Escudo de Castilla y León Libro abierto, hojas de plata, filo de oro, guardas de gules, tapas de sable.

Valero de Bernabé, L.; 2007

Luis Valero de Bernabé y Martín de Eugenio, «Análisis de las características generales de la heráldica gentilicia española y de las singularidades heráldicas existentes entre los diversos territorios históricos hispanos», doctoral dissertation, Faculty of Geography and History, Complutense University of Madrid, thesis supervised by Ana Belén Sánchez Prieto, ISBN 978-84-669-3028-4, Madrid, 2007.

Bibliographical reference of century XXI.

Author: Valero de Bernabé y Martín de Eugenio, Luis.

The following article cites this bibliographic reference:

External resource:

Internal resources: ValeroBernabeL2007.Tesis.30274.pdf.

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Valero de Bernabé, L.; 2009a

Luis Valero de Bernabé, The Castles in Spanish Heraldry

Luis Valero de Bernabé y Martín de Eugenio, «Los Castillos en la Heráldica Española», 2009.

I received this article directly from the author, to whom I am grateful for his kind submission. I consider it a preliminary and preparatory work for the article [Valero de Bernabé, L.; 2009b; pages 32-34] published later.

Bibliographical reference of century XXI.

Author: Valero de Bernabé y Martín de Eugenio, Luis.

Here are the articles quoting this reference:

Internal resources: ValeroBernabeL2009.ElCastilloEnLaHeraldicaEspañola.pdf.

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Valero de Bernabé, L.; 2010

Luis Valero de Bernabé y Martín de Eugenio, «El Lobo, singularidad de la heráldica hispana», Magazine of the Real Asociación de Hidalgos de España, «La Gacetilla de Hidalgos de España», number 524, pages 20, 21 and 22. Madrid, 2010.

Bibliographical reference of century XXI.

The author is Valero de Bernabé y Martín de Eugenio, Luis.

The following articles cite this bibliographic reference:

External resource:

Internal resources: ValeroBernabeL2010.Gacetilla.524.El.Lobo.RevistaHidalgos.Pags20.22.pdf paper in the pages 20, 21 and 22 and ValeroBernabeL2010.524.RevistaCompleta.pdf.

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Bibliographic references by authors

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Index of bibliographical references, mainly of heraldry, arranged alphabetically by authors:

Académie internationale d'héraldique:

Adams, Arthur:

Ailes, Adrian:

  • [Ailes, A.; 1982]: The Origins of the Royal Arms of England: Their Development to 1199.

Aix-en-Provence:

Alfonso X of Castile:

Alonso Gamo, José María:

Anonymous:

Arco y García, Fernando del:

Argote de Molina, Gonzalo:

Armorial Register, The:

  • [Armorial Register, T.; 2025]: International Register of Arms, Volume Four, a Selection of Coats of Arms Conforming to the Laws of Heraldry and Recorded in the Private Register Held by The Armorial Register Limited.
  • [Armorial Register, T.; 2020]: International Register of Arms, Volume Three, a Selection of Coats of Arms Conforming to the Laws of Heraldry and Recorded in the Private Register Held by The Armorial Register Limited.

Armytage, George J.:

  • [Armytage, G. J.; Rylands, J. P.; 1909]: Pedigrees Made at the Visitation of Cheshire, 1613, taken by Richard Saint George, Esq., Norroy King of Arms and Henry Saint George, Gent., Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms; and some other contemporary pedigrees.

Atienza y Navajas, Julio de:

Avilés e Iturbide, José:

  • [Avilés, J.; 1780a]: Ciencia heroyca, reducida a las leyes heráldicas del blasón: Ilustrada con exemplares de todas las piezas, figuras y ornamentos de que puede componerse un escudo de armas interior y exteriormente, Volume I.
  • [Avilés, J.; 1780b]: Ciencia heroyca, reducida a las leyes heráldicas del blasón: Ilustrada con exemplares de todas las piezas, figuras y ornamentos de que puede componerse un escudo de armas interior y exteriormente, Tomo II.
  • [Avilés, J.; 1725a]: Ciencia heroyca, reducida a las leyes heráldicas del blasón: Ilustrada con exemplares de todas las piezas, figuras y ornamentos de que puede componerse un escudo de armas interior y exteriormente, Volume I.
  • [Avilés, J.; 1725b]: Ciencia heroyca, reducida a las leyes heráldicas del blasón: Ilustrada con exemplares de todas las piezas, figuras y ornamentos de que puede componerse un escudo de armas interior y exteriormente, Volume II.

