Ornaments external of the ecu

With

Abbot

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Joined

The weapons can be coupled on badges longilignes: stick of marshal, sceptre, hand of justice, standard, cross of procession, stick of abbot, pastoral stick…

Admiral

In France, the admirals carry a damaged money helmet of face and with nine bars, with the parts of the mézail (mobile visor), the edge and the heads of gold rivets. The general of the galères carries out of stake behind the ecu gold an anchor to three arms, the fleurdelized trabe. The ecu of the admirals is posed on two gold anchors in saltire, the fleurdelized trabes. The vice-admiral carries money an anchor out of stake, the fleurdelized trabe.

Archbishop

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B

Streamer

Small roll of material fixed at a pole. Ribbon on which figure a war currency or cry. Synonym of listel.

Banneret

Says itself of a flight, when it is made up not by wings, but by small banners.

Banner

See flag. Flag fixed at a pole. The banner can carry one ecu in banner, i.e. of square form.

Baron

In France, the barons have one ecu surmounted of a damaged money helmet of three quarter, with five bars. Do the barons of empire carry a frank sinistral money district in charge of a figure of mouths (or mouths with a money figure?), black a velvet hat, turned up of countervair, with money carry-brush, surmounted by three feathers of money, and four lambrequins of money.

C

Cardinal

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Cartridge

Tally, or volutes, surrounding the ecu sometimes, following the imagination of the artist.

Helmet

The heraldic part appearing in weapons is indicated by heaume. The external ornament is indifferently indicated by helmet or heaume.

The helmet is a hairstyle which belongs to the ornaments external of the blazon. The helmet can be surmounted of a crown, summoned of a Cimier, and be decorated with Lambrequin S.

The helmets are damaged (i.e. directed) of face, three quarter or profile, and them Vantaille (grid) more or less has bars according to the row of the owner.

The heraldists of the 17th century tried to standardize the drawing of the helmet according to the title, (see gentleman, baron,…) but the correspondence always rather theoretical and was little scrupulously respected.

Hat

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Knight banneret

In the heraldic one of empire, the knights carry a badge on a honourable part of mouths: star for the legionary of the Legion of honor, ring if not.

Cimier

Ornament which trains the upper part of a helmet. Appear posed on the stamp of the helmet which surmounts the ecu of the armorial bearings. When a figure of the weapons lends itself to it, it is frequently taken again by the cimier.

The helmet at pointed top can be decorated with a plume. The helmet at flat top can be decorated in a more elaborate way, by heads and collars of animals (unicorn), or busts or members issuant, wings (wing or flight), horns, small banners,…

Initially, the cimier has a military function: he is used to grow the silhouette of his carrier for better impressing his adversary. He becomes then an ornament of parade, intended to strike imaginations of the spectators before the entry in tournament, but not to resist the test. As a military part, the cimier was abandoned after the 16th century, but survived like decorative element of the armorial bearings.

Hairstyle

External ornament which surmounts the ecu, and can take various forms: helmet and its cimier, crown, hat, hats (for the first empire), tiara (for the pope).

Collar

Fact part of the ornaments external of the blazon. The collar is represented surrounding the blazon, the cross of the order during downwards. The collars of order represent the order whose the holder of the armorial bearings is member. One ecu is coupled collar: “Of azure coupled lime pit of the collar of Saint Michel”.

Cordelière

The cordelière is a knotty cord surrounding the ecu. The cordelières are characterized by their enamel and the number of bunches, or nipples, which are always a triangular number (one, three, six, ten or fifteen). The bunches are repeated on each side, and the number of bunches indicated in the blazon can refer to this full number.

It is the ornament external of the ecu of the ecclesiastics to see: § Catholic church

Count

In France, the counts and Viscounts carry a helmet of money, damaged of three quarter, with seven bars. The counts of empire carry a frank gold district in charge of a figure of azure (or azure in charge of a gold figure), black a velvet hat, turned up of counterermine, with carry-brush gold and money, surmounted by five feathers of money and four lambrequins, two of gold and two of money. The counts senators have a coat of azure, doubled white fur

Constable

The constable carries a helmet of officer, and carries out of stake two high swords, held by hands leaving a cloud in terrace.

Cord

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Crown

The crown presents various forms, varying the number of florets, according to the hierarchy peerage-book. However, the coding of the crowns remained artificial and strictly observed forever. The piece of furniture used on a blazon is stylized normally much more.

Mural crown

Crown made of turns and walls, generally used to mean the autonomy of a free city.

According to Veyrin-Forrer: “ This use does not appear to go up higher than Napoleon, which granted these crowns to the towns of first and second order ”.
According to O. Neubecker, the mural crown became the heraldic badge of the autonomous cities since the 18th century. (Large book of Heraldic, p.246)

The mural crown, in France, comprises in theory a crênelé wall and three turns, a central tower and two others at the ends of the wall. The turns can be open. The unit is generally built. The color can be of gold or money.

