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Peel, baker’s

Baker’s peel charged with breadloaves (Period)

A baker’s peel, or baker’s paddle, is a long-handled wooden spatula, used for placing bread into (and taking it out of) ovens. It is therefore often shown with manchets, or breadloaves, on the paddle. The baker’s peel is a period charge, found in the canting arms (Italian pala) of Palazolo, mid-15^th C. [Triv 281]. Its default orientation is palewise, paddle to chief [Parker 450]. See also oar, spade.

Giacomo Fornerigo bears: Or, a baker’s peel bendwise sinister sable charged with three loaves of bread Or sustained by an arm embowed issuant from sinister proper vested sable, a chief rayonny gules.

Rowena Longstrider bears: Purpure, a cooking pot between a mascle of four baker’s paddles, heads to chief argent.

Tomas de Courcy bears as a badge: On a baker’s peel vert three plates.

Panther

Panther rampant guardant (Period)

Continental panther rampant (Period)

The unmodified term “panther” refers to a kindly monster, described in medieval bestiaries as beautiful and amiable, whose sweet breath drives away evil. Heraldically, the panther comes in two widely differing forms; current Society practice grants heraldic difference between them.

In English armory, the panther is depicted as a maneless lion, “incensed”, i.e., with flames spewing from its mouth and ears (a misrendering of its “sweet breath”), and the coat strewn with roundels (frequently multi-colored). This form is usually found guardant in period armory, as with the badge of Henry VI, d.1471 [HB 110]; the illustration shows a panther rampant guardant. This is considered the default panther in Society armory.

In Continental armory, the panther is depicted with a lion’s body and an eagle’s forelimbs; it usually has the head of a horse or bull, and occasionally has horns as well. Like the English form, it is incensed. In Society armory, this form is blazoned a “Continental panther” or “German panther”; the illustration shows a Continental panther rampant. As an heraldic charge, it dates from c.1340, in the arms of Styria [Zurich 31]. Some authors speculate that it might have been the precursor of the monster now called a “male griffin” or “keythong”.

Over the years, the Society has changed its default postures for panthers, of both sorts. Current practice is that both types of panther are not guardant by default; the guardant English panther can be so blazoned.

When blazoned a “natural panther”, the term refers to the great feline beast as found in nature; it may also be blazoned by the period term “ounce”, or the Society term “catamount”.

Elspeth Colquhoun bears: Purpure, in pale two panthers passant counter-passant guardant argent spotted of diverse tinctures and incensed proper.

Talon the Bastard bears: Pean, two panthers rampant addorsed Or spotted sable.

Alrick von Baeker bears: Or, a Continental panther passant bendwise azure incensed gules.

William the Silent bears: Or, a natural panther passant guardant sable.

Pall

Pall (Period)

Pall inverted (Accepted)

The pall is an heraldic ordinary, a Y-shaped form joining the points of the shield with its center. Its width is one-third to one-fifth that of the shield. The pall is a peculiarly Scots ordinary, found in the arms of Cunningham, 1542 [Lindsay]. Like the cross, the pall has no diminutives; it is often found inverted in Society heraldry.

Shakefork (Period)

Pallium (Disallowed)

Other special terms include the “shakefork”, a pall humetty. There is also the “pallium”, a pall whose lower limb is couped and fringed; in period it was often used in archepiscopal arms (e.g., Henry de Lowndres, Archbishop of Dublin, 1215 [Michael Heenon, Coats of Arms of Magna Carta Barons, 1965, p.9]), and is therefore a disallowed charge in the Society. Unlike most ordinaries, no difference is granted between a pall (throughout) and any of the truncated palls.

It’s permitted for a pall’s limbs to be treated in the same manner as those of the cross: e.g., a “pall patonce” or a “pall formy”. The “pall nowy” is considered a step from period practice. For related charges, see fork, triskelion.

The Baron of Carolingia bears: Azure, a pall wavy and in chief a laurel wreath Or.

The Shire of Trivium bears: Gules, on a pall Or three laurel wreaths sable.

Morgan Blackshield bears: Pean, a pall Or.

Michael Gerard Curtememoire bears: Potenty argent and sable, a pall gules.

Dan of Hamildoon bears: Azure, a shakefork inverted Or.

Palette, artist’s

Artist’s palette (Accepted)

An artist’s palette is a mixing surface for pigment and other media. As an heraldic charge, it is unique to the Society, and is rendered as a conventionalized drawing of a roughly rectangular board with a thumb-hole in it.

David de Kunstenaar bears: Vert, on an artist’s palette Or a lion’s head erased to sinister vert.

Godwig Eadfrithing bears: Argent, on an artist’s palette azure an inkpot argent.

