Bevilled

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Illustrations:

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[Illustration from Pensic Art Project]

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Sources:

Academy of St. Gabriel "Medieval Heraldry Archive" - [[1]] Archive of St. Gabriel reports - [[2]] Laurel Armory Articles - [[3]] Period Armorials

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#x--SENA Appendix F: Armorial Elements that Do Not Need Further Documentation:SENA Appendix F: Armorial Elements that Do Not Need Further Documentation:

A few complex lines of division that are allowed only with restrictions:

• bevilled: only allowed for per bend, per bend sinister, a bend and a bend sinister; use with charges around it is a step from period practice...

[http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/sena.html#AppendixF

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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Wiki - [[6]] (restatements of Precedents) Use the above links to be sure any precedents listed below haven't been superseded by newer precedents.

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From the August 1992 Cover Letter: The bevil made me do it. [[7]] Two of this month's submissions featured Per bend sinister bevilled,// and there was considerable discussion over whether the //bevilled treatment was used in period. The answer depends on whether one is speaking of an ordinary or a field division. The charge usually blazoned a bend bevilled// (figure A) is found in period armory, in the arms of Lorks, late 15th Century. It wasn't blazoned //bevilled// in period, however: Legh's Accidence of Armory, 1586, blazons it as a //bend double daunce.// The term appears to be a corruption of //double-downset,// with the second word confused with //dauncet (i.e. dancetty). All the mundane examples of a bend bevilled, or double-douncet, show it as in figure A; the charge is often misdrawn in Society emblazons as in figure B. The field division bevilled is also found in Legh -- but not in the form known today. Legh gives the field as in figure C, and says: "He beareth party per Bende Bevile, Argent and Purpure. Never charge this, for there cane bee no better cuned cote careed." I haven't yet determined whether this was an actual coat, or was one of Legh's inventions to illustrate his book; but he does make it clear that the bevilled field should not be charged. One of this month's submissions (Tyrkir von Bremen) went to some lengths to document the bevilled field division. Most of the pertinent examples were of coats with similar zig-zag field divisions: e.g. Fromberg, blazoned by Rietstap as Mi-coupé, failli en partant et recoupé vers senestre, d'argent sur gules (Half-per-fess, broken thus and continuing per fess towards the sinister, argent over gules)// . The citations from Woodward and Rietstap were of similar zig-zag field divisions; but the submission did not explicitly document //Per bend (sinister) bevilled. The examples it did cite, as with Legh's example, are uncharged. (Of the other citations, Parker's is of a chief bevilled, not a field division; and von Volborth's is simply from a list of complex lines, neither part of a coat nor even dated to period.) I could accept the field division as documented from Legh (figure C); even if not actually borne by some family, at least it appears in a period heraldic tract. From the examples of other zig-zag divisions, I could accept an extrapolation from the documented bend bevilled;// that would be drawn as in figure D. I might even accept them used with charges (in a balanced way), despite the indications that charges weren't used with these fields in period. But the submissions received this month both used charges, and both emblazoned the field treatment as in figure E. That variant of //bevilled is supported neither by direct evidence nor by extrapolation from the ordinary. A variant treatment might legitimately require a single leap of faith from period practice; but it shouldn't require two such leaps. In returning the two submissions this month, I have tried to leave open the usage of Per bend (sinister) bevilled for SCA use. If the gentles care to resubmit with correctly drawn bevilling (and perhaps a more balanced use of charges), the College would be pleased to consider them anew.

File:Http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/1992/08/bevilled.jpg

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(Restricted, Reserved, SFPP, OOP)

From the September 2012 LoAR: Emmelina van Westenberg. Per bend sinister bevilled azure and vert, a sun and a sewing needle bendwise sinister Or. [[8]] ... Regarding the use of a bevilled field charged with dissimilar charges, precedent says: > Even the documented per bend bevilled cannot, by Laurel precedent, be used with dissimilar charges. Legh, Accidences [sic] of Armory (1586), asserts that the field should not be charged at all. We have, as one step beyond period practice, allowed the field to be used with a single type of simple charge. The submitted device, however, would be at least two steps beyond period practice. [Béla Kós, 02/01, R-Outlands] This implies that the use of two differing types of charges in a single group is itself a step from period practice, which is not so. This, then, is double-jeopardy. We are hereby overturning this precedent, and allowing the use of charges on a field per bend bevilled// or //per bend sinister bevilled with a single step from period practice. [[9]]

#x--Precedents:-Collected Precedents:Collected Precedents:

Tenure of Elisabeth de Rossignol (May 2005 - July 2008) - [OF DIVISION -- Bevilled] 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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The Ordinary:

• listed under the relevant charge or line of division (eg. bendy, bordure, fess, etc.)