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Ordinary (heraldry)

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In heraldry, an ordinary (or honourable ordinary) is a simple geometrical figure, bounded by straight lines and running from side to side or top to bottom of the shield. [1]

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Annulet (heraldry)

In heraldry, an annulet (i.e. "little ring") is a common charge.

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Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Arthur Charles Fox-Davies (28 February 1871 – 19 May 1928) was a British expert on heraldry.

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Baden

Baden is a historical German territory.

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Bar (heraldry)

In heraldry, a bar is an ordinary consisting of a horizontal band across the shield.

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Bend (heraldry)

In heraldry, a bend is a band or strap running from the upper dexter (the bearer's right side and the viewer's left) corner of the shield to the lower sinister (the bearer's left side, and the viewer's right).

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Blake

Blake is a surname or a given name which originated from Old English.

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Bordure

In heraldry, a bordure is a band of contrasting tincture forming a border around the edge of a shield, traditionally one-sixth as wide as the shield itself.

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Cadency

In heraldry, cadency is any systematic way of distinguishing otherwise identical coats of arms belonging to members of the same family.

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Canadian pale

In vexillology, a Canadian pale is a centre band of a vertical triband flag (a pale in heraldry) that covers half the length of a flag, rather than a third as in most triband designs.

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Canton (heraldry)

In heraldry, a canton is a charge placed upon a shield.

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Cardinal Richelieu

Cardinal Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu and Fronsac (9 September 15854 December 1642), commonly referred to as Cardinal Richelieu (Cardinal de Richelieu), was a French clergyman, nobleman, and statesman.

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Charge (heraldry)

In heraldry, a charge is any emblem or device occupying the field of an escutcheon (shield).

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Chevron (insignia)

A chevron (also spelled cheveron, especially in older documents) is a V-shaped mark, often inverted.

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Chief (heraldry)

In heraldic blazon, a chief is a charge on a coat of arms that takes the form of a band running horizontally across the top edge of the shield.

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City of London

The City of London is a city and county that contains the historic centre and the primary central business district (CBD) of London.

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Clan Cunningham

Clan Cunningham is a Scottish clan.

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Coat of arms of Austria

The current coat of arms of Austria has been in use, in various forms, by the Republic of Austria since 1919.

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Coat of arms of Baden

The coat of arms of Baden comes from the personal arms of the Margraves and Grand Dukes of Baden, the traditional rulers of the region.

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Coat of arms of Spain

The coat of arms of Spain represents Spain and the Spanish nation.

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Crosses in heraldry

The cross is a basic design of two intersecting lines (X) used from pre-historic times.

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Danish royal family

The Danish royal family consists of the dynastic family of the monarch.

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Diamonds (suit)

Diamonds or (four-colour deck) is one of the four suits of playing cards in the standard French deck.

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Duchy of Cornwall

The Duchy of Cornwall (Duketh Kernow) is one of two royal duchies in England, the other being the Duchy of Lancaster.

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Duke of Atholl

Duke of Atholl, alternatively Duke of Athole, named after Atholl in Scotland, is a title in the Peerage of Scotland held by the head of Clan Murray.

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Escutcheon (heraldry)

In heraldry, an escutcheon is a shield that forms the main or focal element in an achievement of arms.

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Fess

In heraldry, a fess or fesse (from Middle English fesse, from Old French, from Latin fascia, "band") is a charge on a coat of arms that takes the form of a band running horizontally across the centre of the shield.

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Flag of Canada

The flag of Canada, often referred to as the Canadian flag, or unofficially as the Maple Leaf and l'Unifolié (French for "the one-leafed"), is a national flag consisting of a red field with a white square at its centre in the ratio of 1:2:1, in the middle of which is featured a stylized, red, 11-pointed maple leaf charged in the centre.

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Flag of Scotland

The Flag of Scotland (bratach na h-Alba; Banner o Scotland) is also known as St Andrew's Cross or the Saltire.

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Flaunch

In heraldry, a flaunch (also called flanches or flanks) are among the ordinaries or subordinaries, consisting of two arcs of circles protruding into the field from the sides of the shield.

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Friesland

Friesland (official, Fryslân), also historically known as Frisia, is a province of the Netherlands located in the northern part of the country.

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Gable

A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches.

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Gore (heraldry)

In heraldry a gore is a charge formed by two inwardly curved lines starting from the dexter chief (for the view, the upper left) corner and the middle base point and meeting in the fess point (lower center).

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Gyron

A gyron is a triangular heraldic ordinary having an angle at the fess point and the opposite side at the edge of the escutcheon.

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Heraldry

Heraldry is a broad term, encompassing the design, display, and study of armorial bearings (known as armory), as well as related disciplines, such as vexillology, together with the study of ceremony, rank, and pedigree.

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House of Bourbon

The House of Bourbon is a European royal house of French origin, a branch of the Capetian dynasty.

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House of Medici

The House of Medici was an Italian banking family and political dynasty that first began to gather prominence under Cosimo de' Medici in the Republic of Florence during the first half of the 15th century.

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House of Oldenburg

The House of Oldenburg is a European dynasty of North German origin.

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House of Rohan

The House of Rohan (Roc'han) is a Breton family of viscounts, later dukes and princes in the French nobility, coming from the locality of Rohan in Brittany.

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Jean IV de Rieux

Jean IV de Rieux (June 27, 1447 – February 9, 1518), was a Breton noble and Marshal.

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Lausanne District

Lausanne District (District de Lausanne) is a district in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland.

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Line (heraldry)

The lines of partition used to divide and vary fields and charges in heraldry are by default straight, but may have many different shapes.

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Lozenge (heraldry)

The lozenge in heraldry is a diamond-shaped charge (an object that can be placed on the field of the shield), usually somewhat narrower than it is tall.

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Mâcon

Mâcon, historically anglicized as Mascon, is a small city in east-central France.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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Orle (heraldry)

In heraldry, an orle is a subordinary consisting of a narrow band occupying the inward half of where a bordure would be, following the exact outline of the shield but within it, showing the field between the outer edge of the orle and the edge of the shield.

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Pale (heraldry)

A pale is a term used in heraldic blazon and vexillology to describe a charge on a coat of arms (or flag), that takes the form of a band running vertically down the centre of the shield.

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Pall (heraldry)

A pall (or pairle) is a Y-shaped heraldic charge, normally having its arms in the three corners of the shield.

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Pile (heraldry)

In heraldry, a pile is a charge usually counted as one of the ordinaries (figures bounded by straight lines and occupying a definite portion of the shield).

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Roundel (heraldry)

A roundel is a circular charge in heraldry.

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Royal Arms of Scotland

The royal arms of Scotland is the official coat of arms of the King of Scots first adopted in the 12th century.

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Saltire

A saltire, also called Saint Andrew's Cross, is a heraldic symbol in the form of a diagonal cross, like the shape of the letter X in Roman type.

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The Art of Heraldry: An Encyclopædia of Armory

The Art of Heraldry: An Encyclopædia of Armory is a book on heraldry and armory by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, originally published in 1904.

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Tincture (heraldry)

Tinctures constitute the limited palette of colours and patterns used in heraldry.

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Trans, Switzerland

Trans is a village in the municipality of Tomils in the district of Hinterrhein in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.

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Variations of ordinaries

Ordinaries in heraldry are sometimes embellished with stripes of colour alongside them, have lumps added to them, shown with their edges arciform instead of straight, have their peaks and tops chopped off, pushed up and down out of the usual positions, or even broken apart.

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Redirects here:

Fret (heraldry), Honourable ordinary, Sub-ordinary, Subordinaries.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinary_(heraldry)

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