Musimon

Musimon rampant (Period)

The musimon is an heraldic monster said to be a combination of a goat and a ram, with the horns of both. It’s considered a period charge, described (though not attributed) by Guillim, 1610 [179]. The Society grants no difference between the musimon and the goat.

The musimon does not seem to have a default posture; the illustration shows a musimon rampant. For related charges, see goat, sheep.

Gideon ap Stephen bears: Per bend sinister argent and sable, a musimon rampant counterchanged.

Thomas von Wildtstein bears: Per pale gules and sable, a musimon rampant contourny within a bordure Or.

Oda Wlslagre dicta Widoeghe bears: Gules, a musimon rampant argent spotted sable and in chief two wool combs fesswise Or.

Monsters

As used in heraldry, the term “monster” describes any creature not found in nature: a fabulous beastie, a product of the imagination. Some heraldic monsters were thought to represent actual beasts (e.g., the antelope), but their forms differ so widely from the natural beasts that they are considered separate and imaginary creatures. In such cases, if the natural beast is intended, the term “natural” must be included in the blazon; otherwise, the heraldic monster is used.

There are some special categories of monsters, classed by their form or construction. These include: chimerical monsters, humanoid monsters, sea-monsters, and winged monsters.

For specific monsters, see: allocamelus, alphyn, amphisbaena, antelope, bagwyn, bog beast, boreyne, calamarie (kraken), calygreyhound, camelopard, centaur, chatloup, chimera, cockatrice, dragon, enfield, griffin, harpy, hippogriff, Hrassvelg monster, ibex, lamia, lion-dragon, man-serpent, manticore, man-tyger, mermaid, musimon, naga, Norse beasts, opinicus, orm, pantheon, panther, pegasus, phoenix, piping beast, pithon, salamander, sea-horse, sea-lion, senmurv, silkie, sphinx, tarasque, theow, tyger, unicorn, vegetable lamb, werewolf, yale, ypotryll.

Sources

The following abbreviations are used in the Pictorial Dictionary to refer to specific frequently-cited sources:

[ANA1]
Humphery-Smith, C. R. Anglo-Norman Armory. Family History, 1973.

[ANA2]
Humphery-Smith, C.R. Anglo-Norman Armory Two: An ordinary of 13th Century armorials. Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies, 1984.

[Armeria]
Pidal de Navascues, F.M. Libro de Armeria del Reino de Navarra (Book of Arms of the Kingdom of Navarre). La Gran Enciclopedia Vasca, Bilbao, 1974 (orig. compiled mid-16^th C).

[Asp2]
London, H.S., & Tremlett, T. Aspilogia II: Rolls of Arms temp. Henry III. Society of Antiquaries, 1967.

[Bedingfeld]
Bedingfeld, H., & Gwynn-Jones, P. Heraldry. Chartwell Books, 1993.

[Bossewell]
Bossewell, J. Workes of Armorie. Da Capo Press, reprinted 1969 (orig. pub 1572).

[Brault]
Brault, G. Early Blazon: Heraldic Terminology in the 12th and 13th Centuries. Oxford University Press, 1972.

[Brault2]
Brault, G. Eight Thirteenth Century Rolls of Arms. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1973.

[BSB]
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (National Library of Bavaria). Online resource of scanned documents from the Bavarian National Library collection, including many heretofore unavailable rolls of arms. At http://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/index.html?c=startseite&l=en&projekt= with search capabilities.

[Conz.Const.]
von Richtental, U. Chronicle of the Council of Constance (Das Concilium zu Constenz). Compiled 1413; illustrated and published 1536.

[DBA1]
Chesshyre, H., & Woodcock, T. Dictionary of British Arms: Medieval Ordinary, vol.1. Society of Antiquaries of London, 1992.

[DBA2]
Woodcock, T., & Grant, J. Dictionary of British Arms: Medieval Ordinary, vol.2. Society of Antiquaries of London, 1996.

[DBA3]
Woodcock, T., & Flower, S. Dictionary of British Arms: Medieval Ordinary, vol.3. Society of Antiquaries of London, 2009.

[DBA4]
Woodcock, T., & Flower, S. Dictionary of British Arms: Medieval Ordinary, vol.4. Society of Antiquaries of London, 2014.

[de Bara]
de Bara, H. Le Blason des Armoiries (The Blazon of Armory). Chez Jean de Bonnot, reprinted 1975 (orig. pub. 1581).

[Dennys]
Dennys, R. The Heraldic Imagination. Clarkson N. Potter, 1975.

[Dennys CoA]
Annotations and amendments to Dennys, The Heraldic Imagination, in a book review by A. Colin Cole. Coat of Arms II(98), Summer 1976.

[Franklyn]
Franklyn, J., & Tanner, J. An Encyclopædic Dictionary of Heraldry. Pergamon Press, 1970.

[Friar]
Friar, S. A Dictionary of Heraldry. Harmony Books, 1987.

