Libro abierto, hojas de plata, filo de oro, guardas de gules, tapas de sable.

Scott-Giles, C. W.; 1965

Gules shield, three gold crowns, Some Arthurian Coats of Arms

Charles Wilfred Scott-Giles, OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire), Fitzalan Pursuivant Extraordinary, «Some Arthurian Coats of Arms», Coat of Arms, COA, An Heraldic Quarterly Magazine, issue 64 of October 1965 (which is the date I use as reference) and issue 65 of January 1966, The Heraldry Society, Baldock, Hertfordshire, October 1965.

The coat of arms illustrating this bibliographic reference is one of the variants described in this article attributed to King Arthur, which in Blason.es is cataloged as Arthur of Britain.

Bibliographical reference of century XX.

Author: Scott-Giles, C. W..

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Unicornio saltante sobre la divisa, criterio.

Brutus of Britain

Azure, three crowns in bend, bendwise Or.

Escudo de azur, tres coronas en banda, puestas en banda de oro.

Coat of arms interpreted by me as described below: the field is enameled in plain Azure ink; the three crowns are outlined in Sable, illuminated in Or and shaded; and the imaginary shield has a crystalline finish.

Brutus of Britain, also known as Brutus of Troy, is a mythical character to whom, starting from the 9^th century, is attributed the foundation of Britain and even the city of London, which is why this coat of arms is classified as imaginary, because both its holder and, therefore, its coat of arms are imaginary.

The interpretation of this coat of arms was made based on the banner that appears in [Edward IV of England; 1461; row 13, 1^st column].

This coat of arms has served as the basis for the realization of the inescutcheon of the banner with the inescutcheon of Edward IV.

Blazon keywords: Without divisions.

Style keywords: Semi-circular, Illuminated, Shaded, Outlined in sable and Crystalline.

Classification: Interpreted, Imaginary, Coat of arms, Kingdom of England and Criterion.

Imaginary bearer: Brutus of Britain.

Brutus of Britain, banner

Banner Azure, three crowns in bend, bendwise Or.

Pendón de azur, tres coronas en banda, puestas en banda de oro.

Banner interpreted by me as follows: the field is enameled in plain Azure ink; the three crowns are outlined in Sable and illuminated in Or; and on old parchment.

Banner recreated from [Edward IV of England; 1461; row 13, 1^st column].

Blazon keywords: Without divisions.

Style keywords: Rectangular, Illuminated, Outlined in sable and Crystalline.

Classification: Interpreted, Imaginary, Flag, Banner of arms, Kingdom of England and Criterion.

Imaginary bearer: Brutus of Britain.

Inescutcheon with the arms of Brutus of Britain

On an inescutcheon Azure, three crowns in bend, bendwise Or.

Escusón de azur, tres coronas en banda, puestas en banda de oro.

Coat of arms interpreted by me as follows: the field is enameled in plain Azure ink; the three crowns are outlined in Sable, illuminated in Or and shaded; and the imaginary shield has a crystalline finish.

Construction process of the inescutcheon of the banner with the inescutcheon of Edward IV from the coat of arms of Brutus of Britain.

Blazon keywords: Inescutcheon.

Style keywords: Illuminated, Semi-circular, Outlined in sable and Watercolor.

Classification: Schema, Interpreted, Imaginary, Kingdom of England and Criterion.

Imaginary bearer: Brutus of Britain.

In and wise

When to specify «en» and when «puesto en» when writing a blazon? In the following articles I try to explain the criterion I follow, and illustrate it with an example, in many of the possible variants.

In Spanish

In English

Classification: Criterion.

Bearer: In and wise.

In bend and bendwise

Azure, three crowns in bend, bendwise Or.

Escudo de azur, tres coronas en banda, puestas en banda de oro.

Crown with the main axis being the vertical and central axis of symmetry and which is usually placed palewise. This shield is the imaginary coat of arms of Brutus of Britain, an imaginary character, hero of Troy and founder of Britain.

En banda ~ in bend.
Puesto en banda ~ bendwise.

Blazon keywords: Without divisions, Azure, Or, Crown, In bend and Bendwise.

Style keywords: Semi-circular, Outlined in sable and Watercolor.

Classification: Criterion.

Bearer: In and wise.

In bend and palewise

Azure, three crowns in bend, palewise Or.

Escudo de azur, tres coronas en banda, puestas en palo de oro.

Although the crowns are placed palewise, their natural position, since they are also along the bend, then specifying in the blazon that they are placed palewise can avoid the error of placing them rotated.

En banda ~ in bend.
Puesto en palo ~ palewise.

In the coats of arms of the members of The Heraldry Society, as in many other places, cases of «puesto en palo» ~ «palewise» can be seen, for example:

Stephen Richard Shires tiene por armas «Gyronny of eight Gules and Vert on a bend Argent between two pairs of keys saltirewise wards upwards and outwards Or a bend Sable charged with three towers palewise masoned in stretcher blocks Argent and header blocks Sable». The natural position of a tower is «puesta en palo», that is, «palewise», but in this case, being charged on a bend, «...a bend Sable charged with three towers...» there might be doubt if its orientation also follows that of the bend, which is why the clarification «palewise» seems most appropriate to me.
David Boven tiene por armas «Per bend grady Sable and Gules two vines in bend overall a bow palewise all within a bordure Or, for difference».
«palewise» is also used in the crest, as is the case with John Hamilton Gaylor, who bears the arms «Per fess Argent and Gules a dance flory parted per dance Sable and Argent» and for crest «A demi-griffin Sable armed Or holding a key palewise its wards in chief and to the sinister proper».