This Beautiful custom cut solid 1" Mahogany wood frame depicts the full color rendition...
This Beautiful custom cut solid 1" Mahogany wood frame depicts the full color rendition of the earliest Coat of Arms, Family Crest as well as the Surname History and Certificate of Authenticity. The Golden tones on this wood frame highlight the coat of arms which is protected by acrylic eliminating the risk of shattered glass in shipment and a lighter-weight frame essential for hanging this piece in your home. Ready to display proudly on your entrance way, family room oe hallway, this frame will be the center of attention of relatives and friends alike. A family heirloom for generations!
A coat of arms is in its originally European tradition, a design belonging to a particular person (or group of people) and used by him or her in a wide variety of ways. Unlike seals and emblems, coats of arms have a formal description, that is expessed as a blazon.
Coats of arms have their origins in the designs used by medieval knights to make their armour and shield stand out in battle or tournaments and enable quick recognition by allies or spectators. The designs were used to decorate clothing worn over the knight's armour, from which we derive the term coat of arms. In addition to being painted on the shield, elements of a knight's coat of arms were used to decorate the helmet crest, pavilion, and banners used by knights.
In some heraldic traditions (such as the Scottish and the English), an individual (rather than a family) possesses a coat of arms. In those traditions, coats of arms were passed from father to son as legal property, and were not used by more than a single individual at the same time (other than the eldest son and his eldest son both of whom would differentiate with a label). Other children in these families would only use a form of their father's arms that were differenced with a change to a colour or addition of a distinguishing charge once they obtained specific approval. In Scotland the Lord Lyon has criminal jurisdiction to enforce the laws of arms. In England use of arms is a matter of civil law. Many other traditions are less restrictive — allowing, for example, all members of a family or dynastic house to use the same arms or may reserve one or more elements to the Head of the House.
Because of their importance as legal property, the use of arms as a distinguishing mark has necessitated their strict regulation (although today only a few countries continue in this); this has been carried out by heralds and the study of coats of arms is called "heraldry."
Today, the term "coat of arms" or "arms" is frequently applied in two different ways. In some uses, it may indicate a full achievement of arms or heraldic achievement, which includes a variety of elements — usually a crest sitting atop a helmet, itself sitting on a shield; other common elements include supporters holding up the shield and a motto beneath. Other times, "coat of arms" or "arms" is used to refer simply to the escutcheon (i.e. the shield itself), or to one of several designs that may be combined in one shield. (Note that the crest is one specific part of a heraldic achievement and that "crest of arms" is a misnomer.) The "coat of arms" frequently were adorned with a device - a motto, emblem, or other mark used by a Knight-errant to distinguish himself from others. If a motto affixed to the arms, it usually had some punning allusion to his name. A device differed from a badge or cognizance primarily because as it was a personal distinction, and not a badge borne by members of the same house successively.
The Japanese equivalent, called kamon (often abbreviated "mon"), are family badges which often date back to the seventh century, and are still actively used in Japan today.
At a national level, "coats of arms" were generally retained by those states with constitutional continuity of more than a few centuries, including constitutional monarchies like Denmark as well as old republics like San Marino and Switzerland. However, today, nearly every nation in every part of the world has its own "coat of arms", in many cases emblems that do not fully conform with European heraldric traditions. Since 1989, some of the ex-Communist states, such as Romania, have resumed their former arms, often with only the symbols of monarchy removed.
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