The number of revolutions is usually of three for the simple communes, four for the chief towns of department, five for the capital. They can be pavillonnées or reproduce certain defenses of local castles. One sees sometimes naval crowns, to see aviales (wings of plane).

On the other hand the crowns representing the hereditary and family nobility cannot be carried.

Hat

Hairstyle belonging to the external ornaments, appearing a hat on broad board, generally reserved in the ecclesiastics. It is accompanied by a cordelière, whose color and number of nodes (bunches, also called nipples, or fiocchi) reflect the row of the ecclesiastic. See: cordelière, abbot, bishop, archbishop, cardinal .

Chain

Rosary, or chain, is the heraldic sign of the monks. The abbesses stamp their weapons of them. The knights profès of the Ordre of Malta surround their ecu, posed on the Maltese cross, of a money chain whose cross reproduces that of Malta.

Keys

The keys are a heraldic stamp of the Roman Pontife, with the tiara.

The keys indicate the capacity to bind and untie granted by the Christ with Pierre and his successors.

Posed in saltire, one is of gold, the other of money. The gold key, which goes from dextral to sinistral, means of being able which extends to the sky; the money key symbolizes the capacity on the faithful ones of the ground. They are linked by a cord of mouths, in sign of the union of the two capacities. The handles are in bottom, because they are in the hand of the Pape; the webs are in top, because the capacity to bind and untie engages the Sky. The webs are hollow in the shape of cross to recall that the pope receives his capacities by the death of Christ.

Cord

It is one of the ornaments external of the ecu of the ecclesiastics (with the hat). The cord is in general represented with varied interlacings, generally of the nodes into eight. It ends in bunches of which the number corresponds to the dignity of the owner of the weapons. (cf Cordelière

Crowns and decorations

The ecclesiastics can make use of the external ornaments corresponding to the title attached to their seat, their abbey or their chapter.

They can also carry the badges of the chivalrous orders the such Ordre of Malta or the Ordre of the Holy Sepulchre. Sometimes, according to their row of apparenance, they carry the crosses of these kinds inside the ecu, as a chief, or to the 1 and 4 of one quartered.

Cross of procession

Heraldic sign of the episcopal order. It is the single sign which only the bishops have the right to carry.

Posed out of stake behind the ecu, it is with a cross-piece for the bishop S and with double cross-piece for the Archevêque S, the primacies and the patriarchs.

The cardinal which did not receive the episcopal dedication are not useful about it, except when they are legates of the Pape.

Stick

With the miter, the stick is one of the first pontifical badges that the heraldry adopted like marks dignity. Symbol of Good Pasteur, it indicates the jurisdiction.

The abbots and all the prelates lower than the bishops hang to the stick a veil ( velum or panisellus or sudarium ) on the basis of the button, because originally they did not have the use of the gloves in the pontifical liturgy. This veil was used to hold the stick to avoid touching it with moist hands.

The stick is generally represented opened with dextral. In France, the stick of the bishop S for several centuries had been turned towards the outside of the ecu, whereas that of the Abbé S should be turned about the middle, meaning that their jurisdiction is exerted only inside their monastery.

Its heraldic use was interdict on the episcopal weapons by the sive Instruction Ut requests March 31st 1969

Senior

Open seniors, or vicars, and the minor and local superiors of the religious congregations carry a hat of sand accompanied by a cordelière with two bunches of very the . These two bunches can hang of a median node and fall one beside different, or can be laid out one above the other.

Ecclesiastic

The ecclesiastical badges are generally the hat and the cordelière. The color of the hat generally varies with that of the cordelière, according to the nature of the load. The number of bunches is all the more large as dignity is important. The ecclesiastics who have a pastoral load have moreover the ecu joined on a badge with pole: bumblebee, stick, cross of procession. In the heraldic one of empire, the ecclesiastics superimpose the imperial attributes (hat and plume) and ecclesiastics (hat, cord and badge).

Temporal sword

Posed out of stake behind the ecu or saltire with the stick, the temporal sword, of money, represented the civil jurisdiction before the secularization of the ecclesiastical principalities. It symbolized the droitde the sword or of blood, the high jurisdiction, granted to the prelates in their territories by the temporal sovereign.

Bishop

The bishops have a hat of sinople accompanied by a cordelière with six of the same bunches . The ecu is posed on a cross of procession to a cross-piece.

Whereas their use was very widespread in the past, the miter and of the stick do not stamp any more that very seldom, nowadays, the episcopal weapons, their heraldic use having been prohibited on these weapons by the sive Instruction Ut requests March 31st 1969

Miter

The miter is the badge of the bishops and the abbots or certain privileged chapters.

It is a hairstyle with two points (which appear confused in the front views), and two pennons or bands, which fall down on the shoulders. The two points and the two pennons mean the science of the two Wills which the pontiff must have.

Sometimes it appears on the blazon itself: Of azure to a money miter, accompanied by three flowers of gold lily, which is of Saintonge . Azure with a gold miter: appears in the weapons of Tolède. Money with a miter and a stick of gold : appears in the weapons of Andorra (évêché of Urgel).

