Pearly finish

Separador heráldico
Escudo de Castilla y León

Artillery Combat School of the Swedish Army

Gules, a grenade Or.

Kingdom of Sweden.

Gules, a grenade Or.

Escudo de gules, una bomba de oro.

Illuminated with lights and shadows and with a iridescent and metallic finish.


Blazon keywords: Without divisions, Gules, One, Grenade and Or.

Style keywords: Metal beaten, Iridescent (nacar), Outlined in sable, Illuminated and Pointed.

Classification: Interpreted, Military and Kingdom of Sweden.

Bearer: Artillery Combat School of the Swedish Army.

Separador heráldico
Escudo de Castilla y León

Hector of Troy, Sable

Sable, two lions combatant Or.

Thus they celebrated the funeral rites of Hector, tamer of horses. Homer, Iliad.

Sable, two lions combatant Or.

Escudo de sable, dos leones rampantes, afrontados de oro.

Imaginary coat of arms interpreted as follows: the mouth is a semicircular arch; the field enameled in flat Sable color; its 2 figures are outlined with the field tincture and illuminated in Or metal; and the set has a pearly finish.

Coat of arms interpreted from the imaginary blazon described in «Sir David Lindsay's Armorial», from the year 1542, where its blazon code «DL011» corresponds to Hector of Troy and which describes it as follows: «Sable, two lions combatant Or». Note the difference from the one described by [Avilés, J.; 1725a; page 7] which states that its field is Gules, «of red».

Says [Parsons, R. J.; 1989; paragraph 30], in one of the most beautiful descriptions of the lion that I have read, that the heraldic lion, as is the case with many other beasts, is very different from the lion in Nature. The lion in heraldry is the abstract expression of attributes such as nobility, strength, power, ferocity, courage, and vital energy. For example:

  • vitality must be reflected in the line that flows downward through the animal's spine and to its hindquarters,
  • power must be represented by its enormous shoulders and its strong forelegs,
  • ferocity is symbolized by its unsheathed claws and its open jaws, and
  • its tail, emerging from its entrails, and its mane must contribute to reinforce the expression of all these attributes.

Given this description of the heraldic lion, gifted to us by Robert John Parsons, every heraldic artist with critical capacity cannot help but ask themselves whether their lions are capable of expressing this range of attributes.


Blazon keywords: Without divisions, Sable, Lion, Or and Combatant.

Style keywords: Semi-circular, Illuminated, Outlined in the field tincture and Iridescent (nacar).

Classification: Interpreted, Imaginary, Coat of arms and Greco-Roman antiquity.

Imaginary bearer: Hector of Troy.

Separador heráldico
Escudo de Castilla y León

John Berry

Or, three fesses Gules.

Sir John Berry, Admiral of the Royal Navy

Or, three fesses Gules.

Escudo de oro, tres fajas de gules.

Coat of arms interpreted as follows: the top of the shield is pointed; its field has been painted in flat Or; its fesses have been outlined in Sable and illuminated in Gules; and the whole set has a pearly finish.

The arms of John Berry, and therefore those of Berry of Molland, are equivalent to those of Pope Clement V and to the Castilian arms of Diego Fernández de Córdoba y Carrillo.


Blazon keywords: Without divisions, Or, Fess and Gules.

Style keywords: Pointed, Illuminated, Outlined in sable and Iridescent (nacar).

Classification: Interpreted, Personal and Army and Navy.

Bearer: Berry, John.

Separador heráldico
Escudo de Castilla y León

Laird Sky

Party per chevron Vert and Or, in chief a sackbut fesswise Or, in base a thistle slipped and leaved proper. Crest: Upon a helm, with a wreath Or and Vert, a bluethroat (Luscinia svecica) proper. Mantling: Vert doubled Or. Motto above the crest: «Less Is More».

Party per chevron Vert and Or, in chief a sackbut fesswise Or, in base a thistle slipped and leaved proper. Crest: Upon a helm, with a wreath Or and Vert, a bluethroat (Luscinia svecica) proper. Mantling: Vert doubled Or. Motto above the crest: «Less Is More».

Illuminated, an irisdiscent finishing, and the inner of the thistle is outlined in the metal Or of its field.

Grant of arms Chief Herald of Malta

Blazon keywords: Vert, Party per chevron, Or, In chief, Sackbut, Fesswise, In base, Thistle, Leaved, Slipped, Proper, Motto, Crest and mantling, Helm, Mantling, Wreath and Crest.

Style keywords: Iridescent (nacar), Outlined in sable, Outlined in the field tincture, Illuminated and Pointed.

Classification: Personal, Interpreted, Grant of arms, Heraldic document and Coat of arms.

Bearer: Sky, Laird.

Separador heráldico
Escudo de Castilla y León

Richard Allen Stowe, structured and parallel blazons

Iridescent finishing.

Iridescent finishing.

This is an example of my approach to writing structured and parallel blazons in English and Castilian. I use the heraldic term «leopard», instead «lion guardant», because I seek the maximum parallelism between English and Castilian, and in Castilian we also use the heraldic term «leopard».


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, Iridescent (nacar), Pointed and Outlined in sable.

Classification: Structured and parallel blazons, Coat of arms, Interpreted and Personal.

Bearer: Stowe, Richard Allen.

Separador heráldico
Escudo de Castilla y León

Sosa-Garcia, Rodolfo

Argent, an eagle displayed Gules, crowned, langued, membered and armed, charged on its chest with a mullet of six points voided, and interlaced Or.

Zurich, Switzerland.

