Azure and Gules
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Basic Information:[edit | edit source]
Many combinations of azure and gules (blue and red), especially azure on gules and gules on azure, would be considered low contrast and would be un-registerable using the Core Style rules. They would have to be registered as an Individually Attested Pattern formerly known as a Regional Style Exception.
See SENA - http:heraldry.sca.org/sena.html#A4
Blog with collection of IAP submissions from January 2007 through October 2020 - http://blog.heraldicart.org/catalog-of-iap-submissions/
Period Examples:[edit | edit source]
Link to Spreadsheet of Tincture IAPs on Google Docs - [[1]] Form to add new examples to the Tincture IAP Spreadsheet - https:docs.google.com/forms/d/1PGElgT_98WQK-HksxXOpbqc8SN6EPXXTJ-fvigbA0M8/viewform?usp=send_form#start=invite
File:Red-on-blue15th-16thcChristineWard-Wieland.jpg 15th and 16th century examples of gules on azure (red on blue) collected by Christine Leigh Ward-Wieland
Iberian:[edit | edit source]
1506-1509 Livro do Armeiro-Mor (Livre du Grand Armurier) http:www.vikinganswerlady.com/.../1506-1509_Livro_do...
- Blue lions on red fields
Barbato Chefe (97): Gules, a bend argent between two lions azure. Barroso (121): Gules, five lions azure ?banded Or.
- Blue bordures on red fields
Borges Chefe (80): Gules, a lion Or and a bordure azure semy-de-lis Or. Dosem Chefe (85): Gules, a lion Or and a bordure azure semy of escallops argent.
- Blue charges on red fields:
Dantes Chefe (117v): Gules, a cross of lozenges azure. João Álvares Colaço (118): Gules, on a bend azure between two trees vert a lion Or.
File:Iberian AzureGules.jpg |
German/Dutch:[edit | edit source]
Regional Exceptions to the Rule of Tincture, Vol. 01 (German) - [[2]]
Regional Exceptions to the Rule of Tincture, Vol. 02 (more German) - [[3]]
See also Azure and Gules (German, Dutch) for more German & Dutch examples.
File:BSB310 f125r 1540 GulesAzure.JPG | File:Siebmacher plate38-diehudtstocker.jpg | |
Wappenbuch - BSB Cod.icon. 310, [S.l.] Süddeutschland, Ende 15. Jh. - 1540, paly gules and azure | Siebmacher Plate 28, Gules, a conical hat azure trimmed ermine, die Hudtstocker (28). | Siebmacher, 1605. Gules mount issuant (?) from dexter on an azure field with a vert base. Image courtesy of Andreas Lucernensis. |
Universeel Wapenboek, Dutch c. 1558, gyronny fibriated Or? filet cross and saltire Or? | Anton Tyrol Wappenbuch, 1540, f125r, paly gules and azure |
English:[edit | edit source]
The arms of Hendley: File:HendleyAzureGules1619.JPG
BSB | BSB291, |
BSB 291 f44v English 16th Cent. | BSB291, f19r, English 16th C |
Walters MS 847, folio 59, 16th cent English [[4]]
Italian:[edit | edit source]
Eastern Europe:[edit | edit source]
Szczecin (Stettin), Poland: Azure, a griffin's head erased gules, armed and crowned, within a bordure Or. (color-on-color) @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:POL_Szczecin_COA.svg
Telšiai County, Lithuania: Gules, a bear rampant sable collared argent within a bordure azure semy of orthodox crosses Or. @http://www.ldm.lt/VPG/Heraldika_1.htm
Vilniaus County, Lithuania: Gules, an armored knight maintaining a spear argent tipped Or and on a shield azure an orthodox cross Or, sejant upon a horse sable furnished azure, within a bordure azure semy of orthodox crosses Or. @http://www.ldm.lt/VPG/Heraldika_1.htm
Arms of Peter Zawada (1571): Azure, sejant affronty on a black bear passant a woman with arms raised, robed gules, crined and crowned Or.