Avilés, Tirso de:

Bakala, Krzysztof:

  • [Bakala, K.; 2010]: Historia symboliczna: znakiem, herbem i barwa pisana : podreczny slownik.

Bascapé, Giacomo Carlo:

Becher, Charlotte:

  • [Becher, C.; Gamber, O.; 1986]: Die Wappenbücher Herzog Albrechts VI. von Österreich: Ingeram-Codex der ehem, Bibliothek Cotta, Volume 1.

Bessero-Lagarde, Anne-Sophie:

Blanchard, Jean-Christophe:

Bosque, Juan del:

Brault, Gerard J.:

Bravo Guarida, Clemente:

  • [Bravo Guarida, C.; 1934]: El Paso Honroso de Don Suero de Quiñones: Célebre Caballero Leonés en el Puente de Órbigo, en 1434.

Burke, Bernard:

  • [Burke, B.; 1989]: The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales; Comprising a Registry of Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time.
  • [Burke, B.; 2009]: The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales; Comprising a Registry of Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time.
  • [Burke, B.; 1842]: The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales; Comprising a Registry of Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time.

Burke, John:

  • [Burke, J.; 1836]: A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland: Enjoying Territorial Possessions or High Official Rank; but Uninvested with Heritable Honours.

Bécquer, Gustavo Adolfo:

Cadenas y Vicent, Vicente de:

Calvo, Pedro:

Catullus, Gaius Valerius:

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de:

Chaparro D'Acosta, Lino:

Clemmensen, Steen:

Col, José Juan del:

Conway, Deanna D. J.:

Costa y Turell, Modesto:

  • [Costa y Turell, M.; 1858]: Tratado completo de la ciencia del blasón, o sea, Código heráldico-histórico; acompañado de una estensa noticia de todas las órdenes de caballería existentes y abolidas.

Cox, Noel:

  • [Cox, N.; 2009]: The principles of international law governing the Sovereign authority for the creation and administration of Orders of Chivalry.

Cramer, René de:

Cátedra de Emblemática Barón de Valdeolivos:

de Pando Villarroya, José Luís Patricio Vicente:

Domínguez García, J.:

Durasov, Vladimir Alexandrovich:

Edward IV of England:

Fearon, Oliver:

Febrer, Jaime:

Fernando II de León:

Fernández de Enciso, Martín:

  • [Fernández de Enciso, M.; 1519]: Sum of Geography, which deals with all the parts and provinces of the world: especially the Indies. And deals extensively with the art of navigation, together with the sphere in the vernacular, with the regulation of the Sun and the North: newly made. With royal privilege..

Fernández-Xesta y Vázquez, Ernesto:

Ferrari, Matteo:

Ferrer i Vives, Francesc d'A:

Finas, Fromageries:

Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles:

Friar, Stephen:

Froger, Michel:

Gaio da Legnago, Antonio del:

Gamber, Ortwin:

  • [Becher, C.; Gamber, O.; 1986]: Die Wappenbücher Herzog Albrechts VI. von Österreich: Ingeram-Codex der ehem, Bibliothek Cotta, Volume 1.

Garaycoa Raffo, Lorenzo:

García Carraffa, Alberto:

García Carraffa, Arturo:

García-Mercadal y García-Loygorri, Fernando:

Garvie, Francisca:

Gauci, Charles A.:

Gentile, Luisa:

Gifra, Vittorio:

Gil, Marc:

Godinho, António:

  • [Godinho, A.; 1521]: Livro da nobreza e da perfeição das armas dos reis cristãos e nobres linhagens dos reinos e senhorios de Portugal.

Goldstraw, Martin S. J.:

González Echegaray, Maria del Carmen.:

Gorino-Causa, Mario:

Gough, Henry:

Gourdon de Genouillac, Henri:

Greaves, Kevin:

Grothues, Bernard:

  • [Grothues, B.; 2019]: Dr. Antonio Salmerón, heraldicus in Spanje. Een kijkje in het atelier van een heraldisch kunstenaar.

