Chain

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Illustrations:

Period source/s:

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

Pictorial Dictionary of SCA Heraldry (3rd edition):

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Brickbat's Armorial Stash - [[2]]:

Pennsic Traceable Art Project

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Sources:

Academy of St. Gabriel "Medieval Heraldry Archive" - http://www.s-gabriel.org/heraldry/ Archive of St. Gabriel reports - [[3]] Laurel Armory Articles - http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/armory_articles.html

Pictorial Dictionary of Heraldry (PicDic), 3rd Edition - @http://mistholme.com/pictorial-dictionary-of-heraldry (in progress) Period Armorials

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Precedents:

Precedents of the SCA College of Arms - [[4]] Morsulus Heralds Website - [[5]] (to search the LoARs and Precedents) Restatement Wiki - [[6]] (restatements of Precedents) Use the above links to be sure any precedents listed below haven't been superseded by newer precedents.

Registerability:

(Restricted, Reserved, SFPP, OOP)

From the August 2006 Cover Letter:

FROM LAUREL - A Clarification Regalia for the Order of Knighthood includes (Tinctureless) A circular chain. This means a circular chain of any tincture, not just gold. It was so designated by Laurel in 1998, so there is nothing new here. Wreath tells me that some have interpreted this to mean that any necklace, whether or not it is unadorned, should be restricted. That is not the case. A necklace with a pendant is not the same as a knight's chain and there should be no question of improper use of a restricted charge in such a submission.

[2006 LoAR Cover Letter]

Conflict:

On Ordinaries of Chain

This month we were asked to consider potential conflict between a saltire of chain and a saltire.

Saltires of chain are not new to Society armory, but notably appear in period armory such as the arms of Benini, Or, a saltire of chain gules found in Insignia Florentinorum, BSB Cod.icon. 277, f.26r. (https://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00001424/image_59), and the arms of Castiglionchio, Argent, a saltire of chain azure, from Priorista, ou catal. des prieurs de Florence, par famille, avec les armoiries, Bibliothèque municipale de Auxerre 103, c 1535 Italian (https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/iiif/23901/canvas/canvas-2377439/view), f. 91v, and other saltires of chain are borne by Alberti, Benci, Fantoni, Tegna, Volognano, and Zati.

In addition, multiple chains bendwise (i.e. bendlets of chain) can be found in the arms of Bancozzo, Centinaia, Gerini, and Tizzoni. Giamboni bears Argent, a cross of chain sable between four mullets Or. Canacci bears Gules, a pall of chain sable, sometimes with a dog's head in chief.

In none of these cases is there any evidence of families of the same name bearing plain ordinaries instead.

Aside from Insignia Florentinorum, sources for the above include:

• Florentine Priorista, c. 1530 Italian (Chicago, Newberry VAULT Case MS folio J 035 .714) (https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/digital/collection/nby_dig/id/21753)*

Priorista, ou catal. des prieurs de Florence, par famille, avec les armoiries, c 1535 Italian (Auxerre, Bibliothèque municipale, 103) (http://medium-avance.irht.cnrs.fr/ark:/63955/md311n79h689)

• The Priori of Florence, c. 1583-1595 Italian (Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, Banco rari. 22-23) (https://teca.bncf.firenze.sbn.it/ImageViewer/servlet/ImageViewer?idr=BNCF00004585787, https://teca.bncf.firenze.sbn.it/ImageViewer/servlet/ImageViewer?idr=BNCF00004585788)

Thanks are due Iago Coquille for the citations above.

Given this and the cited evidence of charges of chain generally, we consider there to be an SC between an ordinary and an ordinary of chain. https://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2020/12/20-12cl.html

Collected Precedents:

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

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In the Ordinary (as of 4/2012):

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