@http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zawada_(herb_szlachecki)
From Großes Wappenbuch..., [edit | edit source]
enthaltend die Wappen der deutschen Kaiser, der europäischen Königs- und Fürstenhäuser, der Päpste und Kardinäle, Bischöfe und Äbte bis zu den lebenden Repräsentanten zur Zeit der Regentschaft Kaiser Rudolfs II. und Papst Gregors XIII. - Cod.icon. 333 [S.l.] Süddeutschland 1583 @http://codicon.digitale-sammlungen.de/Blatt_bsb00002481,00006.html (collected by Gunnvor silfrahar)
Federicus 2: Azure, on a bend gules between three fleurs-de-lys Or, three {hammers?} argent. @http://codicon.digitale-sammlungen.de/1bsb00002481_00009.jpg
Lifsland (?): Azure, a gryphon segreant Or winged gules. @http://codicon.digitale-sammlungen.de/1bsb00002481_00035.jpg
Cardinal Petrus deya Hisp (?): Per pale, azure two baskets Or in pale within a bordure gules, and argent upon a lozebge azure a tower Or. @http://codicon.digitale-sammlungen.de/1bsb00002481_00045.jpg
Bishop Axencis H: Azure, a Lamb of God argent haloed Or maintaining a gonfannon argent. within a bordure engrailed gules. @http://codicon.digitale-sammlungen.de/1bsb00002481_00049.jpg
Bishop Bary F: Azure, three crosses couped Or within a bordure nebuly gules. @http://codicon.digitale-sammlungen.de/1bsb00002481_00051.jpg
Bishop Camplo F: Azure, a chevron gules between in chief two mullets of six and in base a crescent argent. @http://codicon.digitale-sammlungen.de/1bsb00002481_00052.jpg
Montpensier: Azure, a bend gules and three fleurs-de-lys Or. @http://codicon.digitale-sammlungen.de/1bsb00002481_00025.jpg
Bishop Edisenus F: Azure, in chief within and conjoined to a crescent Or a mullet of six arget, and in base three crosses in fess couped gules. @http://codicon.digitale-sammlungen.de/1bsb00002481_00052.jpg
Bishop Gracia F: Azure, a fleur-de-lus argent between three cinquefoils gules eyed Or. @http://codicon.digitale-sammlungen.de/1bsb00002481_00053.jpg
Bishop Walislam: Gules, an arm issuant from dexter edge and another issuant from sinister edge proper vested argent maintaining a crown Or, within a bordure azure. @http://codicon.digitale-sammlungen.de/1bsb00002481_00071.jpg
Bishop Constantinopolitanus: Azure, a bordure gules and overall upon a bend argent three fishes naiant Or. @http://codicon.digitale-sammlungen.de/1bsb00002481_00071.jpg
Bishop Comien P: Azure, {some angular symbol-looking thing} gules. @http://codicon.digitale-sammlungen.de/1bsb00002481_00072.jpg
Bishop Roidenbury: Gules, a {cotton boll} argent with a stem on a trimount issuant from base Or, within a bordure azure with a trimount issuant from its base Or. @http://codicon.digitale-sammlungen.de/1bsb00002481_00077.jpg
Cardinal Fioromiza: Azure, on a bend gules between two mullets of six Or, three mullets of six argent. @http://codicon.digitale-sammlungen.de/1bsb00002481_00092.jpg
Alençon: Azure six fleurs-de-lys Or three, two and one, and on a bordure gules seven plates. @http://codicon.digitale-sammlungen.de/1bsb00002481_00033.jpg
Cardinal Bisanna: Per fess azure and Or, a cross bottony gules. @http://codicon.digitale-sammlungen.de/1bsb00002481_00093.jpg
Cardinal Florennz: Azure, on a bend gules between two mullets of six Or, three mullets of six argent within a bordure gules. @http://codicon.digitale-sammlungen.de/1bsb00002481_00094.jpg
Cardinal Scelarnigo: Per fess gules and argent a bend azure. @http://codicon.digitale-sammlungen.de/1bsb00002481_00095.jpg
Cardinal Claudius de Bonna Barry: Per bend sinister azure and Or, a bend dancetty Argent and on a chief triangular gules a demi dragon argent. @http://codicon.digitale-sammlungen.de/1bsb00002481_00099.jpg
Cardinal Gabriel Paleottus: Azure, a mountain of six peaks gules and in chief three fleurs-de-lys Or. @http://codicon.digitale-sammlungen.de/1bsb00002481_00100.jpg
Cardinal Scipio Lencelotus: Azure, a label couped gules, between a chief triangular gules charged with a demi dragon Or, and five mullets of six argent. @http://codicon.digitale-sammlungen.de/1bsb00002481_00100.jpg
Sitten sive Wallis: Azure, in chief two mullets of six Or and in base a linden branch fesswise sable leaved gules. @http://codicon.digitale-sammlungen.de/1bsb00002481_00114.jpg
Tull: Azure, a stag's head affrony with a cross between its antlers Or, within a bordure gules. @http://codicon.digitale-sammlungen.de/1bsb00002481_00115.jpg
Friderici II Electoris: {Blazoning quarter 2 only} Azure, a gryphon segreant gules armed and crowned Or. @http://codicon.digitale-sammlungen.de/1bsb00002481_00251.jpg (No Name): Azure, a gryphon segreant gules armed and crowned Or. @http://codicon.digitale-sammlungen.de/1bsb00002481_00285.jpg
Precedents:[edit | edit source]
Precedents of the SCA College of Arms - [[5]] Morsulus Heralds Website - [[6]] (to search the LoARs and Precedents)
From the <month> <year> LoAR: