Parts of a Coat of Arms

v      ACHIEVEMENT: The full armorial honors of an armiger, e.g. shield, crest, wreath, mantling, and helm, with supporters as appropriate.

v      ARMIGER: One who is entitled to heraldic arms.

v      ARMORIAL: Of or pertaining to heraldry or heraldic arms.

v      ARMORY: The art or science of the devices borne on the shield and its accompaniments (see heraldry).

v      ARMS: Strictly the devices painted on the shield, it now tends to be used more loosely.

v      COMPARTMENT: The support, often drawn as a grassy mound, on which the supporters stand.

v      CREST: The device which is set upon the helm. It is quite wrong to apply this term to the coat of arms or shield. Around the base of the Crest (originally to conceal the join) is placed a wreath of the colors (the two, sometimes more, principle metals and colors of the arms); sometimes instead of a wreath there a Crest Coronet, and more rarely the Crest is set upon a Cap of Estate.

v      FIELD: The background area of a shield.

v      HERALD: A person who carries or proclaims important news; messenger.

v      HERALDIC: Of or pertaining to heralds or heraldry.

v      HERALDRY: The study or art of tracing genealogies, of determining, designing, and granting coats of arms, and of ruling on questions of rank or protocol.

v      MANTLING: Conventionalized drapery hanging down the back of the Helm, from below the Crest-wreath, and nowadays usually depicted as carried down on either side of the shield.

v      QUARTER:  The quarter part of a shield often used in case when more than one different coat of arm is marshaled on a shield, through descent from heraldic inheritance.

v      SUPPORTERS: The human or other creatures which stand on either side of a shield of arms and support it.

v      WREATH (TORSE): A wreath of twisted cloth of alternate twists of the owner’s “livery colors” on which the Crest stands.  When the Crest is shown by itself, without the coat of Arms, this WREATH is always shown beneath it to indicate that it is a heraldic Crest.

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