Wreath

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Glossary of Terms:[edit | edit source]

1) Title - The Wreath Sovereign of Arms, who is a principal heraldic officer of the Society after the Laurel Principal Sovereign of Arms.

[width="94" height="99" align="right" caption="[Laurel Wreath"]]

2) Charge - A wreath is a circular charge, with its chiefmost ends nearly touching. Two sprigs (straight branches) crossed to form a "V" is not a wreath. See the illustration for a depiction of a laurel wreath. http://heraldry.sca.org/coagloss.html

Illustrations:[edit | edit source]

Period source:[edit | edit source]

Siebmacher

"Wreath" in "An Ordinary of Siebmacher's Wappenbuch" - http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/heraldry/siebmacher/wreath.html

Modern:[edit | edit source]

Pictorial Dictionary of SCA Heraldry (3rd edition):[edit | edit source]

Pennsic Traceable Art Project:[edit | edit source]

Precedents:[edit | edit source]

Precedents of the SCA College of Arms - http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/precedents.html

Morsulus Heralds Website - http://www.morsulus.org/ (to search the LoARs and Precedents)

Use the above links to be sure any precedents listed below haven't been superseded by newer precedents.

Definition:[edit | edit source]

(includes defaults, proper tinctures, blazoning)

December 2013 LoAR - properly drawn:[edit | edit source]

Giggleswick, Riding of. Branch name and device. Azure, a water wheel within a laurel wreath argent, a ford proper. Commenters discussed whether or not the laurel wreath was open too wide at the top. A similar discussion occurred in April 2008, at which point Laurel ruled:

  • The laurel wreath in this case is well drawn, is circular in shape (not V-shaped), and is clearly identifiable as a wreath. In fact, it is closed more than the laurel wreath that appears on the SCA website. We are hereby overturning the previous precedents: laurel wreaths need to be circular but need not be nearly closed in order to be registerable. However, they still may not be drawn with anything other than a skinny charge between the tips of the wreath. [Sevenhills, Canton of, A-Atlantia, April 2008 LoAR]

http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2013/12/13-12lar.html#160


Registerability:[edit | edit source]

(Restricted, Reserved, SFPP, OOP)

Conflict:[edit | edit source]

Identifiability:>[edit | edit source]

February 1995 - no laurel wreaths lying as if on a bordure:[edit | edit source]

Three Towers, Marche of. Name and device. Argent, three towers sable within a laurel wreath vert, a bordure embattled azure. No petitions of populace support were included with the forms, as required by the Administrative Handbook. As a consequence, both name and device must be returned for lack of evidence of support. While similar to the Shire of Silfren Mere (SCA) Argent, a tower sable, its base environed of a laurel wreath vert, all within a bordure embattled azure, there are CDs for the number of primary charges and for the position of the laurel wreath on the field. Unfortunately, however, wreaths "lying as on a bordure" have been returned in the past; wreaths should be nearly circular in shape -- when they are not, their identification as wreaths becomes problematical. http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/1995/02/lar.html

June 1994 LoAR - too complex to counterchange over an ordinary:[edit | edit source]

"By current precedent, a laurel wreath is considered too complex a charge to be counterchanged over an ordinary." June 1994 LoAR

Collected Precedents:[edit | edit source]

In the Ordinary:[edit | edit source]

(includes chaplet, crown, garland, lei)