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Heraldic insignia: How'd you pick yours?
March 24, 2009 - 8:46pm
There are alllll sorts of reasons I don't need to be worrying about this yet, but I'm still curious. How did all of you decide on your coat of arms, or whatever it's called (my brain, she is not working well atm)?
March 25, 2009 - 12:51am
#2
My heraldry
I like green.
I wanted silver rings (I've made lots of mail).
There is a vague relationship between the derivation of corwyn and corvus (ravens).
a chief made it more likely to pass
the original submission similar to my lady's (at the time) heraldic submission (which passed mere moments befoer mine, which caused mine to bounce, and I had to change it to what I have now.).
March 25, 2009 - 6:32am
#3
My first persona was a 6th
My first persona was a 6th century Breton warrior who served as a mercenary for Belisarius during his African campaigns. I really like melee fighting and picked a hyena because they are really good pack hunters. It was an ermine hyena because the arms of Brittany are "Ermine". (Of course, they post-date my time period by centuries...)
The blue background was for the sea that surrounds Brittany on three sides, and the black heart was because I was still a goober.
March 25, 2009 - 3:04pm
#4
daisy under a fence
My favorite flower is a Daisy. At the time the person in the SCA who had inspired me the most had Fretty or a lattice work on his heraldy. So I drew the two together, putting a white fretty on top of a white daisy on a blue background. Blue is one of my favorite colors. The heralds made me make a small change of a black line splitting the top from the bottom, the heraldy on the OP website is wrong it is a white fretty on a blue or azure background. Once drawing it out, we realized it was a weed under a fence and since I had moved 7 time in 5 years I thought it was appropriate.
March 26, 2009 - 9:37am
#5
Honestly? My chief concern
Honestly? My chief concern was that it be something relatively easy to draw - anything with animals, flowers, things-that-aren't-geometric was Right Out, as I wanted to be able to use it without having to get someone else to draw it for me.
Blue is my favorite color, Girard was registering ermine and that was cool, and the bordure was added so as to make it easy to get registered.
So, I ended up with Ermine, a bend azure and a bordure invected sable. Or, to put it in non-herald, White field with black ermine tails, with a blue stripe from top left (as you're looking at it) to bottom right, and a black scalloped border over the whole thing.
March 31, 2009 - 12:32pm
#6
Not registered yet but...
I haven't registered yet, but I was doing hard thinking and looking a few weeks ago. First I familiarized myself with the rules, then I browsed other people's devices online to see what I liked. I knew I wanted simple. I also definitely wanted a single pictoral charge, so then I looked at the heraldry guide to get an idea of what I could choose from. I found one I liked, then did some googling to see who else was using the charge and what I might have to do to keep mine different enough, and finally added an ordinary and picked colors that I thought altogether would look good and help it pass. Two charges and two colors, easy to recognize and reproduce!
But I'm not telling what it is yet! Hopefully I can submit my paperwork for device and name in a week or two.
April 3, 2009 - 7:47pm
#7
In the "old days" heraldry
In the "old days" heraldry was very complicated, they checked for conflict against everything. My first device reflected that challenge.
The SCA changed the rules some years ago and now only protects other SCA heraldry. I just flipped through the "big blue book of heraldry" The Art of Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, until I found something I liked.
Cheers, Eldrid
May 3, 2009 - 12:30pm
#8
I've long been interested in
I've long been interested in my own geneaology and the history of my family, and so I discovered the coats of arms of the two main contributors of my family tree, and I have decided that I will more than likely form a conglomerate of the two for the heraldy of the persona, Hadurich, that I will be creating.
May 29, 2009 - 3:43pm
#9
Hadurich,
Be careful getting
Hadurich,
Be careful getting your heart set on heraldry based on your family coats of arms. Many folks get in to find that "coats of arms" that can be found online and such, based on your last name, are already registered and/or are not medieval.
I origionally considered using arms based on my family's liniage. I'm willing to bet that given a bit of research, I could find documentation that would state I have the right to bear them in the everyday world. A few years later, I'm glad I didn't go that route.
Putting together a persona lets you re-invent yourself. I have to be Nick Soucy all week, at least on the weekends I get to be Girard le Bourguignon. Nick stares at computer screens and pushes buttons all day. Girard manages his estate, hunts, and prepaires for war.
Anyway, here's a link to the SCA's rules for submission for names and devices. http://heraldry.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/rfs.html You don't have to follow them, but if you don't, you can't register your work...
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For me, I wanted simple above all else. I wanted something sort of French in style. The fleur-de-lis was very popular in France, duh... and black was a favorite color. I could have gone black and gold, but that seems over used, so I went black and silver/white. Plain black and white seemed too easy, so I went for black and a fur, ermine. So, a herald friend helped me out a bit, and I got "per pale, ermine and sable, a fleur-de-lis counterchanged."