A simple heraldic cross (the default if there are no additional specifying words) has arms of roughly equal length, artistically proportioned to the particular shape of the shield, which extend to the edges of the shield. Illustrated is the blazon "Azure, a cross Or" (i.e. a yellow cross on a blue shield). Heraldry is the science and art of describing coats-of-arms, also referred to as armorial bearings or simply as arms. Its origins lie in the need to distinguish participants in battles or jousts and to describe the various devices they carried or painted on their shields. ... This is an article about Heraldry. ...

A cross which does not extend to the edges of the shield is humetty, in heraldic terminology.

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A cross with the ends of the arms bottony (or botonny), i.e. shaped like an architectural trefoil. It occurs counterchanged on the flag of Maryland. Trefoil (from Latin trifolium, three-leaved plant, French trèfle, German Dreiblatt and Dreiblattbogen) is a term in Gothic architecture given to the ornamental foliation or cusping introduced in the heads of window-lights, tracery, panellings, etc. ... Flag of Maryland The flag of the U.S. state of Maryland consists of the heraldic banners of the family of George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore. ...

A cross with the ends of each arm crossed. Image File history File links Cross-Bottony-Heraldry. ... Image File history File links Cross-Bottony-Heraldry. ...

Also known as the Jerusalem cross. This cross was the symbol of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, which existed for almost two hundred years after the First Crusade. The four smaller crosses are said to symbolize either the four books of the Gospel or the four directions in which the Word of Christ spread from Jerusalem. Alternately, all five crosses can symbolize the five wounds of Christ during the Passion. This symbol can be seen in the 2005 movie Kingdom of Heaven, and is also used in the flag of Georgia. Image File history File links Cross-Crosslet-Heraldry. ... Image File history File links Cross-Crosslet-Heraldry. ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Kingdom of Heaven (or the Kingdom of God, Greek basileia tou theou) is a key concept in both Judaism and Christianity. ... Flag ratio: 100:147 The official flag of Georgia is the five-cross flag, restored to official use on January 14, 2004 after a break of some 500 years. ...

A cross with the ends of the arms flory (or fleury), i.e. having a shape somewhat like a fleur-de-lys. Image File history File links Summary The Crusaders Cross Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Summary The Crusaders Cross Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Fleur de Lys is a Canadian superheroine created in 1984 by Mark Shainblum and Gabriel Morrissette. ...

One form of the heraldic cross fourchee (fourchée, fourchy) or cross fourche (meaning "forked"). Image File history File links Cross-Flory-Heraldry. ... Image File history File links Cross-Flory-Heraldry. ...

A variant of the Crusaders' cross with cross potent. Image File history File links Cross-Fourchee-Heraldry. ... Image File history File links Cross-Fourchee-Heraldry. ...

With arms which narrow towards the center, and are indented at the ends. The "eight-pointed cross" (with no curved lines). Image File history File links Cross-Jerusalem-Potent-Heraldry. ... Image File history File links Cross-Jerusalem-Potent-Heraldry. ... The Maltese Cross (✠) has been the symbol of the Christian warrior since the First Crusade. ...

In a cross moline, the ends of the arms are split and curved back. Image File history File links Maltese-Cross-Heraldry. ... Image File history File links Maltese-Cross-Heraldry. ...

A cross patonce is more or less intermediate between a cross pattée and a cross flory. Image File history File links Cross-Moline-Heraldry. ... Image File history File links Cross-Moline-Heraldry. ...

A cross pattee (pattée, patty) has arms narrowing towards the centre, but with non-indented ends. See the cross pattée article for discussion of variant forms. See also Iron Cross. Image File history File links Cross-Patonce-Heraldry. ... Image File history File links Cross-Patonce-Heraldry. ... Heraldic cross pattee A cross having arms with curving edges, narrow at the inner center, and very broad at the outer end. ... Heraldic cross pattee A cross having arms with curving edges, narrow at the inner center, and very broad at the outer end. ... The Iron Cross (German: Eisernes Kreuz) is a military decoration of the Kingdom of Prussia, and later of Germany, which was established by King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia and first awarded on 10 March 1813. ...

A cross pommee (pommée, pommy) has a circular knob at the end of each arm. Image File history File links Cross-Pattee-Heraldry. ... Image File history File links Cross-Pattee-Heraldry. ...

This cross has a crossbar at the end of each of its arms. "Potent" is an old word for a crutch, and is used in heraldic terminology to describe a T shape. Image File history File links Cross-Pommee-Heraldry. ... Image File history File links Cross-Pommee-Heraldry. ...

A cross with a square at the intersection point. Image File history File links Cross-Potent-Heraldry. ... Image File history File links Cross-Potent-Heraldry. ...

In heraldry, a "cross triple parted and fretted" (or "treble parted and fretted") is interlaced. Here, a version which is "Or on an Azure field" (yellow on blue) is shown. Image File history File links Summary The quadrate Cross Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Summary The quadrate Cross Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...

