January 2023 – Links to Useful Heraldic Resources

Heraldic Titles from the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Overview

http://medievalscotland.org/jes/HeraldicTitlesSCA/index.shtml By Juliana de Luna, 2008-2011

Building Heraldic Community

https://erminespot.wordpress.com/blog/philosophy-and-opinion/building-heraldic-community/ By Marie de Blois, circa 2011, with updates.

SENA Armory Conflict Quick Reference

https://erminespot.wordpress.com/blog/armory/armory-conflict-quick-ref/ By Marie de Blois. Circa 2013.

The Refrigerator Test

http://blog.heraldicart.org/2021/04/the-refrigerator-test/

An Introduction to the Tinctures

http://blog.heraldicart.org/2021/02/an-introduction-to-the-tinctures/

Charges Which Can Appear To Be An Armorial Display in a Fieldless Badge

http://blog.heraldicart.org/2020/07/independent-forms-of-armorial-display/

Unusual Weights for the O&A Complex Search

http://blog.heraldicart.org/2020/08/unusual-weights-for-the-oanda-complex-search/ By Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin, 2020.

Identifying Charge Groups

http://blog.heraldicart.org/2020/05/identifying-charge-groups/

East Kingdom Herald’s Handbook

https://herald.eastkingdom.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Brigantia-Handbook.pdf 2015 Edition, based on versions in 2013 and 2004.

How to Be a Local Herald

https://erminespot.wordpress.com/blog/philosophy-and-opinion/how-to-be-a-local-herald/ By Marie de Blois, 2013.

The Role of a Branch Herald

http://blog.heraldicart.org/2019/11/the-role-of-a-branch-herald/ By Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin, 2019. Written for heralds in the East Kingdom.

Timeline of the Heraldic Submission Process

http://blog.heraldicart.org/2018/02/heraldic-submission-process/

http://blog.heraldicart.org/2016/10/populace-badges/ Topics: Restrictions on Display of Branch Arms Populace Badges As A Sign Of Association Other Uses Of Populace Badges Design Of Populace Badges Confusion And Clarification By Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin, 2016.

Intellectual Property Rights In Branch Armory

http://blog.heraldicart.org/2017/06/intellectual-property-rights-in-branch-armory/ By Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin, 2017. Discusses copyright and trademark/service mark protection.

Catalog of Individually Attested Pattern Submissions

http://blog.heraldicart.org/catalog-of-iap-submissions/ By Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin. Last updated in 2020.

Every Distinct Tincture, Fur, and Field Treatment

http://blog.heraldicart.org/2017/08/every-tincture-fur-and-field-treatment/ By Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin, 2017

Ordinaries, Divisions & Arrangements

http://blog.heraldicart.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Commonly-Confused-Terms.pdf By Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin, 2018. Based on Yehuda’s Guide to Commonly Confused Heraldic Terms. http://blog.heraldicart.org/2018/01/ordinaries-and-divisions-and-arrangements-oh-my/Blog post

Calontir New Herald’s Handbook

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TIoWXqXfm8ReSJy_8YTNzHpThOQGOy0o/view First Edition, circa 2018

Calontir Herald’s Handbook

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kq1p8xeQV6kgc-IExMxJFOqSml-zuzbB/view Fourth Edition, 2015.

Calontir Herald’s Companion

https://www.calontir.org/heralds/heralds-handbook-companion/ Numerous articles by multiple authors, many sourced from previous versions of the kingdom heraldic handbook. Circa 2016.

Calontir Herald’s Handbook

http://www.modaruniversity.org/heraldry/Calontir-Heralds-Handbook-3rd-edition.pdf Third Edition, 2014

Basic Conflict Checking – Armory

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1INZOhuFDAKEsO_Gmzmn65H_tNbNuNx5J/view By Modar Neznanich, circa 2015.

Use and Display of Branch (Group) Arms

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16yeRB06vr5_sdm-R5o5vZrYXGyfMR0qw/view By Modar Neznanich.

Argent Snail’s Armory Insta-Boing Check List

https://heraldry.sca.org/armory/boing.html By Jaelle of Armida, 1993.

“But I don’t have any books!” Commenting without Sources

http://antirheralds.org/document/view/reference/commenting-no-sources by Juliana de Luna

Heraldic Titles

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rX-N8DuIGwYfv9cKasOI3LvhDsy4gnre/view By Modar Neznanich. This is an older document and may be out of date.

Common and Uncommon Armorial Elements

http://blog.heraldicart.org/2018/05/common-and-uncommon-charges/ By Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin, 2018.

A Catalogue Of Period Devices

http://blog.heraldicart.org/2020/02/a-catalogue-of-period-devices/ By William Castille of Lochac, 2004. Over seventy pages of armorial line art, including over twelve hundred designs suitable for registration in the Society. (It also includes seventy five designs which are unregistrable, along with explanations for the rules they violate — typically marshaling, pretense, and reserved or restricted charges.) By reproducing period arms using …

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SENA: The Standards for Evaluation of Names and Armory

https://heraldry.sca.org/sena.html

An Armory Conflict Checklist

http://blog.heraldicart.org/2021/05/a-revised-armory-conflict-checking-checklist/ With links to relevant sections of SENA. By Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.

Archive of Laurel Letters

https://heraldry.sca.org/loar/

Use Google to Search LoARs

https://morsulus.org

American Heraldry Society: Guidelines for Heraldic Practice in the United States

https://www.americanheraldry.org/education-resources/guidelines-for-heraldic-practice/

The Public Register of Arms, Flags, and Badges of Canada

https://www.gg.ca/en/heraldry/public-register

Why You Can’t Register Marshalled Armory

http://blog.heraldicart.org/2022/12/on-the-registration-of-marshalled-armory/ By Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin

One Herald’s Take on the Issue of Marshalling

https://erminespot.wordpress.com/2021/02/14/on-the-issue-of-marshalling/ By Marie de Blois

Period Armorials Online

http://caerlaverockroll.com/period-armorials-online/ Links to over 500 online digitized period sources with illustrations of armory. Categorized by region. By Iago ab Adam.

Heraldic Flag Design

http://herald.poore-house.com/display/heraldic-flags/standards/Standards and Guidons http://herald.poore-house.com/display/heraldic-flags/banners/Banners http://herald.poore-house.com/display/heraldic-flags/pennons/Pennons http://herald.poore-house.com/display/heraldic-flags/gonfalons/Gonfalons