Dog

Gules, a fess between in chief two mullets of eight points Argent flanking a Maltese cross, and in base three bendlets Or. Crest: Upon a helm issuant from a crown of Noble above the shield with a wreath Argent and Gules, a Cirneco dell’Etna hound passant proper, gorged of a collar of meanders motifs Azure and Argent. Mantling: Gules doubled Argent.

Coat of arms painted by me, highlighted with lights and shadows, outlined in Sable, with a pointed external shape and with a watercolor finishing.

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Blazon keywords: Gules, Argent, Or, Azure, One, Two, Three, Fess, Between, In chief, Eight-pointed cross, Cross couped, Mullet, In base, Bendlet, Crest, Upon (wreath), Helm, Issuant, Crown of Noble, Crown, Above the shield, Wreath, Dog, Gorged and Mantling.

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

Classification: Personal, Interpreted, Boa and Coat of arms.

Bearer: Bella, Giovanni de.

Quarterly: 1 Argent, an oak eradicated Vert, fructed Or; 2 Azure, a tower with a turret Or, port and windows Azure, masoned Sable; 3 Azure, a hound passant Argent, spotted Sable; 4 Argent, a cross Gules. Crest: Upon a helm with a wreath Argent and Azure, five ostrich feathers alternately Azure and Argent. Mantling: Azure doubled Argent. Motto: «Ut Ferrum Fortes» Sable, with initial letters Gules, over a scroll Argent.

Coat of arms devised by me, illuminated with lights and shadows, contoured in Sable, with an ogee external shape and with a leather finishing.

Design rationale

The oak tree laden with acorns Or in the first quarter symbolizes the family's fertility. The oak and the domed tower in the second quarter, in their transformed forms, are elements from the coat of arms of the Simon lineage, which they represent. The third quarter derives from the arms of the Faus family and represents it. The plain cross in the fourth quarter is a symbol of Christ and of Aragon. The Latin motto reads: «Strong as Iron».

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Blazon keywords: Argent, Vert, Or, Azure, Sable, Gules, One, Five, Quarterly, Oak, Tree, Eradicated, Fructed, With a turret, Port and windows, Masoned, Dog, Passant, Spotted, Cross, Crest and mantling, Crest, Upon (wreath), Helm, Wreath, Ostrich feathers, Alternately, Mantling and Motto.

Style keywords: Outlined in sable, Illuminated, Ogee and Leather.

Classification: Personal, Created, Design rationale, Boa and Coat of arms.

Bearer: Simon-Faus, family.

Quarterly: 1 Argent, an oak eradicated Vert, fructed Or; 2 Azure, a tower with a turret Or, port and windows Azure, masoned Sable; 3 Azure, a hound passant Argent, spotted Sable; 4 Argent, a cross Gules. Crest: Upon a helm with a wreath Argent and Azure, five ostrich feathers alternately Azure and Argent. Mantling: Azure doubled Argent. Motto: «Ut Ferrum Fortes» Sable, with initial letters Gules, over a scroll Argent.

Coat of arms of the family Simon-Faus. The image combines a photograph of their arms crafted in metalwork by a specialist with my original painting that served as the model for it.

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Blazon keywords: Argent, Vert, Or, Azure, Sable, Gules, One, Five, Quarterly, Oak, Tree, Eradicated, Fructed, With a turret, Port and windows, Masoned, Dog, Passant, Spotted, Cross, Crest and mantling, Crest, Upon (wreath), Helm, Wreath, Ostrich feathers, Alternately, Mantling and Motto.

Style keywords: Outlined in sable, Illuminated, Ogee and Metal beaten.

Classification: Personal, Created, Boa, Carved wood, Collage and Photographic.

Bearer: Simon-Faus, family.

Gules, a fess between in chief two mullets of eight points Argent flanking a Maltese cross, and in base three bendlets Or. Crest: Upon a helm issuant from a crown of Noble above the shield with a wreath Argent and Gules, a Cirneco dell’Etna hound passant proper, gorged of a collar of meanders motifs Azure and Argent. Mantling: Gules doubled Argent.

G0053: the coat of arms of Giovanni de Bella as granted by the Chief Herald of Arms of Malta and emblazoned by me for this grant. This photograph shows my hand-drawn Cirneco dell’Etna hound passant, gorged with a collar of meander motifs, alongside the coat of arms in which it appears as the crest. The drawing was executed directly in ink on tracing paper using a fine technical pen, without any preliminary pencil sketch. Two sheets of tracing paper can be seen in the image: an initial version used to establish the proportions and posture of the hound, and a second version in which the design was corrected and refined before its subsequent digital finishing, visible in the final rendering of the complete achievement.

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Blazon keywords: Gules, Argent, Or, Azure, One, Two, Three, Fess, Between, In chief, Eight-pointed cross, Cross couped, Mullet, In base, Bendlet, Crest, Upon (wreath), Helm, Issuant, Crown of Noble, Crown, Above the shield, Wreath, Dog, Gorged and Mantling.

Style keywords: Outlined in sable, Illuminated and Pointed.

Classification: Personal, Interpreted, Boa, Hand-drawn, Collage and Photographic.

Bearer: Bella, Giovanni de.

Sable, a sun in splendour Or in the dexter chief, and a dexter hand couped at the wrist proper pointing thereto in the sinister base, and per chevron Argent three brach hound's heads couped Azure, 1 and 2. Motto: «Di Droimíní e Delle Alpi» Sable, with initial letters Gules, over a scroll Argent.