Argent, an eagle displayed Gules, crowned, langued, membered and armed, charged on its chest with a mullet of six points voided, and interlaced Or.

Escudo de plata, un águila de gules, coronada, lampasada, membrada y armada, cargada en su pecho de una estrella de seis puntas, hueca y entrelazada todo de oro.

Illuminated with lights and shadows and with a iridescent finish.

Another version of this blazon «Argent, a eagle displayed Gules, crowned, langued, membered and armed, charged on its chest with a star of David Or».


Blazon keywords: Without divisions, Argent, One, Eagle, Gules, Crowned, Langued, Membered, Armed, Charged, Mullet, Six, Base (lower 1/3), Voided, Interlaced and Or.

Style keywords: Iridescent (nacar), Outlined in sable, Illuminated and Pointed.

Classification: Personal and Created.

Bearer: Sosa-Garcia, Rodolfo.

Separador heráldico
Escudo de Castilla y León

Stauffenberg, Claus von

Argent, a fess Gules between two Lions passant Azure, langued Gules.

Argent, a fess Gules between two Lions passant Azure, langued Gules.

I have interpreted this coat of arms with a semi-circular shape; tintures argent, gules, and azure; outlined with sable; and a iridiscent finishing.


Blazon keywords: Argent, One, Fess, Gules, Between, Two, Lion passant, Azure and Langued.

Style keywords: Semi-circular, Iridescent (nacar) and Outlined in sable.

Classification: Interpreted, Personal and Coat of arms.

Bearer: Stauffenberg, Claus von.

Separador heráldico
Escudo de Castilla y León

The American College of Heraldry, blazon

Azure, a saltire between, in chief and in base, two thistle couped Argent; an inescutcheon Gules.

Azure, a saltire between, in chief and in base, two thistle couped Argent; an inescutcheon Gules.

Escudo de azur, un sotuer acompanado, en jefe y en punta, de dos cardos de nuridos todo de plata; un escusón de gules.

Coat of arms interpreted with the following characteristics: the shape of its shield is semicircular; the field is a flat tint of Azure; the two thistles and the saltire are illuminated of the metal Argent and outlined in Sable; the inescutcheon is illuminated of the colour Gules and, also, outlined in Sable; and the whole with a mother-of-pearl finish with a raised stroke.

Inescutcheon ~ escusón

The English term «inescutcheon» corresponds to our Spanish term «escusón». It is called an inescutcheon when there is only one and it is placed in the abyss of the shield.

Escutcheon ~ escudete

The English term «escutcheon» corresponds to our Spanish term «escudete». It is used when there are several, for example, 3. Although in this case there is only one, this is the term used in the official blazon of this coat of arms, as will be seen below.

Thistle ~ cardo

This coat of arms of The Heraldry Society of Scotland was registered and granted ~ «granted» on 7th September 1977, by «The Court of the Lord Lyon», which is the official college of arms for Scotland, lyon-court.com, with the following blazon: «Azure, on a saltire argent between two thistles slipped argent, one in chief and one in base, an escutcheon gules» and it contains 2 thistles, which is the national flower of Scotland, and a saltire Argent on an Azure field, like the flag of Scotland.

Slipped ~ nurido

The usual way of representing the thistle ~ «thistle» in Castile is with its roots visible, it is called «arrancado». In this case the stem is cut and its roots are not visible, it is called «slipped» ~ «nurido».


Blazon keywords: Without divisions, Azure, Saltire, Argent, Thistle, Couped (tree), In chief, In base, Inescutcheon and Gules.

Style keywords: Illuminated, Outlined in sable, Iridescent (nacar), Freehand and Semi-circular.

Classification: Interpreted, Socioeconomic and Coat of arms.

Bearer: The Heraldry Society of Scotland.

Separador heráldico
Escudo de Castilla y León

Thomas Grenville, 1453-1513

Gules, three Clarions Or.

Lord of the manors of Stowe in the parish of Kilkhampton in Cornwall and of Bideford in Devon, and Sheriff of Cornwall.

Gules, three Clarions Or.


Blazon keywords: Without divisions, Gules, Three, Clarion and Or.

Style keywords: Iridescent (nacar), Soft metal, Outlined in sable and Illuminated.

Classification: Interpreted and Kingdom of England.

Bearer: Grenville, Thomas.

Separador heráldico
Escudo de Castilla y León

Ukraine, pointed

Azure, a Tryzub Or.

Azure, a Tryzub Or.

Escudo de azur, un tryzub de oro.

Interpreted coat of arms: with a pointed shape; illuminated with metals or and color azure; outlined with sable; and an iridescent finish for the field and metallic of the tryzub.


Blazon keywords: Without divisions, Azure, Trident and Or.

Style keywords: Ogee, Illuminated, Outlined in sable, Iridescent (nacar) and Soft metal.

Classification: Coat of arms, Interpreted, Civic and State of Ukraine.

Bearer: Ukraine.

Separador heráldico
Escudo de Castilla y León

Vittorio Gifra, triangular curved shape and iridescent finish

Paly of six Azure and Or; over all a bend Azure.

Palato d’azzurro e d’oro di sei pezzi, alla banda del primo attraversante sul tutto.

Paly of six Azure and Or; over all a bend Azure.


Blazon keywords: Paly, Six, Azure, Or, Surmounted, Overall (deprecated) and Bend.

Style keywords: Triangular curved, Iridescent (nacar), Illuminated and Outlined in sable.

Classification: Coat of arms, Interpreted and Personal.

Bearer: Gifra, Vittorio.

 

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