that be topped?
Any other CoAs that tell a story by themselves?
So flamboyant. So perfectly flamboyant.
It's a gryphon--you don't get more hyperborean than that.
But sometimes easy is best.
The open steppe, fleet horse, falcons at your wrist, and the wind in your hair...
Snow leopards are the cutest panthers.
>>1379212
>>1379218
>>1379230
>>1379233
>>1379256
>>1379258
absolutely disgusting
>>1379329
>being this pleb
>>1379359
still better then that last one with the weird bear-rabbit hybrid thing.
>>1379329
Really? That's what you post? A leg on a head?
>>1379516
What about some fish?
>>1374465
The French aren't surrender monkeys theyre actually a bunch of murdering bastards
>>1379645
we's good bois we dindu nuffin
>>1379359
>number 18
medieval decorators were fucking hilarious
Brandenburg
Also, how hasn't this been posted yet?
>>1379976
>the eagle on the eagle's shield doesn't have another eagle on its shield
wasted potential
Strong in faith and war
>>1372786
Anyone here have a family crest? How common is it?
>>1380108
>>1373876
in a first view: yes
when you look closer, you realise that a lot of the coats in that coat are repeated several times ( the one of black field with golden eagle, the one with golden field with three red arcs, the one with black field and three silver things like heads, the one with blue field and silver wolf head, etc)
>>1379516
i like more the one with the hand. if i were him i would have made the helm have a big fuck you on the top
>>1379329
>disgusting
>totally stoned goose with golden wings
>upside down leg
>what the fuck is the big one on the right???
>head with a helm with a head
>an arm
>an alpacca????
>wired fish-goose
>a black palmtree
>a fucking turnip???
>a fucking brocoli???
>a head with a helm with a helm
>i hope those are flails
>mickey mouse on crack
>>1380108
this is mine. as long as your name is not a patronimic (-son in anglosaxon last names, -ez in hispanics, -ich -ova in slavics, mac- in gaelic, etc) or a very generic name like a simple attribute or job (black, smith, etc) there is a big chance you descend from at least a lesser noblity house (some mayor of a town or something low like that, those were a shitload of houses).
i found this simply by googleing my name and "escudo de armas". appeared directly in google image and found some forums of spanish (im from argentina) that had consesnus that it was in fact the carreira coat of arms.
i wish i could find a motto as well but couldn't
>>1380967
that's not how it works pal, but if it makes you feel good with yourself, nice arms you got ;)))
>>1381095
then enlighten me how it does?
This be my coat of arms
>>1379329
># 7 le sarcastic parrot xD
>>1380934
>what the fuck is the big one on the right???
heraldic achievement of the kings of Navarra. The crest contains fancily arranged peacock feathers
WE
>>1381210
Leonor pls go this is a 18+ website.
>>1380108
My family has one, but they were just tulip merchants lel
>In the late Middle Ages in the Netherlands, coats of arms were apparently not controlled by any official heraldic system as they were in England, nor were they used exclusively by the nobility. Anyone could design and use a coat of arms, and thus many burgers or merchants had coats of arms, although they were not members of the nobility.
the best
>>1382570
If somone has a moor on their shield it means they fought with bravery or took many enemy heads in the crusades
>>1382570
WUZ
>>1382600
In this case it's because moors attacked the island.
>>1380108
You people need to understand that just because you have a certain name doesnt mean you can bear the coat of arms of that name...
Otherwise every plebeian in the middle ages would have a coat of arms...
>>1379976
Because it sucks
>>1382853
considering plebians were cannonmeat for centuries while nobility liked to have lots of children (even bastards) it's safe to say a good chunk of nowday humanity (with european ancestors) descend from som nobility.
also remember that humanity grows exponentiality so if a noble had two children and so on, in just six generations we have 64 descendand from only one noble
>>1382869
You suck
> being to pleb to design your coat of arms himself or to poor to pay official heraldmeister to do that
I like the Italian ones, they are pretty pleasing to look upon.
>>1372948
>AND THIS...IS TO GO EVEN FURTHER BEYOND
>>1381173
not same guy here, but a family's coat of arms doesn't belong to everyone with that last name: there are records of who did the family leader give the arms to and there is a precise lineage of owners.
if everyone with the same last name had a coat of arms, heck i did a quick google search and i would have about 8 different arms with Duval or Duvall on it, but in reality i don't have any
Only in Russia
>>1378242
Europe had lions.
