Stowe, Richard Allen

Vert, a pall raguly Or between three leopards' faces Or.

Interpreted coat of arms: with a pointed shape; illuminated with metal or and color vert; outlined with sable; and a freehand finish.

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Blazon keywords: Vert, One, Pall, Raguly, Or, Three, Head and Leopard.

Style keywords: Illuminated, Watercolor, Pointed and Outlined in sable.

Classification: Coat of arms, Interpreted and Personal.

Bearer: Stowe, Richard Allen.

Vert, a pall raguly Or between three leopards' faces Or. Motto: «Inter feros» in letters Sable within a scroll Argent.

Watercolor finishing.

«Inter feros» means «inside the wild».

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Blazon keywords: Vert, One, Pall, Raguly, Or, Three, Head, Leopard and Motto.

Style keywords: Illuminated, Watercolor, Pointed and Outlined in sable.

Classification: Coat of arms, Interpreted and Personal.

Bearer: Stowe, Richard Allen.

Vert, a pall raguly Or between three leopards' faces Or. Crest: Upon a wreath Or and Vert, on a coronet Or a leopard's face Or between two wings Sable.

Escudo de sinople, una perla ecotada de oro entre tres cabezas de leopardo de oro. Timbrado de un burelete de oro y sinople surmontado de una corona de oro surmontada de una cabeza de leopardo de oro acompañada de dos medios vuelos de sable.

Watercolor finishing.

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Blazon keywords: Vert, One, Pall, Raguly, Or, Three, Head, Leopard, Crest and mantling, Wreath, Above, Crown, Between, Two, Wing and Sable.

Style keywords: Illuminated, Freehand, Pointed and Outlined in sable.

Classification: Coat of arms, Interpreted and Personal.

Bearer: Stowe, Richard Allen.

Vert, a pall raguly Or between three leopards' faces Or. Crest: Upon a wreath Or and Vert, on a coronet Or a leopard's face Or between two wings Sable. Motto: «Inter feros» in letters Sable within a scroll Argent.

Escudo de sinople, una perla ecotada de oro entre tres cabezas de leopardo de oro. Timbrado de un burelete de oro y sinople surmontado de una corona de oro surmontada de una cabeza de leopardo de oro acompañada de dos medios vuelos de sable. Lema: «Inter feros» de sable sobre una filacteria de plata.

Freehand finishing.

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Blazon keywords: Vert, One, Pall, Raguly, Or, Three, Head, Leopard, Crest and mantling, Wreath, Above, Crown, Between, Two, Wing, Sable and Motto.

Style keywords: Illuminated, Freehand, Pointed and Outlined in sable.

Classification: Coat of arms, Interpreted and Personal.

Bearer: Stowe, Richard Allen.

First publication of my interpretation of the arms of Sebastián González Montenegro, on the blog Twelve Lineages of Soria in an article entitled Coats of arms of Mr. Sebastián González Montenegro, works by Mr. Antonio Salmerón Cabañas.

Second publication of my interpretation of the arms of Sebastián González Montenegro, on the blog Twelve Lineages of Soria including his insignias of the Order of Saint Michael of the Wing and of the National Monarchist Brotherhood of Spain.

The first publication is from March 29 and the second publication is later, from May 14.

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In the first quarter of the inescutcheon of this coat of arms there is «a bend Or engouled by two dragon heads of the same, issuing from the corners» following the blazon structure of [Avilés, J.; 1780a; page 84], although it can also be blazoned more briefly as «a bend Or engouled by dragons».

The attribute engouled is used for «bends, crosses, saltires, and all other ordinaries, whose ends are in the mouths of lions, leopards, or dragons» according to [Avilés, J.; 1780a; page 83]. It is a word of French origin meaning to swallow or to engulf, that is, the beasts are devouring the ordinary.

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Categories: Link, Or, One, Bend, Gules, Letter, Sable, Crown, Inescutcheon, Party per pale, Engouled, Head and Dragon.

Root: Twelve Lineages of Soria.

The blazon without a partner is the number zero Gules, row 2 and column 4. Its blazon is the following:

0) «Palado de seis piezas de sinople y oro; brochante sobre el todo una banda de azur».

There are 14 coat of arms equal two by two, thus there are 7 couples with the following blazons, they are numered in color Sable in the previous image:

1) «Paly of six Azure and Or; over all a bend Azure».

2) «Paly of six Azure and Or; over all a bend Vert».

3) «Paly of six Vert and Or».

4) «Paly of six Vert and Or; over all a bend Vert».

5) «Paly of six Azure and Or».

6) «Paly of six Or and Azure; over all a bend Azure».

7) «Paly of six Vert and Or; over all a bend Azure».

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Categories: Riddle solution, Semi-circular, Pointed, Triangular curved, Ogee, Rounded, Outlined in sable, Freehand, Paly, Six, Surmounted, Overall (deprecated), Bend, Azure, Vert and Or.

Root: Gifra, Vittorio.

Sir David Lindsay, «Facsimile of an Ancient Heraldic Manuscript Emblazoned by Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount, Lyon King of Arms, 1542», engraved by W. H. Lizars, published by W. & D. Laing, Edinburgh, 1822.

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Bibliographical reference of century XIX.

Classification: English language and Black and white with color plates.

The author is Lindsay, David.

External resource:

• Archive.org.

Internal resources: LindsayD1822.FacsimileHeraldicManuscript.pdf.

There are identification processes that take years or months, and others in which, almost immediately, the elements fall into place. In this specific case, the identification was surprisingly rapid, largely thanks to the exceptional quality of the photographic material.

When Dr. Germán Corcho Sánchez consulted me about the small coats of arms that appear repeatedly on the image of the Virgin of the Sagrario in the Cathedral of Plasencia, a work from the second half of the thirteenth century, covered with gilded silver, the visual documentation he provided proved decisive. His photographs, of extraordinary sharpness and detail, made it possible to clearly observe shields barely a centimetre and a half wide, punched and retouched with repoussé engraving tools.

Two of the shields raised no doubts for anyone in Plasencia: the castle of Castile and the lion of León. The third had been attributed either to Plasencia or to Segovia, the latter, I understand, because the shield may appear to depict the arches of an aqueduct. And it was this one, the third, about which Dr. Germán Corcho Sánchez was asking me.

My proposal was to interpret it as a vair fur, and in this case, that of the Monroy vair, whose ancestral seat is located in the municipality of Monroy represents.

My reasoning was that the arms of Castile functioned as the common element linking the quartered arms of Castile and León and the quartered arms of Castile and the Monroy vair, hence the sequence visible in the photographs: vair, Castile, León, vair, Castile, León,... as shown in the following visual composition, in which I combine the arms of Castile and León and those of the Monroy lineage with the excellent photographs by Dr. Germán Corcho Sánchez of the Virgin of the Sagrario of Plasencia.

On the other hand, the influence of the Monroy in Plasencia was such that the presence of their coat of arms on the Virgin’s mantle is coherent and perfectly contextualisable within medieval Plasencia. But sometimes I think that the speed with which the pieces fell into place may not be due solely to that, but rather to the fact that, as a child, from a pastureland near the Tagus, the silhouette of the castle of Belvís de Monroy formed a habitual part of my horizon.

I would like to expressly thank Dr. Germán Corcho for his generosity in citing my interpretation on his page dedicated to the Virgin of the Sagrario of Plasencia on his website dedicated to the coat of arms of Plasencia.

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Categories: Identification, Collage, Photographic and Vair ancient.

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