Cross portate (Period)
The “cross portate” is described in Legh, 1562 [31], and found in the arms of Tellini, c.1550 [BSB Cod.Icon 274:491]. Its use in Society heraldry is restricted to simple and balanced designs.
Guillaume di San Marino bears: Or, a cross portate pean, in dexter chief a goutte de sang.
Robert Blackhart bears: Argent, a cross portate reversed between three hearts sable.
Cross pomelly (Period)
The “cross pomelly” is also called a “cross bourdonny”, since its ends resemble pilgrims’ staves (bourdons). It’s described in Legh, 1562 [35v].
Dakyn de Blakemere bears: Gules, in cross five crosses pomelly fitchy Or.
Cross pointed (Accepted)
The “cross pointed” is a translation of the French croix aiguisée [Woodward 162]; it’s found in the arms of Dokenfield or Dukenfeld, c.1510 [DBA3 152]. It’s sometimes misblazoned a “cross fitched at all points”, but this is a solecism; see the discussion under crosses fitchy.
Bryan Adyngton bears: Per chevron throughout sable and argent, three Latin crosses pointed counterchanged argent and vert.
Cross of four pheons, conjoined at the points (Accepted)
The “cross of four pheons, conjoined at the points” is sometimes blazoned a “cross pheony” in mundane heraldry; the exact blazon by parts is preferred. Parker [155] cites it in the arms of Trubshawe, but no date is given.
The Baron of Glymm Mere bears as a badge: A cross of four pheons conjoined at the points azure.
Constance Waite bears: Vert, a cross of four pheons within a bordure invected argent.
Doubled cross (Period)
The “patriarchal cross” dates from at least c.1370, in the arms of the Kings of Hungary [Gelre 52v]. In its earliest depictions, it was shown with two crosspieces of equal length; and period blazons called it a Doppelkreuz, “doubled cross”. (The frontispiece to Siebmacher, 1605, blazons it as ein zweyfaches creutz, “a two-shelf cross”.)
Cross of Lorraine (Period)
Around the 15th Century, the lower crosspiece began to be drawn slightly longer; this variation was found throughout Eastern Europe (Ingeram, c.1450 [35], attributes it to St. Ladislaus, d.1095). René d’Anjou, who among his other titles was Duke of Lorraine, claimed the throne of Hungary, and used this cross as his badge; at the Battle of Nancy, 1477, René’s soldiers bore the Duke’s cross, which thereafter became known as the “cross of Lorraine”. [Sir George Bellew, “Two Crosses”, Coat of Arms, I(7), July 1951, p.227]
Patriarchal cross (Period)
Meanwhile, a form of the cross with a longer lower limb was still being called a “patriarchal cross” in England, in the arms of Brytton, c.1460 [RH]; and this is the form so named in most modern heraldry texts [e.g., Neubecker 107]. All of these forms are considered artistic variations, with no heraldic difference granted between them.
Karolus Janos bears: Sable, a patriarchal cross argent.
Lorraine Marcus bears: Quarterly vert and Or, a cross of Lorraine sable.
Deomotheor Zÿdmond bears: Azure semy of doubled crosses, a bordure Or.
Cross patonce (Period)
The “cross patonce” was sometimes called a “cross griffee-de-loup” (wolf-clawed) in medieval blazons; Victorian heraldic writers sometimes misblazoned it a “cross formy fitchy at all points” (cf. the discussion of the cross fitchy). As with the cross formy, the arms of the cross patonce may converge to a point, at the artist’s discretion. It is one of the oldest cross variants, found in the arms of the Counts of Aumale c.1244 [Asp2 216]. The cross patonce is negligibly different from the cross flory.
Arval Benicoeur bears: Per saltire Or and sable, a cross patonce counterchanged.
Elwyn Tenways bears: Per pale Or and gules, three crosses patonce counterchanged.
John de Rokyngham bears: Party of six argent and gules, three crosses patonce gules.
Cross parted and fretted (Period)
The “cross parted and fretted” may also be blazoned a “cross of two pallets and two barrulets fretted”. It is a period treatment [Legh 31].
Nathan Hartman bears: Quarterly sable and azure, a cross parted and fretted argent.
Brian Kunaganos bears: Argent, a cross parted and fretted within a bordure purpure.
Ceinwen Haele Cynwyth bears: Quarterly vert and purpure, a cross parted and fretted with an annulet Or.
Papal cross (Disallowed)
The “Papal cross” has three transverses, and is sometimes bottony or otherwise ornamented [Franklyn 249]. It is not permitted in Society heraldry.
Cross nowy (SFPP)
The “cross nowy” or “cross nowed” (literally “knotted”) doesn’t refer to a peculiar knotting or fretting, but is used in the sense of a knot of wood: a node or lump at the intersection. The nowing is circular by default, as in the illustration, but other shapes have been registered: e.g., a “cross nowed of a lozenge” or a “cross nowy quadrate“. While the term is found in modern heraldry texts [Volborth 21], no period examples of the cross nowy have yet been found; its use is considered a step from period practice.
Seamus mac Dhuibhne bears: Azure, a cross nowy argent within a bordure compony sable and Or.
Norse sun-cross (Accepted)
The “Norse sun-cross” is sometimes called an “Odin-cross” or a “sun-wheel”. It had once been disallowed as being equivalent to the astronomical symbol for the planet Earth, but is currently permitted for Society use.
Curwinus Trevirensis bears: Azure, a Norse sun cross within a bordure argent.
Jeane Kilmeny bears: Sable, on a fess argent three Norse sun crosses azure.
Kenneth MacQuarrie of Tobermory bears: Sable, a chevron checky argent and sable between three Norse sun crosses argent.