Branch (Charge)

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Illustrations:

Period:

Grapevine involved, redorte, rose branch involved:

Wappenbuch
Wappenbuch de Arleberg-Bruderschaft, Virgil Raber, 1548, f9r, a grapevine involved (in a spiral)	Siebmacher 1605, a redorte (stylized twisted branches), FB image courtesy of Rayne Evynwod.	Siebmacher 1605, a rose slipped and involved, FB image courtesy of Rayne Evynwod.

Modern:

Pictorial Dictionary, 3rd edition:

• @http://mistholme.com/pictorial-dictionary-of-heraldry

Vector Graphics:

• Viking Answer Lady - http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/Stars/Heraldry_SVG_Images/index.htm

====Brickbat's Armorial Stash====
* [[1]]:

Pennsic Traceable Art Project:

• [Ash]
• [Olive (fructed)]
• [Rose]

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Sources:

Academy of St. Gabriel "Medieval Heraldry Archive" - http://www.s-gabriel.org/heraldry/ Archive of St. Gabriel reports - [[2]] 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 (in progress) Period Armorials Parker's Heraldry - http://karlwilcox.com/parker/

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Precedents:

Precedents of the SCA College of Arms - [[3]] Morsulus Heralds Website - [[4]] (to search the LoARs and Precedents) Restatement Wiki - [[5]] (restatements of Precedents) Use the above links to be sure any precedents listed below haven't been superseded by newer precedents.

Definition:

October 1976 - slip vs sprig vs whatever:

A "slip" is a twig with three leaves. If with five it may be called a "sprig." "These rules are not rigorously followed," says Parker. (KFW, 22 Oct 76 [8], p. 9)

• http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/precedents/karina/ptoz.html#slip

Registerability:

(Restricted, Reserved, SFPP, OOP)

Conflict:

February 2009 - spring vs leaves in pall:

Ellen Hughes. Azure, on a pale between two domestic cats combatant argent, three holly leaves conjoined in pall inverted vert fructed gules. While the orientation of the sprig is a blazonable detail, sprigs are depicted in so many orientations, both in the SCA and in period armory, that orientation of the sprigs is not worth difference.

• http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2009/02/09-02lar.html

February 1995 - plant vs slip:

Plant-Miscellaneous [a Mugwort plant vert vs a slip of three leaves vert and an almond slip fructed proper and Rose-wort proper and St. John's wort proper] In each case there is a CD for the field, but nothing for either the type or tincture of the foliage. (Alysoun Beauchamp, 2/95 p. 11)

• http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/precedents/daud2/armm2q.html

July 1993 - slips vs. branches:

The difference granted for the slipping and leaving of flowers is one of our perennial problems [as it were]. The practice seems to have been uncommon in medieval armory; of the rare examples that had been discovered, none seemed to demonstrate a cadency change --- that is, the change one would expect to see between the arms of a cadet branch of a family and those of the main branch. For that reason, we've granted no difference between, say, a rose and a rose slipped and leaved. Nonetheless, there have been suggestions that we should grant a CD for slipping and leaving, when the slip is so large as to constitute the majority of the charge --- in effect, when the charge is better blazoned a branch with a flower rather than a flower with a stem. I've found period evidence supporting this suggestion, in the arms of the Counts of Rapperswil, c.1232: D'or a treis rosers sur checkune roser une rose de goules checkune roser verte (Or, three rose branches vert, on each rose branch a rose gules). The comital line went extinct in 1283, but rosiers (rose branches) are still found in the modern arms of Rapperswilstadt, in the Swiss canton of St. Gall: Argent, in fess two rose branches vert, each with a rose gules. These are drawn just as they're blazoned: large stems (few or no leaves) with small roses. They are clearly artistic variations on branches, nor roses. (Anglo-Norman Armory I], p.442; Early Blazon, p.270; 10000 Wappen von Staaten und Städten, p.288.) In cases that follow this example, I will register the plant as a branch with a flower. Moreover, I intend to grant a Substantial Difference (i.e., sufficient to invoke Rule X.2) between a branch (flowered or not) and a flower//. Slipped flowers drawn with the flower dominant will still be considered negligibly different from a plain flower. Flowers whose slips are part of the definition (e.g., //trefoil//, //thistle//) will not get extra difference for the slip. I welcome suggestions on how we should count difference between flowered branches (e.g., between a //branch vert with a rose gules// and a //branch vert with an iris gules); it should be at most a single CD, but I'm not convinced we could even grant that. I think this new definition will bring us closer to period usage, and ease up a bit on conflict. It will also, I concede, make it temporarily harder to interpret old SCA blazons ("It says rose slipped. Does this conflict with a rose, or with a branch?"), but we can reblazon devices with branches as they come up in commentary. (24 July, 1993 Cover Letter (June, 1993 LoAR), pg. 7)

• http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/precedents/bruce/blazon.html#blazon-31

September 1992 - types of sprigs:

[A branch of rosemary// vs. //sprig of three bluebells] There's [not a CD] for type of sprig. There were also a number of other conflicts, all based on granting no difference for type of sprig: e.g., [a slip of three leaves], or [a sprig of parsley]. (Mairin ferch Howell, September, 1992, pg. 40)

• http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/precedents/bruce/pile.html#plant-sprig

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) - BRANCH //see also// PLANT

The 2nd Tenure of François la Flamme (October 2004 - May 2005) - Collected Armory Precedents The Tenure of Shauna of Carrick Point (May 2004 - August 2004) - [Armory Precedents] The Tenure of François la Flamme (August 2001 - April 2004) - [Armory Precedents] The Tenure of Elsbeth Anne Roth (June 1999 - July 2001) - [Armory Precedents] The Tenure of Jaelle of Armida (June 1996 - June 1999) - [HTML Document] The 2nd Tenure of Da'ud ibn Auda (November 1993 - June 1996) -

• [1st part] (Nov 1993 - June 1994) and
• [2nd part] (July 1994 - June 1996)

The Tenure of Bruce Draconarius of Mistholme (June 1992 - October 1993) - [[6]]

The 1st Tenure of Da'ud ibn Auda (June 1990 - June 1992) -

• [1st year] (June 1990 - June 1991) and
• [2nd year] (July 1991 - June 1992)

The Tenure of Alisoun MacCoul of Elphane (September 1986 - June 1990) - [Precedents] The Tenure of Baldwin of Erebor (August 1984 - August 1986) - [HTML Document] The Tenure of Wilhelm von Schlüssel (August 1979 - August 1984) - [Precedents] The Tenure of Karina of the Far West (December 1975 - June 1979) - [Precedents] The Early Days (June 1971 - June 1975) - [Precedents]

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In the Ordinary:

• [branch] (includes alk slip)