[GATD]
Le grand armorial équestre de la Toison d’Or (Great Armorial of the Order of the Golden Fleece). Edited by Michel Pastoureau and Michel Popoff. Éditions du Gui, 2001 (orig. compiled c.1460).

[Gelre]
Heinenzoon, C. The Armorial de Gelre. Edited by C. Van den Bergen et al. Jan van Helmont, 1992 (orig. pub. c.1370).

[Grove]
Sadie, S., et al. The New Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Grove’s Dictionaries, Inc., 2^nd edition, 2001.

[Guide]
Fox-Davies, A. C. A Complete Guide to Heraldry. Revised and annotated by J.P. Brooke-Little. Bonanza Books, 1985 (orig. pub. 1909).

[Guillim1], [Guillim2]
Guillim, J. A Display of Heraldrie. London. 1^st edition, 1610 [Guillim1]; 2^nd edition, 1632 [Guillim2].

[Gwynn-Jones]
Gwynn-Jones, P. The Art of Heraldry: Origins, Symbols and Designs. Prospero Books, 1998.

[Hawley]
Hawley, W. & Chappelear, K. Mon: The Japanese Family Crest. W. M. Hawley Press, 1976.

[HB]
Fox-Davies, A. C. Heraldic Badges. John Lane, 1907.

[HCE]
Heralds’ Commemorative Exhibition, 1484-1934. English College of Arms, London, 1936.

[Her.Alph]
Brooke-Little, J. P. An Heraldic Alphabet. Arco Publishing, 2^nd edition, 1975.

[Hope]
Hope, Wm. St.John. A Grammar of English Heraldry. Cambridge University Press, 2^nd edition, 1953.

[Hope2]
Hope, Wm. St.John. Heraldry for Craftsmen and Designers. Pitman & Sons, 1929.

[Ingeram]
Ingeram, H. The Ingeram Codex (also called the Codex Cotta after one of its owners). Edited by C. Becher and O. Gamber. Hermann Böhlaus, 1986 (orig. compiled c.1450).

[Legh]
Legh, G. The Accidens of Armory. London, 1576.

[Mayer]
Mayer, L.A. Saracenic Heraldry. Oxford University Press, 1933.

[Neubecker]
Neubecker, O. Heraldry: Sources, Symbols and Meaning. McGraw-Hill Books, 1976.

[Nobreza]
Godinho, A. Livro da Nobreza e Perfeicam das Armas (Book of Nobility). Edited by M. de Albuquerque and J.P. de Abreu e Lima. Edicoes Inapa, 1987 (orig. pub. c.1540). [Nobreza]

[NW]
Raber, V. Vigil Rabers Neustifter Wappenbuch. Edited by H.W. Arch. Verlag A. Weger, Brixen, 2001 (orig. compiled mid-16^th C.).

[Parker]
Parker, J. A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry. Charles E. Tuttle, reprinted 1970 (orig. pub. 1894).

[Pastoureau]
Pastoureau, M. Traité d’Héraldique. Picard, 2^nd edition, 1993.

[RH]
Holme, R. Randle Holme’s Book. Edited by Oswald Barron as “A Fifteenth Century Book of Arms”, The Ancestor, 1902 (orig. compiled c.1460).

[Scheibler]
Scheibler, first name unknown. Scheibler’schen Wappenbuch (Scheibler’s Roll of Arms), c.1450. Online at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scheibler_Armorial.

[Scots]
Campbell, C. The Scots Roll: A Study of a Fifteenth Century Roll of Arms. Heraldry Society of Scotland, 1995 (orig. compiled c.1455).

[Siddons]
Siddons, M. Heraldic Badges in England and Wales. Boydell Press, 2009.

[Siebmacher]
Siebmacher, J. The Roll of Arms (Dem Wappenbuch). Edited by Horst Appuhn. Harenberg, 1989 (orig. pub. 1605).

[TJ]
Jenyn, T. Thomas Jenyn’s Book. Heraldry Society of Scotland, Peebles, 1983 (orig. compiled c.1410).

[Triv]
Maspoli, C. Stemmario Trivulziano. Niccolo’ Orsini de Marzo, Milan, 2000 (orig. compiled mid-15th C.).

[Volborth]
von Volborth, C.A. Heraldry: Customs, Rules and Styles. Blandford Press, 1981.

[Walden]
de Walden, H. Banners, Standards and Badges, from a Tudor Manuscript in the College of Arms. The de Walden Library, 1904 (orig. compiled c.1510).

[Woodcock & Robinson]
Woodcock, T., & Robinson, J. The Oxford Guide to Heraldry. Oxford University Press, 1988.

[Woodward]
Woodward, J., & Burnett, G. A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign. Charles E. Tuttle, reprinted 1969 (orig. pub. 1896).

