Irradiated

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A charge emitting rays of light

Illustrations:

Period source/s:

Cross irradiated or cross rayonnant, William Berry's Encyclopedia Heraldica 1828, courtesy of Coblaith Muimnech	BSB 391 Sammelband, 1530, a heart irradiated

Modern:

Pictorial Dictionary, 3rd edition:

• Cross Rayonnant

Vector Graphics:

Book of Traceable Heraldic Art

Sources:

• Academy of St. Gabriel "Medieval Heraldry Archive" - http://www.s-gabriel.org/heraldry/
• Archive of St. Gabriel reports - http://www.panix.com/~gabriel/public-bin/archive.cgi
• Laurel Armory Articles - http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/armory_articles.html

• New Heraldic Primer (Heraldry for Non-Heralds) - http://heraldry.sca.org/armory/newprimer/
• Pictorial Dictionary of Heraldry (PicDic), 3rd Edition - http://mistholme.com/pictorial-dictionary-of-heraldry
• Period Armorials

• Parker's Heraldry - http://karlwilcox.com/parker/
• Riestap's Armorial Général - http://www.euraldic.com/lasu/bl/bl_a_aa.html

Irradiation of Crosses (and other things) - http://coblaith.net/Heraldry/Crosses/modifications.html#irradiated

Precedents:

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Use the above links to be sure any precedents listed below haven't been superseded by newer precedents.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

(includes defaults, proper tinctures, blazoning)

February 2016 - proper drawing of en soleil or irradiated

Gwen Howell. Badge. (Fieldless) A pomegranate gules seeded Or slipped and leaved vert within and conjoined to a mascle gules irradiated Or. This badge is returned for redraw. Blazoned as en soleil, the mascle is not en soleil since that would have rays issuant from the entirety of its outline. We have registered charges en soleil, or to use the alternative term, irradiated, in the past, but always with the entire outer edge issuing solar rays. This is not en soleil, or irradiated, or any other equivalent term. Neither is it simply enflamed, since it has straight rays as well as wavy. This cannot be reliably or reproducibly blazoned, and therefore is not registerable.

Because of the rays issuing from the outer edge of the mascle, the design does not suffer from presumption upon the protected symbol of the Red Crystal, a symbol protected by treaty for the use of the International Committee of the Red Cross. We are protecting it as A gules mascle on any argent background or in any way that could be displayed on an argent background. We note that the presence of the pomegranate in the middle of the mascle would not be sufficient to prevent the presumption as, by international treaty, for indicative use on foreign territory, a national society which does not use one of the recognized symbols as its emblem has to incorporate its unique symbol into the Red Crystal.

http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2016/02/16-02lar.html#123

Registerability:

(Restricted, Reserved, SFPP, OOP)

Conflict:

November 2003 - irradiated charges CD from non-irradiated

#81Brigit Gilbertstoune. Badge. (Fieldless) A cross patonce azure. "...This does not conflict with Morgana Elisabetta Rosatti, (Fieldless) A cross fleury azure irradiated Or//. Irradiated charges, when drawn correctly, are a CD from non-irradiated charges. Brooke-Little's //An Heraldic Alphabet//, defines //irradiated as "Surrounded by rays of light. An irradiated charge is usually shown as if it were charged on a sun." The irradiated cross here is drawn appropriately, with very pronounced irradiation. There is thus one CD for fieldlessness, and a second CD for the irradiation."

• http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2003/11/03-11lar.html#81

Collected Precedents:

• 2nd Tenure of Elisabeth de Rossignol (April 2011 - August 2011) - Collected Armory Precedents
• 1st Tenure of Elisabeth de Rossignol (May 2005 - July 2008) - Collected Armory Precedents
• 2nd Tenure of François la Flamme (October 2004 - May 2005) - Collected Armory Precedents
• The Tenure of Shauna of Carrick Point (May 2004 - August 2004) - Collected Armory Precedents
• 1st Tenure of François la Flamme (August 2001 - April 2004) - Collected Armory Precedents
• The Tenure of Elsbeth Anne Roth (June 1999 - July 2001) - Collected Armory Precedents
• The Tenure of Jaelle of Armida (June 1996 - June 1999) - Single HTML Document
• 2nd Tenure of Da'ud ibn Auda (November 1993 - June 1996) -
  • the 1st part (Nov 1993 - June 1994) and
  • the 2nd part (July 1994 - June 1996)
• The Tenure of Bruce Draconarius of Mistholme (June 1992 - October 1993) - Collected precedents
• 1st Tenure of Da'ud ibn Auda (June 1990 - June 1992) -
  • the 1st year (June 1990 - June 1991) and
  • the 2nd year (July 1991 - June 1992)
• The Tenure of Alisoun MacCoul of Elphane (September 1986 - June 1990) - Collected Precedents
• The Tenure of Baldwin of Erebor (August 1984 - August 1986) - Single HTML Document
• The Tenure of Wilhelm von Schlüssel (August 1979 - August 1984) - Collected Precedents
• The Tenure of Karina of the Far West (December 1975 - June 1979) - Collected Precedents
• The Early Days (June 1971 - June 1975) - Collected Precedents

The Ordinary :

• Look up under the charge being irradiated