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Illustrations

Period source/s:

File:BSB291 f43r Gonson.jpg
Insignia Anglica, BSB 291, 1500s, three charges on a chief with different charge in middle.
BSB279_f109r_redbluenebulytierce.jpg
BSB 279 Insignia Neapolitanorum, 1550-55, Chief of allegiance. Red on blue. Nebuly tierce?

Modern Sources:

Pictorial Dictionary of SCA Heraldry (3rd edition):

Pennsic Traceable Art Project


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

Period Armorials


Precedents:

Precedents of the SCA College of Arms - [[1]]

Morsulus Heralds Website - [[2]] (to search the LoARs and Precedents)

Restatement Wiki - [[3]] (restatements of Precedents)

Use the above links to be sure any precedents listed below haven't been superseded by newer precedents.

Definition:

Registerability (Restricted, Reserved, SFPP, OOP):

From the January 2008 LoAR:

"The most common depiction of a chief and a bordure has the chief overlying the bordure; however, precedent indicates that there are some examples of bordures overlying chiefs (v. Ambrosius MacDaibhidh, December 1995). Prior precedent states:

  • Please note that the design of counterchanging a bordure over a pile is considered "a weirdness" in the SCA - a single step from period practice (per the LoAR of July 2001). One such step in armory is acceptable, but more than one such step is considered too far from period practice and reason for return. [Clef of Cividale, 03/03, R-Calontir]

Similarly, barring period evidence of such counterchanging, counterchanging a bordure over a chief is also a step from period practice." [January 2008 LoAR]


Conflict:

Collected Precedents:


In the Ordinary