Grünenberg, Konrad:

Guimera López, Coriolano:

Hablot, Laurent:

Halkosaari, Heikki:

Herrera Casado, Antonio:

Hiltmann, Torsten:

Huidobro Moya, José Manuel:

Humphery-Smith, Cecil:

Husenbeth, Frederick Charles:

Iguiniz, Juan B.:

  • [Iguiniz, J. B.; 1920]: The National Coat of Arms: A Documented and Illustrated Historical Monograph.

Ingeram, Hans:

Jones, Tanja:

José Cuena Bartolomé:

  • [Cuena Bartolomé, J.; 1968]: The ordered trial of solutions in hydraulic systems by means of mathematical simulation models on an electronic computer.

João do Cró:

Juby, Bernard:

  • [Juby, B.; 2019]: The Splendour of the Modern Heraldic Bookplate Artist.

King, Daniel:

  • [King, D.; 1656]: The Vale-Royal of England or, The County Palatine of Chester Illustrated, wherein is Contained a Geographical and Historical Description of that Famous County, with all its Hundreds and Seats of the Nobility, Gentry and Freeholders.

Kleisner, Tomáš:

  • [Kleisner, T.; 2009]: Amat Victoria Curam: The Device of Archduke Matthias on his Medals.

Labandeira Fernández, Amancio:

Labara Ballestar, Valeriano C.:

Lainé, J. J. L.:

  • [Lainé, P. L.; Lainé, J. J. L.; 1828]: Archives généalogiques et historiques de la noblesse de France, ou, Recueil de preuves, mémoires et notices généralogiques, servant à constater l'origine, la filiation, les alliances et lés illustrations religieuses, civiles et militaires de diverses maisons et familles nobles du royaume; Avec la collection des nobiliaires généraux des provinces de France.

Lainé, P. Louis:

  • [Lainé, P. L.; Lainé, J. J. L.; 1828]: Archives généalogiques et historiques de la noblesse de France, ou, Recueil de preuves, mémoires et notices généralogiques, servant à constater l'origine, la filiation, les alliances et lés illustrations religieuses, civiles et militaires de diverses maisons et familles nobles du royaume; Avec la collection des nobiliaires généraux des provinces de France.

Langton, William:

  • [Langton, W.; 1876]: The Visitation of Lancashire and a part of Cheshire, made in the twenty-fourth year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, A.D. 1533, by special commission of Thomas Benolte (Benalt), Clarencieux.

Le Juge De Segrais, René:

Lindsay, David:

  • [Lindsay, D.; 1822]: Facsimile of an Ancient Heraldic Manuscript Emblazoned by Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount, Lyon King of Arms, 1542.

Liñán y Eguizábal, José de:

Lupescu, Radu:

Lutzelbourg, Nicolas de:

Marchant, Guy:

Marecki, Józef:

Mareckiego, Józefa:

Marshal, Lord:

Martinena Ruiz, Juan José:

Martín Fuertes, José Antonio:

Martínez de Aguirre Aldaz, Javier:

Mayer, Leo Aryeh:

Mayoralgo y Lodo, José Miguel de:

Medél, Ramon:

  • [Medél, R.; 1846]: The Spanish Blazon or Heraldic Science, Coats of Arms of the Different Kingdoms into which Spain has been divided, and of the Noble Families thereof.

Menestrier, Claude-François:

  • [Menestrier, C. F.; 1750]: La Nouvelle Methode Raisonnée du Blason pour l'Aprendre d'une Maniere Aisée: Reduite en Leçons par Demandes, Et par Réponses.
  • [Menestrier, C. F.; 1659]: Le veritable art du blason et la pratique des Armoiries depuis leur Institution.

Menéndez Pidal de Navascués, Faustino:

Merrigan, Michael:

Messía de la Cerda y Pita, Luis:

Mogrobejo Zabala, Endika de:

Mogrovejo de la Cerda, Juan:

  • [Mogrovejo de la Cerda, J.; 1636]: Árbol de los Veras compuesto por Alonso López de Haro, Criado de Su Majestad y Ministro de su Real Consejo de las Órdenes y Cronista de los Reinos de Castilla y León.

Molino, Miguel del:

Moncreiffe, Iain:

Moreno de Vargas, Bernabé:

Márquez de la Plata, Vicenta María:

Neubecker, Ottfried:

Nieto y Cortadellas, Rafael:

Nisbet, Alexander:

  • [Nisbet, A.; 1722]: System of Heraldry Speculative and Practical: With the True Art of Blazon.
  • [Nisbet, A.; 1816]: System of Heraldry Speculative and Practical: With the True Art of Blazon.