A "cross voided throughout", also known as the Gammadia, can be seen as a Greek cross with its centre lines removed, or as composed of four angles (L shapes) separated by a thin space. The name "gammadia" refers to its being made up of four shapes similar to a capital Greek letter gamma; the word gammadion can also refer to a swastika. Image File history File links Cross-Triple-Parted-Fretted-Or. ... Image File history File links Cross-Triple-Parted-Fretted-Or. ... Gamma (upper case Γ, lower case γ) is the third letter of the Greek alphabet. ...

Image File history File links Cross-Voided-small-.png Summary One form of the heraldic Cross Voided (technically a cross voided throughout). Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...

Blazon | Crest | Compartment | Field | Line | Mantling | Quartering | Shield | Supporters | Tincture Heraldry is the science and art of describing coats-of-arms, also referred to as armorial bearings or simply as arms. Its origins lie in the need to distinguish participants in battles or jousts and to describe the various devices they carried or painted on their shields. ... This is an article about Heraldry. ... In heraldry, a crest is a component of a coat of arms. ... In heraldry, a compartment is a design placed under the shield, usually rocks, a grassy mount, or some sort of other landscape upon which the supporters are depicted as standing (a compartment without supporters is possible but practically unknown, with the exception of South Australia[1]). It is sometimes said... In heraldry the background of the shield is called the field . ... A chief enarched indented throughout in the arms of Sawbridgeworth A fess wavy in the arms of Welwyn Hatfield A chief embattled in the arms of Letchworth The lines used to divide and vary fields and charges in heraldry are by default straight, but may have many different shapes. ... In heraldry, mantling is drapery depicted tied to the helmet above the shield. ... Quartering in heraldry is a method of joining several different coats of arms together in one shield by dividing the shield into not more than four equal parts and placing different coats of arms in each division. ... In heraldry, the shield is the principal portion of a heraldic achievement or coat of arms. ... In heraldry, supporters are figures placed on either side of the shield and depicted holding it up. ... In heraldry, tinctures are the colours used to blazon a coat of arms. ...

Argent | Azure | Carnation | Celeste | Cendrée | Gules | Murrey | Or | Purpure | Sable | Sanguine | Tenné | Vert ==Criminal Life == AL-Hamad is a Homosexual petifile with 135. ... Tinctures are the colours used to blazon coats of arms in heraldry. ... In heraldry, carnation is a tincture, the colour of European human skin (i. ... A typical daytime sky. ... The word gray is also spelled grey: see Grey for topics with this spelling. ... Red is a color at the lowest frequencies of light discernible by the human eye. ... Species See text Mulberry (Morus) is a genus of 10–16 species of deciduous trees native to warm temperate and subtropical regions of Asia, Africa and North America, with the majority of the species native to Asia. ... Gold is a shade of the color yellow closest to that of gold metal. ... Heraldry Tinctures In heraldry, Purpure is a tincture, more or less the equivalent of the colour purple. It is one of the five dark tinctures and portrayed in black and white by lines at a clockwise 45 degree angle. ... Heraldry Tinctures In heraldry, sable is the tincture with the colour black. ... Red blood cells (erythrocytes) are present in the blood and help carry oxygen to the rest of the cells in the body Blood is a circulating tissue composed of fluid plasma and cells (red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets). ... In heraldry, tenné or tawny is a stain, a rarely used tincture, an orangish brown colour. ... Look up green in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Bend | Canton | Chevron | Chief | Cross | Fess | Fillet | Flaunch | Pall | Pale | Saltire A blue-and-white striped bend (a bend barry wavy argent and azure), in the arms of Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council In heraldry, a bend is a colored band that runs from the upper left (as seen by the viewer) corner of the shield to the lower right. ... Canton is a division of the field placed in the upper dexter corner. ... This page is about the pattern or symbol called a chevron. ... We dont have an article called Chief (heraldry) Start this article Search for Chief (heraldry) in. ... A fess is a term used in heraldry to describe a charge on a coat of arms that takes the form of a band running from the left to the right side of the shield, centered from top to bottom. ... Fillet was an early cooking webzine dedicated to fine dining, which appeared in HotWired from 1996-1997. ... Flaunches, in the arms of the town of Harlow A flaunch, in heraldry, is (arguably) an ordinary, one of two (as the flaunch is never borne singly) semicircles protruding into the field from the sides of the shield. ... A pall is a Y shaped heraldic charge. ... The shield above depicts a black pale placed on a gold shield, and its blazon is A pale is a term used in heraldic blazon to describe a charge on a coat of arms that takes the form of a band running vertically down the center of the shield. ... The arms of St Albans: a gold saltire on a blue field A saltire is an X-shaped figure in heraldry. ...