Lozenge: Asuncion and de la Asuncion, lineages. Bosque, J. del; 1540. Crest, mantling and motto of Jose

Asuncion and de la Asuncion, lineages

Gules, three lozenges Or.

Escudo de gules, tres losanjes de oro.

Arms painted by me, highlighted with lights and shadows, outlined in Sable, with a semi-circular external shape and with a leather finish.

Coat of arms of the lineages Asuncion and de la Asuncion emblazoned by me.

Blazon keywords: Gules, Or, Three and Lozenge.

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

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

Bearer: Asuncion and de la Asuncion, lineages.

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

Bosque, J. del; 1540

Main coat of arms of the Armory Book of the Kingdom of Navarre

Juan del Bosque, «Libro de Armería del Reino de Navarra», which is currently missing and whose subsequent copy, commissioned in 1572, is kept in the Royal and General Archive of Navarre, estimated year of creation 1540.

The origin of this armorial dates back to 1527, when the Navarrese Courts requested that the Royal Council and the Chamber of Comptos ~ Chamber of Accounts and Fiscal Control, record in a book the coats of arms of the kingdom of Navarre starting with that of the king of Navarre and the houses and lineages of the so-called «ricoshombres», Almorrabides, Guebara, Aybar, Baztanes, Urroz, Lete, Subiça, Rada, Vidaurre, Qasqante, Monteagudo, and Mauleón, also including the coats of arms of other manors, houses, valleys, towns, and nobles [Valverde Ogallar, P. B.; 2001; page 326].

According to [Martinena Ruiz, J. J.; 1982; page 35] the book was compiled around the year 1540, and this is the date I use for referencing this armorial.

This first manuscript created by Juan del Bosque was taken by the royal visitor Hernán Suárez de Toledo, under the pretext of taking it to Emperor Charles V, despite being requested back by the Navarrese Courts, it was never returned and was definitively lost. The armorial that has come down to us is a recreation commissioned in 1572 [Valverde Ogallar, P. B.; 2001; page 327].

According to [Menéndez Pidal de Navascués, F.; 1974; page 19] the recreation of this armorial was carried out based on certifications, such as those from the herald Azcárraga, and notes and partial copies of the stolen book, like the copy kept in the monastery of Leyre.

Another noteworthy bibliographic reference about this armorial, in addition to those previously mentioned, is [Martinena Ruiz, J. J.; Menéndez Pidal de Navascués, F.; 2001].

The image illustrating this bibliographic reference is the coat of arms of the king of Navarre, which I recreated based on the illustration in this armorial, on its first folio according to the numbering given to it in 1613.

Bibliographical reference of century XVI.

Author: Bosque, Juan del.

Here are the articles quoting this reference:

Crest, mantling and motto of Jose Manuel Gutiérrez Benítez

Azure, a chevron engrailed Or between three lozenges Argent, each charged with a fleur de lis Gules; a bordure compony of eight sections, four Vert each charged with a castle triple-towered Or, port and windows Azure, masoned Sable, and four Argent each charged with a bull's head caboshed Sable. Crest: Upon a helm lined Gules, with a wreath Or and Azure, five ostrich feathers, alternately three Azure and two Or. Mantling: Azure doubled Or. Motto: «Honor et Veritas Semper Prorsus» Sable, with initial letters Gules, over a scroll Argent.

Arms devised by me, illuminated with lights and shadows, outlined in Sable, with a semi-circular external shape and with a watercolor finishing.

Blazon keywords: Azure, Or, Argent, Gules, Vert, Sable, One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Eight, Chevron, Engrailed, Lozenge, Fleur de lis, Bordure, Compony, Castle, Triple-towered, Port and windows, Masoned, Bull, Head, Caboshed, Crest and mantling, Crest, Upon (wreath), Helm, Lined, Wreath, Ostrich feathers, Alternately, Mantling and Motto.

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

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

Bearer: Gutiérrez Benítez, Jose Manuel.

Crest, mantling and motto of Luis Gerardo Oyervides Ochoa

Sable, a kapok tree eradicated and fructed between in base two lozenges Argent. Crest: Upon a helm with a wreath Argent and Sable, a dove grasping in its beak a mullet Argent. Mantling: Sable doubled Argent. Motto: «Antequam Glorificetur Humiliatur» Sable, with initial letters Gules, over a scroll Argent.

Coat of arms devised by me, highlighted with lights and shadows, outlined in Sable, with a semi-circular outer contour and with a rough finish.

Blazon keywords: Sable, Argent, One, Two, Kapok tree, Tree, Eradicated, Fructed, Between, In base, Lozenge, Crest and mantling, Crest, Upon (wreath), Helm, Wreath, Dove, Grasping, Beak, Mullet, Mantling, Motto and Scroll.

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

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

Bearer: Oyervides Ochoa, Luis Gerardo.

Dimidiation vs. impalement, comparative schema

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Dimidiation~dimidiated vs impalement~impaled.

Blazons

Azure, a lozenge Argent.
Argent, a fleur de lis Azure.
Dimidiated: 1 Azure, a lozenge Argent; 2 Argent, a fleur de lis Azure.
Party per pale: 1 Azure, a lozenge Argent; 2 Argent, a fleur de lis Azure.

Blazon keywords: Dimidiated, Party per pale, Azure, One, Lozenge, Argent and Fleur de lis.

Style keywords: Outlined in sable.

Classification: Schema and Coat of arms.

