FReeper Canteen ~ A Day of Heraldry ~ August 17, 2006

The FReeper Canteen's Day of

~Heraldry~

Heraldry is the practice of designing, displaying, describing and recording coats of arms and badges, as well as the formal ceremonies and laws that regulate the use and inheritance of arms. The origins of heraldry lie in the need to distinguish participants in battles or jousts, whose faces were hidden by steel helmets.

In the U.S., the word "crest" is commonly used to refer to a coat-of-arms. However, in heraldry, a crest is just one component of a complete achievement of arms. The crest sits on top of a helmet, which itself sits on the main and most recognizable part of the arms, the shield or escutcheon. Other elements may include supporters holding up the shield and a motto beneath. Crests can in fact be used on their own (this is particularly useful when there is insufficient space to display the entire coat-of-arms); but where the shield alone is used it should never be called a "crest".

Heraldry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The knights in the Bayeux Tapestry from the late eleventh century carry no coats of arms, yet by the mid twelfth century personal badges were being used widely by nobility. By the reign of Henry III of England, arms were inherited, thus their judicial regulation became important. The practice of using marks of cadency arose, to distinguish one son from another, and was institutionalized and standardized by the fifteenth century.

In the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, heraldry became a highly developed discipline, regulated by professional heralds. As its use in jousts became obsolete (with the exception of rare revivals), arms remained popular for visually identifying a person in other ways — impressed in sealing wax on official documents, carved on a family tomb, and so forth. The first work of heraldic jurisprudence, De Insigniis et Armiis was written by a professor of law at the University of Padua, Bartolo of Sassoferrato, in the 1350s.

"Bartolo's book became popular in legal circles, but most heralds and knights did not speak the Latinate jargon in which De Insigniis et Armiis was written. Because of this linguistic divide, the field of heraldic law bifurcated. One was vernacular, and includes the works of Honoré Bonet and Christine de Pisan. The other remained in Latin, and, in Wales and England, is represented by the works of De Bado Aureo and Upton. This Latin continuation of heraldic legal thought spawned, in England, other vernacular heraldic texts, which are the direct antecedents of Tudor and modern studies of heraldry" (C. Levin)

Throughout the existence of heraldry, coats of arms have been executed in a wide variety of media, including painted wood, embroidery, enamel, stonework, stained glass and, later, computerised media. For this reason, and because its original function was quick recognition in the chaotic conditions of battle, heraldry for the most part distinguishes only six tinctures (yellow, white, red, blue, black and green; purple is counted in theory but its use in practice is marginal) and makes no fine distinctions in the precise size or placement of charges on the field, or the number of a lion's claws. Coats of arms and their accessories are described in a concise jargon called blazon, which for the most part ignores details that are conventional, and in nearly all cases details of varying artistic depictions, which tend to be small and not to help quick visual distinction. It should be noted that the property interest, if any is recognised, in the coat-of-arms inheres in the blazon and not in the particular depiction of the arms.

It is sometimes said that each element of a coat of arms has a conventional meaning, that white stands for honour, blue for loyalty and red for courage, and so on. While the original bearer of a coat may well have had some symbolism in mind, there is no reason to expect consistency from one to the next. In general it is impossible to say what a given coat of arms "means", unless, as is often the case, it incorporates a pun on the bearer's name.

The development of portable firearms made plate armor nearly useless, and heraldry, detached from its original function, gradually became more elaborate at the expense of clarity, both in content (e.g., landscapes representing battle sites became frequent in the 18th century) and in presentation (rococo frames overwhelming the content of the shield). The 20th century's taste for stark iconic emblems made the simple styles of early heraldry fashionable again.

Heraldry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

More on Heraldry coming in the next few weeks!!

Welcome to the Free Republic Canteen ~ honoring and entertaining our military and our allies and their families 24/7 every day of the year! A gentle reminder from Ms.B ~ please keep if family friendly and fun in the Canteen. We're here for our heroes and we want them to have a good time and not worry about all the political stuff going on. Pull up a chair, kick your feet up and relax!

To: Kathy in Alaska

cool woo hoos Ma
HUG
ms.b

181 posted on 08/16/2006 9:42:24 PM PDT by MS.BEHAVIN (women who behave rarely make history)

To: 2LT Radix jr; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; 80 Square Miles; A Ruckus of Dogs; acad1228; AirForceMom; ..

High Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.

Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,

Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
No 412 squadron, RCAF
Killed 11 December 1941

182 posted on 08/16/2006 9:43:17 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)

HI, SR!

free dixie,sw

183 posted on 08/16/2006 9:44:10 PM PDT by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)

Ive seen folks in Tx raising wolf hybrids.
Theyre generally pretty wild and stay caged up.

Im not sure why youd want a critter like that.
King was cool though. Good thing too cuz he could mess you up if he wasnt trained

184 posted on 08/16/2006 9:44:24 PM PDT by mylife (the roar of the masses could be farts)

To: Mrs.Nooseman

Nighty-night. Grab that third mouseketeer and we'll have some fun! :D

185 posted on 08/16/2006 9:46:19 PM PDT by luvie ("I want our troops to understand that not only does the country support them, but--we'll win! GWB)

186 posted on 08/16/2006 9:47:13 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)

Yes, I did. An Acer Aspire 3610. And I have worked like crazy trying to get everything set back up, downloaded, transferred, etc. Some of my e-mail files didn't transfer, but my friend found them and is bringing them to me. It is a relief. I had stored a lot of my html work in e-mail! Yark!

