"Coats-Of-Arms: Where did they come from and Why?" Topic
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06 Mar 2023 10:19 p.m. PST
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- Changed title from "Coats-Of-Arms: Where did they como from and Why?" to "Coats-Of-Arms: Where did they come from and Why?"
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| Tango01 | 06 Mar 2023 4:36 p.m. PST |
"A surprising number of us have at least one noble ancestor.
Actually, this shouldn't be surprising. There was only so much land to go around, so over the centuries, some family lines quietly slipped down the social scale. More significantly, male aristocrats were the rock stars of their day. Up until Victorian times, great houses considered children born "on the wrong side of the sheet" to be an asset rather than a liability – it's handy to have family members who aren't in the line of succession and yet owe everything to the family.
When we think of noble ancestors, we think of "family crests", by which we usually mean what are, technically speaking, "the coats-of-arms belonging to our ancestors". We use the term "heraldry" both as a catch-all-for coats-of-arms – as in, "tell me about that lord's heraldry" – and to refer to the "Science of Heraldry", that is the ancient body of rules governing and describing such coats-of-arms…"
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Shagnasty  | 07 Mar 2023 9:33 a.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 07 Mar 2023 3:16 p.m. PST |
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GildasFacit  | 08 Mar 2023 4:05 a.m. PST |
Rather out of date on his ideas on the evolution of heraldry, at least in western Christendom. Interesting ideas but only part of the story. Don't take any notice of his link to COAD though, just another 'get your coat of arms' from your surname website. Surnames are not linked to heraldry; heraldry is personal (except for civic heraldry). |
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