Jason Landers Northam, hand-drawn

A lozenge Or, charged with a fox rampant, guardant, holding in its dexter paw a federschwert bend sinisterwise proper, within a bordure Vert.

Heraldic badge of Jason Landers Northam from Illinois. The image combines a photograph of a drawing of a fox rampant, guardant, holding in its dexter paw a federschwert bend sinisterwise, together with his badge shown both in plain tinctures and with lights and shadows, all painted by me.

Blazon keywords: Or, Vert, One, Lozenge, Fox, Rampant, Guardant, Federschwert, Sword, Proper, Within and Bordure.

Style keywords: Outlined in sable and Illuminated.

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

Bearer: Northam, Jason Landers.

Lasuncion Patus, Francisco Javier

Gules, three lozenges Or; a bordure lozengy Gules and Or.

Escudo de gules, tres losanjes de oro; una bordura losanjada de gules y oro.

Arms devised by me, highlighted with lights and shadows, outlined in Sable, with a semi-circular external shape and with a leather finishing.

Coat of arms of Javier Lasuncion Patus designed by him and me and emblazoned by me.

Design rationale

The field is Gules with charges of Or, as in the coats of arms of the lineages Asuncion and de la Asuncion and lineage Patus. In both lineages, there are three well-ordered Or elements, 2 and 1. The lozenges come from the first lineage and are complemented by a lozengy border. The lineage Patus, instead of three lozenges, features three fleurs de lis on a field of Or.

Blazon keywords: Gules, Or, One, Three, Lozenge, Lozengy and Bordure.

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

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

Bearer: Lasuncion Patus, Francisco Javier.

Lozengy 5x6 and 6x7

There are 2 rhombuses in heraldry: the lozenge and the fusil. I like to represent the lozenge, which is a less elongated rhombus than the fusil, as a square with its 2 diagonals placed one vertically and the other horizontally. Lozengy and fusilly consist of filling the entire space with lozenges, in the first case, or with fusils, in the second case, joined 4 by 4 at their corners.

[Avilés, J.; 1780a; page 25] writes «Fusils, Lozenges, and Mascles can be accolados, when they touch with their flanks; and to be so called, the entire Shield must not be filled with these figures, because in that case it would be called Fusilly, or Fuselado and Lozengy.».

In this case, two lozengy schemata of lozenges are presented with their 4 angles at 90^o, the first 5 wide by 6 high, which is exact because the angles are 90^o and it matches the 5x6 dimensions of the coat of arms and the second 6 wide by 7 high, which may be more suitable for shields that resemble the structure of per pale of three.

In [Cadenas y Vicent, V. de; 1987] one can see written both «losange» with «g» and «losanje» with «j», although the occurrences of «losange» with «g» are more than double those of «losanje» with «j».

In [Royal Spanish Academy; 2014] only the term «losange» with «g» is recorded, it says it comes from the French «losange» and defines it as «a rhombus figure placed so that one of the acute angles is at the base and its opposite at the top.».

Blazon keywords: Lozengy and Lozenge.

Style keywords: Semi-circular.

Classification: Schema.

Lozengy and fusilly

The schema represents a lozengy of 6x5 lozenges in the shape of a rhombus, which is exact, and a fusilly of 6x3 fusils, rhombuses more elongated than the lozenge, which is also exact.

Blazon keywords: Lozengy, Lozenge, Fusilly and Fusil.

Style keywords: Semi-circular.

Classification: Schema.

Lozengy, comparison between 5x6 and 6x7

Comparison between lozengy of 5x6 lozenges and 6x7 lozenges based on the coats of arms of Thomas de Warbrentone and of Pierre de Forcade. It can be observed that, for example, in the case where there is a central pale of Gules, this fits better over the metal Or in the lozengy of smaller lozenges, the 6x7 one, than in the lozengy of larger lozenges, the 5x6 one.

Blazon keywords: Lozengy and Lozenge.

Style keywords: Semi-circular.

Classification: Schema.

Navarra, closed carbuncle

Escudo de gules, un carbunclo cerrado, pomelado de oro; cargado en el centro de una esmeralda en forma de losange de sinople.

Coat of arms interpreted with: a semicircular (round) base; the field in flat Gules; the pommetty carbuncle and the emerald illuminated in Or and Vert, shaded and outlined in Sable; and the whole finished in lightly-hammered metal.

In addition to historical documents such as the armorials [Urfé; 15^th century] which blazons it and [Bosque, J. del; 1540] which illustrates it, there is, in the last half century, an abundant bibliography on the arms of Navarre, for example: [Menéndez Pidal de Navascués, F.; 1963], [Menéndez Pidal de Navascués, F.; 1974], [Martinena Ruiz, J. J.; 1982], [Menéndez Pidal de Navascués, F.; 1999], [Menéndez Pidal de Navascués, F.; Martínez de Aguirre, J.; 2000], [Martinena Ruiz, J. J.; Menéndez Pidal de Navascués, F.; 2001] and [Martínez de Aguirre, J.; 2007].

This pommetty shield can also be seen, for example, on the outer façade of the convent of Santo Domingo in Estella, on capitals preserved in the Cathedral of Tudela and on capitals of the church of Santa María la Real of Laguardia, the latter dating from the 14^th century.

Blazon keywords: Without divisions, Gules, One, Carbuncle, Pommelled, Or, Charged, In the fess point, Emerald, Vert and Lozenge.