[Zurich]
The Zurich Roll of Arms (Wappenrolle von Zürich, Rôle d’Armes de Zurich). Edited by Michel Popoff. Léopard d’Or, 1986 (orig. compiled c.1340).

Knot: weaver’s knot

Weaver’s knot (Disallowed)

The “weaver’s knot” is a Society invention; while weavers certainly used knots in period, we’ve no evidence of this knot being particularly associated with weaving, and no period heraldic examples have been adduced. Pending documentation, the weaver’s knot has been disallowed for Society use.

Margaret Johanna van Artevelde bears: Per pale potenty argent and vert, in bend a weaver’s knot sable and a woad plant Or, stalked and leaved argent.

Insects

Butterfly (Period)

Spider (Period)

The term “insect”, as used here, refers to any “bug-type” creature: true insects, arachnids, and other arthropods. Examples found in period heraldry include the “ant”, also called an “emmet” for canting purposes [Guillim1 151]; the “beetle”, found in the arms of Teufel, 1605 [Siebmacher 42]; the “butterfly”, also called a “papillon”, found in the arms of Burnynghill, c.1410 [TJ 1447]; the “grasshopper”, in the arms of Woodward, c.1500 [DBA2 380]; the “spider” [Guillim1 151]; the “stag beetle”, whose pincers are drawn as actual stag’s attires, in the crest of Hartwell, early 16^th C. [Bedingfeld 104]; and the “fly”, sometimes specified as a “gad-fly”, “house-fly”, or “horse-fly”, in the arms of da Varexio, mid-15^th C. [Triv 364].

Scarab (Accepted)

Dragonfly (Accepted)

In Society armory, we have examples of the “cockroach”; the “dragonfly”; the “ladybug”; the “moth”; the “praying mantis”; the “caterpillar”, which is statant by Society default; and the “scarab”, usually stylized as in ancient Egyptian art. Smaller insects, such as the flea, have been deemed unsuitable for Society use.

All winged insects are volant en arrière by default; this posture may also be blazoned simply “volant”, and in the Society is sometimes misblazoned “displayed” as well. Unwinged insects are in general tergiant by default, with heads to chief; the exceptions are the grasshopper, which is statant, and the praying mantis, which must be explicitly blazoned. Their posture is sometimes qualified by such terms as “extended”, “displayed”, &c; such qualifiers are usually superfluous.

Permissible insect postures other than the defaults are limited. As of this writing, insects may not be rampant, but may be statant. Winged insects may not be rising; when winged insects are statant, Society convention has their wings addorsed. Those insects tergiant by default may be tergiant inverted, if their identifiability is not compromised, but this is usually considered a step from period practice.

Generally, insects do not have “proper” tinctures, but Society armory has a few cases. The “butterfly proper” is tinctured as found in nature; the breed of butterfly must then be specified. The “ladybug proper” is gules, spotted sable (with the legs and head usually sable as well).

The illustrations show a butterfly, a spider, a scarab, and a dragonfly; all are in their default postures. For specific entries, see bee, scorpion.

Elizabeth Papillon bears: Per bend purpure and Or, six butterflies counterchanged.

Daria Joan de Courtenay bears: Argent, a praying mantis rising, wings addorsed vert.

Adrianna de la Telaraña bears: Per pale sable and Or, a spider tergiant counterchanged.

Daffyd of Emmett bears: Gyronny of twelve gules and Or, an emmet sable.

Andrew of Seldom Rest bears: Or, a dragonfly displayed gules.

Laurent le Noir bears: Pean, a winged scarab within a bordure Or.

Duncan Prymrois bears: Azure, on a bend sinister cotised Or a stag beetle sable.

Johannes Gotzmann bears: Argent, a grasshopper contourny, a bordure vert.

Crónán Colach bears: Argent, on a four-leaved clover slipped bendwise vert a caterpillar argent, on a chief engrailed vert a sword argent.

Ink bottle

Inkbottle (Period)

Ink pot (Accepted)

An ink bottle is a short, squat vessel for holding a writer’s ink; it’s also called an “ink flask”, “ink horn”, or “ink well”, though the shape remains unchanged. It’s normally found as half of a penner and inkhorn, but we have at least one period example of its use as a separate charge: the arms of Abbot, d.1487 [DBA2 314].

There is also the “ink pot”, more ornate and less portable than a standard ink bottle; though a period artifact, its use as a charge seems unique to Society heraldry. See also bottle, flask.

The West Kingdom College of Scribes bears: Sable, an ink flask Or.

The College of Boethius bears as a badge: Or, on an open book azure, an ink pot Or.

Ingrid the Fair bears: Or, three inkwells gules, on a chief azure a drakkar without sail argent.

Mistholme

heraldry, illumination, and random jottings