Onida, Gian Carlo:

Osmont, Charles:

  • [Osmont, C.; 1858]: L'Art Heraldique Contenant La Maniere d ' Apprendre Facillement Le Blason, Enrichy Des Figures Necessaires Pour L' Intelligence Des Termes.

Paradin, Claude:

Parker, James:

  • [Parker, J.; 2010]: A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, a New Edition with one Thousand Illustrations.
  • [Parker, J.; 1971]: A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, a New Edition with one Thousand Illustrations.
  • [Parker, J.; 1970]: A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, a New Edition with one Thousand Illustrations.
  • [Parker, J.; Gough, H.; 1966]: A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, a New Edition with one Thousand Illustrations.
  • [Parker, J.; 1894]: A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, a New Edition with one Thousand Illustrations.

Parker, James Henry:

  • [Parker, J. H.; 1847]: A Glossary of Terms Used in British heraldry, with a chronological table illustrative of its rise and progress.

Parsons, Robert John:

Pastoureau, Michel:

Pedro IV de Aragón:

  • [Pedro IV de Aragón; 1353]: Ordinance made by the very high and excellent Prince and Lord Lord Don Pedro the third King of Aragon, on the manner in which the Kings of Aragon will be consecrated and they themselves will be crowned.

Pennick, Nigel:

  • [Pennick, N.; 2015]: Pagan Magic of the Northern Tradition: Customs, Rites, and Ceremonies.

Petra Sancta, Silvester:

Piferrer, Francisco:

Pineda, Juan de:

  • [Pineda, Juan d.; 1783]: Libro del Passo Honroso, defendido por el excelente caballero Suero de Quiñones.

Porny, Mark Anthony:

Portolés, Jerónimo:

Pottinger, Don:

Prica, Dimitri:

Pérez de Vargas, Juan:

Rabbow, Arnold:

  • [Rabbow, A.; 1999]: The Origin of the Royal Arms of England - a European Connection.

Raber, Vigil:

Redakcja, Pod:

Riesco de Iturri, Miren Begoña:

Rietstap, Johannes Baptista:

Rio, Martino del:

  • [Rio, M. del; 1608]: Disquisitionum Magicarum Libri Sex: Quibus continetur accurata curiosarum artium et vanarum superstitionum confutatio, utilis Theologis, Jurisconsultis, Medicis, Philologis.

Riquer y Morera, Martin de:

Rodríguez de la Vega, Alonso:

Rodríguez de Lena, Pero:

Roland, Martin:

Rotter, Lucyny:

Rowling, Joanne:

Royal Spanish Academy:

Rumor, Sebastiano:

Rylands, John Paul:

  • [Armytage, G. J.; Rylands, J. P.; 1909]: Pedigrees Made at the Visitation of Cheshire, 1613, taken by Richard Saint George, Esq., Norroy King of Arms and Henry Saint George, Gent., Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms; and some other contemporary pedigrees.
  • [Rylands, J. P.; 1882]: The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580, Made by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, for William Flower, Norroy King of Arms, with Numerous Additions and Continuations, Including those from The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1566, by the same Herald, with an Appendix Containing The Visitation of a Part of Cheshire in the Year 1533, William Fellows, Lancaster Herald, for Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux King Of Arms, And a Fragment of The Visitation of the City of Chester in the Year 1591, Made by Thomas Chaloner, Deputy to the Office Of Arms.

Salazar y Mendoza, Miguel de:

Salmerón Cabañas, Antonio:

Sanz Lacorte, Jesús:

Sarandeses Pérez, Francisco:

Savorelli, Alessandro:

Scott-Giles, C. W.:

Selvester, Guy W.:

Serra i Rosell, Pedro:

  • [Serra i Rosell, P.; 2016]: Transmission of armorial bearings in the Kingdom of Castile in the 13th century. The arms of Don Enrique de Castilla, son of Fernando III the Saint..

Sevilla Gómez, Antonio:

Shakespeare, William:

Stalins, Gaston:

Stock, Elliot:

  • [Stock, E.; 1895]: The Antiquary, A Magazine Devoted to the Study of the Past.