>>1383532
name literally means "pillar (village)"
>>1383333
first: nice quads
second: what you say happens with high nobility (not saying it doesn't happens in low nobility but it's not that normal). also, there can easily be more than one coat of arms for the same last name. maybe two families with a sort of common last name had coat of arms, maybe these are branches from a main branch, each with one coat of arms or maybe just a really common name (maybe duval means something in german or some old language) and lots of families of this name had coat of arms.
third: as >>1382584 said, in late middle ages coats were not controlled and so happen in most of europe by renaissence and early modern era so much that burgers or anyone with some money to spend on an artist to design and pain a coat of arms for him could get one and simple by hanging it on his household or printing it on some document can make it go through history. maybe my family comes just from one merchant from guadix wich made good money once and decided to spend it on a coat of arms or maybe i come from the mayor of aljarax in 1324
>>1383483
WE WUZ
>>1383550
yes but acording to greek writters they were pretty rare by classic greece and dissapeared from europe close to 100AD, there were no coat of arms or kings close to that area and time to take it as symbol like that
Get on my level hoes
>>1383949
Italian ones are truly amusing
>>1383950
>judenburg
Is it a jewish town?
>>1383974
It was once jewish trading outpost, then it become real town named Judenburg i.e. Jewtown
>>1374430
Not surprised. England starts with much lower development than French lands in 1444
>>1384711
> tfw this shit is recursive
>>1384567
yeah, and the gaps only further widened by the burgundian inheritance
>>1383941
>>1378242
Here's what good old wiki had to say
>The animal designs in the heraldry of the high medieval period are a continuation of the animal style of the Viking Age, ultimately derived from the style of Scythian art as it developed from c. the 7th century BC.[2] Symmetrically paired animals in particular find continuation from Migration Period art via Insular art to Romanesque art and heraldry.
>The animals of the "barbarian" (Eurasian) predecessors of heraldic designs are likely to have been used as clan symbols.[3] Adopted in Germanic tradition around the 5th century,[4] they were re-interpreted ina Christian context in the western kingdoms of Gaul and Italy in the 6th and 7th centuries. The characteristic of the lion as royal animal in particular is due the influence of the Physiologus, an early Christian book about animal symbolism, originally written in Greek in the 2nd century and translated into Latin in about AD 400. It was a predecessor of the medieval bestiaries.
>In the Middle Ages, when lions became a major element in heraldry, few Europeans had any chance to see actual lions. The lions were for them nearly as much legendary animals as were dragons or gryffins, which also commonly appeared on coats of arms.
>>1384776
i don't understand if you are agreeign with what i said or you are vey dumb and try to disproove me using things that agree with what i said.
>>1372786
These are cool.
Judenburg desu
>>1384828
Not everyone's arguing with you reddit, I just saw the conversation and posted some info
>>1384872
but he quoted me and i don't understand why
My Italian Family Crest. What do you cunts think?
Always and forever
>>1385024
Pretty bland.
>>1385024
How does your family now compare to back then? I'm Byzantine nobility but an asshole ancestor gambled everything we had. Also no crest, because no culture of crests ;__;
>>1385053
You can just draw it yourself and place whenever you can.
>>1385057
Meh, that sounds a little bit American.
t. Totally not someone who just tried to make their own crest on makeyourcoatofarms.com
>>1385095
> makeyourcoatofarms.com
I am a humble man, not some kind of divine blood emperor of 9 kingdoms. Paint was enough for me.
>>1385267
What's the symbolism behind it? Looks 1000 times better than the one I made lel.
>>1385267
Looks like a luxury sex toy brand desu
r8 my hometowns coat of arms
>>1374465
Speaking of
>>1385311
> What's the symbolism behind it?
> I have seen the truth without vision, obviously.
> Vereor Vidi Veritas Vacuus Visum, Videlicet
I am mathematician. So, I just slapped five roman numerals of five into some sort of personal fractal, that resembling huge roman five. This is why coat uses pentagon as a shield.
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French
>>1379359
Its like that knight fighting giant snails, its a medieval meme
árpád stripes are nice
>>1373890
>Heraldry originated in the European battlefields of the Middle Ages as decorated shields as a means of identification and is derived from the earlier practice in such places as Greece and elsewhere to instill fear in the enemy. The shield above identifies the family and most definitely instills fear in any male that gazes upon them!
>>1373646
If a tully married a baratheon and thook the throne
>>1374177
>English are an ethnicity
WHEN WILL THIS MEME END
![545px-COA_fr_Vannes_56.svg[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/XABe8NN.png "545px-COA_fr_Vannes_56.svg[1].png")
I fucking love the Breton ermine COAs. Vannes especially.
The arms of the Dag Och Natt family of Sweden - literally 'Day and Night'. The arms are canting.
