Editing Primary Charge Group

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The most important group of charges in a piece of armory. In blazons, the primary charge group is usually mentioned immediately after the field (though a strewn charge group is not primary when it is blazoned before a central charge group). If there is a central ordinary lying entirely on the field, it is the primary charge. If there is no such central ordinary, then the primary charge group is the set of charges of the same size that lie in the center of the design and directly on the field. An overall charge can never be the primary charge. In any piece of armory with charges there will always be a primary charge group, unless the only charges are peripheral. There cannot be more than one primary charge group in any given design. In ''Gules, a pale between two mullets argent'', the pale is the primary charge. In ''Or, a maunche between three roundels azure'' the maunche is the primary charge. In ''Per chevron argent and sable, two roses and a fleur-de-lys counterchanged and on a chief purpure three hearts argent'', the roses and fleur-de-lys are the primary charge group, because they are all of about the same size and in a standard arrangement. In ''Azure semy of mullets and a chief argent'' the strewn mullets are the primary charge group; in ''Azure semy of mullets, an eagle and a chief argent'' the eagle is the primary charge. In ''Sable, a lion Or, overall a bend argent,'' the lion is the primary charge. In ''Azure, a chief Or'' there is no primary charge group. ''See also'' [[Overall Charge Group]], [[Peripheral Charge Group]], [[Secondary Charge Group]], [[Semy]], [[Tertiary Charge Group]].

* http://heraldry.sca.org/coagloss.html

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