Its heraldic use was interdict on the episcopal weapons by the sive Instruction Ut requests March 31st 1969

Pallium

Liturgical ornament of the Pope then Archbishop S subways and sometimes even attached to some évêchés, the Pallium is a circular decorated white wool band of black crosses.

It stamps the weapons of the metropolitan archbishops, posed in general at a peak of the ecu, sometimes summoning it.

Pope

The ecu is stamped symbols of papal dignity: the tiara with three crowns and keys. The tiara is placed at the top of the ecu. The keys, posed in saltire, under the tiara, above or behind the ecu, are dependant whole by a cord of mouths. That in band is of gold and that out of money bar, Benoît XVI gave up this use by replacing the tiara by a miter, whose decoration points out the three crowns of the tiara, and by adding pallium.

One sees sometimes the stamped papal weapons of a cross with triple crosses, out of stake behind the ecu. It is there a pure imagination of the artists, the cross not being a heraldic stamp of the pope

The pontifical badges, without the ecu, are employed officially by the Roman congregations, the offices and the courts of the Roman Curie, by the Nonciature S and the apostolic delegations and finally by the pontifical institutes of the whole world.

The tiara and the keys were also used for the formation of the weapons of the Church and the Papal States.

The tiara without the keys - which are replaced by the cross patriarchale with double cross-piece and the stick is also the heraldic stamp of the Patriarche of Lisbon since the concession of the privilege granted by the pope Clément XII.

Patriarch

The patriarchs which are not cardinals stamp their weapons of the cross with double cross-piece, and the hat of sinople accompanied by a cordelière with fifteen of the same bunches , like the primacies. The cord and the bunches are sometimes represented intermingled with gold wire.

House

Also called sunshade or gonfalon, the pontifical house is a kind of parasol with opened half, with the papal colors mouths and gold. ( to see: pontifical House )

The house is the heraldic stamp of the basilicas.

Accompanied by the keys of Pierre saint, it is the emblem of the Catholic church, in particular in its temporal power, of the Collège of the cardinals, the apostolic Chambre, the seminars and institutes pontifical, and also of the the Holy See when this one is vacant (while representing fall it from Pierre, protected by the Saint-Pierre basilica from Rome).

During the vacancy of the Roman Seat, the cardinal Camerlingue stamps its weapons of them.

Prelates

Chaplain of His holiness

The prelates of honor stamp their armorial bearings of a hat of sand of which, on each side, a cord with six bunches of crimson hangs.

Prelate of honor of His Holiness

The prelates of honor stamp their armorial bearings of a hat of crimson of which, on each side, a cord with six of the same bunches hangs .

Prelates “ di fiocchetto ”

The prelates known as di fiocchetto stamp of a hat of crimson of which each side a cord of mouths with ten of the same bunches hangs out of four rows .

These high prelates of the pontifical court were vice-camerlingue Holy Roman Church, the general listener and the general treasurer of the apostolic Room and the Majordomo of Its Holiness.

Apostolic Pronotaire

The apostolic pronotaires “of number participantium” and the supernumerary apostolic protonotaires stamp of a hat of crimson of which hang each side of the cords of mouths with six of the same bunches , without the episcopal cross nor pontifical badges (miter and stick).

The protonotaires apostolic fees or holders stamp of a hat of sand of which hang each side of the sand cords with six of the same bunches . The general vicars and capitulary vicars ( today administrators diocesans ) hold the privileges of the titular protonotaires lasting munere (for the duration of their load).

Priest

All the priests who do not have a durable load can stamp their weapons of a hat of sand, with a cordelière with an of the same bunch, on each side .

Prior

The priors carry a hat of sand accompanied by a cordelière with two bunches of very the . A bumblebee passed out of stake behind the ecu.

Primacy

The primacy who is not cardinal stamps his weapons, like the Archevêque, of the cross with two cross-pieces, and the hat of sinople with the cordelière fifteen bunches of very the , like the patriarchs. The cord and the bunches are sometimes represented intermingled with gold wire.

Major superior

The major superiors of the clerical religious congregations use of the sign of heraldic dignity specific to the prelates, the hat of sand accompanied by a cordelière, on each side, with six bunches of very the .

Minor superior

The minor and local superiors of the religious congregations carry a hat of sand accompanied by a cordelière with two bunches of very the . These two bunches can hang of a median node and fall one beside different, or can be laid out one above the other.

Holding

The official armorial bearings of the prelates should not have holding.

Tiara

The Tiare is a extra-liturgical hairstyle of the pope, who carried it at the time of great solemnities and especially of the processions. It is a money hairstyle, in the ovoid shape of cone, surrounded by three gold crowns, whose two pennons of mouths hang. In the past, it was called regnum as the crown of the emperors and the kings. With the addition of the second crown by Boniface VIII then third by Benoit XI, it took the name of triregnum .

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