Stodart, Robert Riddle:

Ströhl, Hugo Gerard:

Stych, F. S.:

Sánchez Albornoz, C.:

Tejero de Rojas y Sandoval, Juan Francisco:

The Heraldry Society:

Toral y Fernández de Peñaranda, Enrique:

Torres, Avelino V.:

Tosta, María Luisa:

Uhagón y Guardamino, Francisco Rafael:

Valero de Bernabé y Martín de Eugenio, Luis:

Valverde Ogallar, Pedro Blas:

Various authors:

  • [GDLC; 1998]: Gran diccionari de la llengua catalana.

Vega, Pedro José de:

  • [Vega, P. J. de; 1702]: Compendio de la Maior Parte Ð los Blassones, Armas, e Ynsignias Ð las Ylustres Casas, Familias, y Apellidos del Reyno Ð Navarra i Parte Ð la Provincia de Gvipvzcoa, Segvn las Vsan y Traen los Svccesores Ðellas.

Vera-Ortiz, Jorge A.:

  • [Vera-Ortiz, J.A.; 2009]: Linaje emeritense de don Juan Antonio de Vera y Zúñiga, un pícaro conde genealogista y una creencia muy arraigada.

Vicente Cascante, Ignacio:

Vivar del Riego, José Antonio:

Wade, William Cecil:

  • [Wade, W. C.; 1898]: The symbolisms of heraldry or A treatise on the meanings and derivations of armorial bearings.

Wijnbergen, Anonymous:

Williams, Nicholas:

Winkler, Pavel Pavlovich von:

  • [Winkler, P. P. von; 1892]: Russian Heraldry: History and Description of Russian Coats of Arms with Illustrations of All the Coats of Arms of the Nobility, included in the General Armorial of the Russian Empire.

Zajic, Andreas H.:

Zamora Vicente, Alonso:

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Medél, R.; 1846

Ramon Medél, «The Spanish Blazon or Heraldic Science, Coats of Arms of the Different Kingdoms into which Spain has been divided, and of the Noble Families thereof», work adorned with 40 lithographed plates, printer J. Guerrero, Conde del Asalto Street 73, Barcelona, 1846.

The author's name «Ramon Medél» is written as the author himself writes it and not «Ramón Medel» as it is written in other bibliographies.

  • The book first deals with the use of armories and the origin of the blazon, the shape of the coat of arms, the metals, colors, and linings, the partitions of the field and the honorable charges.
  • Ramon Medél continues writing about the figures and other heraldic terms, organizing them as a dictionary almost until the end of the book, interspersing within this dictionary chapters dedicated to specific topics. For example, within the letter «C», he intersperses chapters on crowns, the crest, the mantling, the collars of orders, the «vanderas», the supporters and the supporters, the motto, the «pavilion», all the above including examples of specific blazons, the arms of Spain, covering all these topics within the letter «C» from page 84, after the term «cordado», to page 167, which begins with the term «corriendo», this makes it a bit difficult to use this book as a dictionary, unless the reader uses bookmarks. Likewise, within the letter «O», he includes a long chapter dedicated to the military orders and the crosses of distinction.
  • After finishing the previous dictionary, in the final part of the book's text, he deals with the rules and the particular «exceptions» of blazon, the differences in armories, and the order in blazoning the coats of arms.
  • From page 281, until the end of the book, it includes lithographs in both black and white and color, starting with a small royal coat of arms of Spain, ending with the coat of arms of Guillermo Ignacio Cifré de Colonia, and going through theoretical explanatory illustrations of partitions, charges, etc., civil coats of arms, family coats of arms, and even imaginary coats of arms such as the arms of El Cid Campeador or those of the Suevi kings.

Bibliographical reference of century XIX.

Author: Medél, Ramon.

Here are the articles quoting this reference:

Internal resources: MedelR1846.BlasonEspañolCienciaHeraldica.pdf.

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Heraldic art on the web, March 2015

Heraldic art in Google Chrome, fixed design

This website Blason.es is formed by web pages consisting mainly of Html (HyperText Markup Language) code, with Css (Cascade style sheet) for styling and with some Javascript programming.

The textual content of these web pages is complemented with images fundamentally in JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) format and, also, in PNG (Portable Network Graphic) format, with documents in PDF (Portable Document Format) format and with some videos in MP4 format.

Around March 2015, the structure of these web pages was a fixed format, although they were normally viewed in multiple browsers, including mobile devices.

The image illustrating this article shows the appearance of this site on that date as viewed by the Google Chrome browser.

Category: Technology.