187 posted on 08/16/2006 9:48:04 PM PDT by luvie ("I want our troops to understand that not only does the country support them, but--we'll win! GWB)

Oh beautiful...
Thank you Sandy
HUG
ms.b

188 posted on 08/16/2006 9:48:55 PM PDT by MS.BEHAVIN (women who behave rarely make history)

You an dat loup garou!
It really gives you the willies doesnt it?
L0L

189 posted on 08/16/2006 9:49:32 PM PDT by mylife (the roar of the masses could be farts)

Oh, Sandy...*sigh*...that is one of my very favorite poems. I made a table of it to welcome David home on the Canteen, and it is lost because of my new computer losing some of my work. Thanks for the ping! :D

190 posted on 08/16/2006 9:49:46 PM PDT by luvie ("I want our troops to understand that not only does the country support them, but--we'll win! GWB)

222D FIELD ARTILLERY REGIMENT

DISTINCTIVE UNIT INSIGNIA

COAT OF ARMS

Distinctive Unit Insignia. Description: A silver and gold color metal and enamel device 1 1/8 inches (2.86 cm) in height overall consisting of the figure of the Mormon Battalion monument in gold color metal superimposed on a silver color metal and transparent enamel background in the outline of the monument.

Symbolism: The monument represented is that erected by the State of Utah on the Capitol grounds, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Background: The distinctive unit insignia was originally approved for the 222d Field Artillery Regiment, Utah National Guard on 8 May 1933. It was redesignated for the 222d Field Artillery Battalion, Utah National Guard on 26 August 1942. It was redesignated for the 222d Artillery Regiment, Utah National Guard on 9 May 1961. The insignia was redesignated for the 222d Field Artillery Regiment, Utah Army National Guard on 24 July 1972.

Coat of Arms.

Blazon:

Shield: Gules, on a canton Or a palm tree on a mount Proper between a prickly pear cactus and a fleur-de-lis of the field.

Crest: That for the regiments and separate battalions of the Utah Army National Guard: On a wreath of the colors Or and Gules a bee hive beset with seven bees, all Proper.

Motto: SERVE THE GUNS UNSHRINKINGLY.

Symbolism:

Shield: The shield is red for Artillery. The Regiment traces its history through some of its individual companies, whose service is indicated in the canton. The palm tree represents the baptism of fire during the Philippine Insurrection, while the cactus and fleur-de-lis denote Mexican Border and World War I service.

Crest: The crest is that of the Utah Army National Guard.

Background: The coat of arms was originally approved for the 222d Field Artillery Regiment, Utah National Guard on 28 April 1933. It was redesignated for the 222d Field Artillery Battalion, Utah National Guard on 22 July 1942. It was redesignated for the 222d Artillery Regiment, Utah National Guard on 9 May 1961. The insignia was redesignated for the 222d Field Artillery Regiment, Utah Army National Guard on 24 July 1972.

191 posted on 08/16/2006 9:50:43 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)

I'm sort of smiling....how's that? LOL!! Today was VERY busy, but we put off printing checks so we had some extra time to spend looking at the edits to see how right they were.....haven't had time to do that in months. Got a lot of corrections made. And if the majority of them took, then no 2 days of h*ll trying to make corrections after the fact, which is what we have been doing for 7 1/2 months.

Sooooooo.....a pretty good day. d:o)

How about you?

192 posted on 08/16/2006 9:50:48 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ God Bless and Protect Our Brave Protectors of Freedom~)

I bet King coulda messed ya up..
How much did he weigh..
ms.b

193 posted on 08/16/2006 9:50:49 PM PDT by MS.BEHAVIN (women who behave rarely make history)

hug right back at ya

194 posted on 08/16/2006 9:51:27 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)

Icky critter! I just scrolled past your post. Now I'll have nightmares! LOL!

195 posted on 08/16/2006 9:51:33 PM PDT by luvie ("I want our troops to understand that not only does the country support them, but--we'll win! GWB)

Im still recovering here. Yark! it is a lot of work.

I got my 2nd 19" widescreen LCD monitor today, Wh00h00!

Im glad youre almost back

196 posted on 08/16/2006 9:51:57 PM PDT by mylife (the roar of the masses could be farts)

197 posted on 08/16/2006 9:52:33 PM PDT by luvie ("I want our troops to understand that not only does the country support them, but--we'll win! GWB)

198 posted on 08/16/2006 9:52:33 PM PDT by luvie ("I want our troops to understand that not only does the country support them, but--we'll win! GWB)

199 posted on 08/16/2006 9:52:33 PM PDT by luvie ("I want our troops to understand that not only does the country support them, but--we'll win! GWB)

200 posted on 08/16/2006 9:52:34 PM PDT by luvie ("I want our troops to understand that not only does the country support them, but--we'll win! GWB)

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