Cross: Quadrate

Cross (nowy) quadrate (Accepted)

Cross (nowy) quadrate (Accepted)

The “cross quadrate” is sometimes, more fully, termed a “cross nowy quadrate”.  It appears to have been an artistic flourish in period, at least for discrete crosses:  we’ve examples of the arms of Jerusalem with the center cross quadrate [Gelre 69v], which cannot be considered a cadency change.  The treatment is accepted for Society use; difference is granted when applied to a cross throughout (i.e., an ordinary), but not when applied to a discrete cross.

Eleanor FitzPatrick bears:  Per pale gules and Or, a cross quadrate couped counterchanged.

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