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Heraldic art in FireFox, Chrome, IE and Safari

Heraldic art in Internet Explorer, fixed design

The development of this Blason.es website is mainly tested in Mozilla FireFox and Google Chrome and, also, in Microsoft Internet Explorer and Apple Safari.

But while it is sought that the visualization of the design in the first 2 is as it was conceived, in the latter 2, it is only required to be acceptably correct.

Therefore, the pages are not overloaded with additional code to achieve optimal visualization neither in Microsoft Internet Explorer nor Apple Safari.

For example, the image illustrating this article shows the appearance of this site, around March 2015, in the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser, where the rounded corners of the white content background do not appear, which are visible in Mozilla FireFox and Google Chrome.

It's not that they cannot be displayed, it's that the development overhead is relinquished to achieve total adequacy, as the effort is mainly dedicated to the content of the site, which is heraldic art.

Category: Technology.

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Automation of the diffusion of heraldic content

Heraldic art in FireFox, fixed design

2015

The creation of this website is carried out by a builder program developed specifically for Blason.es.

The content that this builder program uses as raw material consists of articles grouped, by armorial owners or by themes, within objects called agendas.

Each agenda can have from 1 or 2 articles up to dozens of them.

An article is often associated with a specific version of a coat of arms, with a bibliographic reference, with a criterion, etc.

Each of the articles stored in the agendas can belong to a wide set of categories.

Of the more than 550 possible categories, approximately 85% can be associated with heraldic and artistic terms or categories.

The articles can also belong to 5 levels that are named, according to the first letters of the alphabet: (A)nnulled, (B)ilingual, (C)astilian and common, (D)istinguished, (E)shelfed, and (F)rontal.

The dozens of agendas containing the Blason.es articles are organized, in turn, in a large tree structure where each node maintains an agenda, the coats of arms, flags, standards, seals, exlibris, etc. described in the articles of that agenda or of other related agendas, the construction method of these coats of arms along with auxiliary notes, hand-drawn tracings of assemblies or components, the diagrams, their pixel images and their representation in vector graphics, their support documentation, their catalogs of heraldic pieces, etc. This tree structure supports and organizes several Gigabytes of heraldic content (about 125 Gb and increasing).

This tree structure was not created to be exploited by the Blason.es builder program, but precedes the existence of this program.

It is, precisely, the same tree structure that supports the development of my heraldic art which, simultaneously, is used by the Blason.es builder program to extract from it the textual, graphic, etc. content that illustrates this website.

Technically, the Blason.es builder program could be classified within the area of metaprogramming and includes, additionally, certain features that try to move it away from determinism, with the objective that the same input information does not always generate identical web content output.

2025

Since the previous paragraphs were written, the fundamentals have not changed, but there has been an evolution.

The raw material feeding my Blason.es website is a 165 GB repository made up of 87,234 files, fundamentally images (raster and vector) created by me, organized in 5,063 cloud directories.

With the best material from that repository, a bilingual documentation base of posts is maintained, which is independent of the posts' final destination, and which currently contains 3,155 posts (titles, set of possible images, bilingual texts in English and Spanish, although also some French, Italian, and other languages, keywords, and control of the sites where they have been published). This documentation base is the source for publishing on the following channels, social networks, and groups within them: Facebook, Minds, Instagram, Telegram, WhatsApp, BlueSky, Twitter, Pixiv, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Reddit, Discord, and Patreon and, of course, for the Blason.es website. This allows maintaining a publication volume of 3,224 posts per year (average of the last 5 years).

Specifically, publication on Blason.es is carried out in 2 phases:

  • First, thanks to a process programmed in Python which, based on a publication selector, extracts the posts to be published from the document bank with the most suitable images and generates an XML-like structure with said content, including both HTML code and TOL code (a programming language designed by me). That is, it generates a structure like the one described in the previous section, and structure, which was initially edited manually.
  • Subsequently, a process programmed in TOL, similar to the one described in the previous section, reads all the XML structure necessary to update Blason.es every night on a server with the Fedora operating system, an operation that is transmitted to the internet early in the morning.

Through the above, Blason.es currently consists of 5,616 HTML pages, 5,282 files in JPEG format, 669 files in PNG format, in addition to MP4 and PDF files.

The pages of Blason.es are organized through a heraldic ontology consisting of 934 keywords in heraldic Castilian and 913 in English heraldic terminology, establishing a network of internal and external hyperlinks that reaches 1,436,823.

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