Re: [Mid] Re: Quartering of Arms

The official reason why quartered arms aren't registered is that the use
of such arms (your father's and mother's arms together in separate
quarters) more than being a simple statement about being related to the
original holders of those arms, was actually a statement that you are
the inheritor of the lands associated with those arms. According to
Corpora claims of landedness in the SCA are only allowed by "the Crown,
the Coronet, and the territorial Barons and Baronesses", so, the SCA's
College of Arms does not register such designs for people.

If you want to design your arms to show association with your parents,
or want to encourage your children to do so with your arms, quartering
very probably isn't the way (for one thing, in period you would
typically only have displayed them that way, without some sort of
additional mark, after your parents died). The easy & accurate thing to
do is to use the same design as your father or mother, with one small
difference (changing the color of the central charge, putting a charge
on the central charge, adding a peripheral charge such as a bordure,
etc.). That's why the CoA insists on 2 differences anyway, because
making only 1 change to a coat of arms (called "differencing") is a very
standard, and very ancient, way of saying "Hey, we're related".

On another note:

>> Define "gyrony," please.
>
> Ok, so I can't spell... never took French, anyway...
><grumble, grumble>
> It's the swirly background, like a pinwheel.

Actually, that's "gyronny arrondy" (the 'arrondy' indicates that the
lines curve, instead of being straight). 'Gyronny' indicates that the
background is divided into multiple equal sections, typically 8 but as
few as six or as many as 16 (more is probably possible, at least in
modern mundane heraldry). Think of the way a pizza (traditional, not
Sicilian) is cut up.

Dmitrii Volkovich

From: "Polzinetti, John M." <John.Polzinetti@lexis-nexis.com>
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Received on Sun Jan 4 02:28:38 1998