Escudo de sable, mantelado en punta de plata, en la diestra del jefe un sol de oro, apuntado desde la siniestra por una mano diestra puesta en banda de carnación, en la punta tres cabezas de perro braco de azur, 1 y 2. Lema: «Di Droimíní e Delle Alpi» de sable, con letras iniciales de gules, sobre una filacteria de plata.

Coat of arms designed by me, highlighted with lights and shadows, outlined in Sable, with an ogee triple-pointed external shape and with a leather finishing.

The arms of John Brady from Ireland, designed and emblazoned by me. To write here his blazon I follow an Irish style.

Design rationale

These arms were created for the descendants of Christopher Joseph Parnell Brady and Estella Amelia Arigho. The design is rooted in the traditional Brady Arms, including those recorded by the Ulster King of Arms in Dublin, while the hound’s head draws inspiration from the Arms of Caneggio, the Swiss municipality where the Arigho family originates, represented as Azure with a brach hound’s head couped Argent, but with the tinctures exchanged, painting Azure where it was Argent and vice versa. The number three holds dual significance. On the Brady side, it represents three generations tracing back to the Drumlins of County Cavan, those characteristic rounded hills of the Irish landscape. On the Arigho side, it symbolizes three generations leading to the Alps, represented by the chevron Argent over a Sable field, evoking the snow-capped peaks of the mountains, a nod to the family's Swiss heritage.

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Blazon keywords: Sable, Or, Argent, Azure, Gules, One, Three, Party per chevron, Dexter, Chief, Sun in splendour, Sinister, Hand, Couped, Wrist, Bendwise, Proper, In base, Brach hound, Dog, Head, Disordered and Motto.

Style keywords: Outlined in sable, Illuminated, Ogee Triple-Pointed and Leather.

Classification: Personal, Created, Design rationale, Boa and Coat of arms.

Bearer: Brady, John.

Registered by The International Register of Arms, 11th of May of 2022, Registration number 0627, Volume 4.

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Categories: Armorial roll, Sun in splendour, Dexter, Chief, Hand, Party per fess, Wrist, Proper, Sinister, Base (lower 1/3), Party per chevron, Brach hound, Dog and Head.

External resource:

• John Brady at The Armorial Register.

Root: The Armorial Register.

Gules: a warren hound parado statant Or; a base hearty Or. Motto: «Latidos Podencos» Or.

Escudo de gules: un podenco parado de oro; la campaña encajada de corazones de oro. Divisa: «Latidos Podencos» de oro.

Coat of arms that I have designed for the shelter Latidos Podencos as follows: the outline of the shield is pointed and rounded; its field is painted in flat tincture Gules; the motto, its warren hound, and its base of interlocking hearts are delineated Sable and illuminated with the metal Or; and the whole shield has a softly hammered metallic finish.

Heraldic objects

A coat of arms in Or and Gules has been created, with and without motto, together with a seal, a decorative bordure featuring ten hounds and twelve hearts to frame documents, and also a variant of the shield in Argent and Azure for complementary uses.

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Blazon keywords: Without divisions, Gules, Or, Warren hound, Dog, Base, Base (lower 1/3), Dancetty, Heart and Motto (identification).

Style keywords: Ogee, Illuminated, Outlined in sable and Soft metal.

Classification: Created, Socioeconomic and Coat of arms.

Bearer: Latidos Podencos.

Protectora del podenco español.

I have created the seal of the shelter Latidos Podencos based on its coat of arms.

[Avilés, J.; 1780a; page 79, third paragraph from the beginning] writes that «Encaxadas, or emananchadas», from the French «émanche», and in English sometimes rendered as «emanche» and other times described as «line of», refers to «those partitions of the shield whose pieces fit one into another in the form of thick and elongated triangles, which are usually one-third of the length or width of the shield, depending on the direction in which these figures are placed in a per pale, per fess, per bend, or per bend sinister division, etc. But when it is a chief, they have half the base and the rest pointed; and if it is a fess, it is formed by alternating triangles filling it entirely». This description corresponds to the most general form of the «encajado», although there may be other ways to position it —in this case, in the base— and other types of «encajado» depending on the figures represented, such as those made of fir trees, Latin crosses, or, as in this case, of hearts.

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Blazon keywords: Without divisions, Dog, Base, Dancetty, Heart and Motto (identification).

Classification: Seal, Created and Socioeconomic.

Bearer: Latidos Podencos.

Sable, a sun in splendour Or in the dexter chief, and a dexter hand couped at the wrist proper pointing thereto in the sinister base, and per chevron Argent three brach hound's heads couped Azure, 1 and 2. Motto: «Di Droimíní e Delle Alpi» Sable, with initial letters Gules, over a scroll Argent.

Heraldic device designed by me, highlighted with lights and shadows, contoured in Sable, with an ogee triple-pointed outer contour and with a sealed finishing.

The arms of John Brady from Ireland, designed, emblazoned, and sealed by me. To write here his blazon I follow an Irish style.

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Blazon keywords: Sable, Or, Argent, Azure, One, Three, Party per chevron, Dexter, Chief, Sun in splendour, Sinister, Hand, Couped, Wrist, Bendwise, Proper, In base, Brach hound, Dog, Head, Disordered and Motto.

Style keywords: Outlined in sable, Illuminated, Ogee Triple-Pointed and Sealed.

Classification: Personal, Created, Boa, Sealed arms and Heraldic document.

Bearer: Brady, John.