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Argent, on a mount in
base an oak-tree fructed
all proper -- Wood
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oak
Alternate Term: Chêne
This tree very frequently finds a place in arms, especially in those in which the bearer’s name admits of a meaning connected with it. Sometimes the whole tree is borne, sometimes the branches, sometimes sprigs, slips, leaves, etc., sometimes the acorns, and more frequently the tree is fructed, i.e. with the acorns of a different tincture.
In one of the earliest rolls of arms the term kene occurs, which has been thought to be chêne, from the name of the bearer being Orstede. In the same Roll fourché au kanee, in the arms borne by Lexington, has been supposed to be forked like an oak branch.
“Argent, on a mount an oak-tree all proper” – Forest.
“Argent, on a mount in base an oak-tree fructed all proper” – Wood, Devon.
Rouland de Okstede, “ov ung Kene de goules” – Roll, temp. Hen. III.
“Argent, a three masted ship under sail in sea proper between three oak-trees eradicated and fructed of the last” – Daroch.
“Argent, a greyhound courant gules in front of an oak-tre on a mount vert” – Lambert, Norfolk,
“Argent, the trunk of an oak-tree sprouting afresh sable” – Here.
“Argent, out of a well gules an oak-tree growing vert” – Wellwood, co. Fife.
“Argent, a horse passant gules holding in the mouth an oak sprig vert, acorns or” – Ashton.
“Azure, on a cross or an oaken ship vert” – Brayne.
“Argent, a lion passant gules; on a chief three oak sprigs bearing acorns proper” – Johnson.
“Argent, a chevron engrailed sable between three oak leaves vert” – Smithson.
“Argent, three oak leaves in pale all proper” – Milford, co. Devon.
“Argent, a bend, and in the sinister chief an oak leaf Azure” – Cox, co. Salop.
“Or, semy of oak leaves vert a lion rampant Azure; on a canton gules a buglehorn stringed of the first” – Patch, Tiverton, co. Devon.
“Argent, an oak branch with three (oak) apples proper” – Applock.
“Argent, a sinister hand in base issuing out of a cloud fessways, holding an oaken baton paleways proper, with a branch sprouting out at the top thereof surmounted of a bend engrailed gules” – Aikman, Carnie.
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Alternate Term: Eight Foil
A double quartrefoil: a leaf of eight points. When used as a difference it denotes the eighth son.
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on chief
When the chief is charged with anything.
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ahn'dee
(French.) Wavy; curved and recurved like waves. (See also Unde.)
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An imaginary animal having the head and wings of a griffin or eagle, a short tail like that of a camel and the body of a lion. The Opinicus is sometimes borne without wings.
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Or
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Or is represented as
a semee of small dot
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Alternate Terms: Gold, Sol, Topaz, Yellow
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Gold. Can be depicted as yellow or gold. In engraving it is denoted by small dots or points spread all over the bearing or field.
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"(Gold is) usually blazoned as 'Or', but in English heraldry it is also often blazoned as 'gold'. Bartolo di Sasso Ferrato describes gold as a nobler colour than the others, representing the light of the sun, and says that on one is allowed to bear gold in his arms except prince. Honoré Bonet, writing some thirty years later, between 1382 and 1387, follows Bartolo and declares that 'the colour gold is the noblest in the work, because gold, of its nature, is bright and shining and full of virtue, and so comforting that the doctors give it as a sovereign cordial to the man who is sick unto death'. He too adds that 'the ancient laws ordained that no one but a prince should bear this colour'. John de Bado Aureo, whose Tractatus de Armis was written in the late fourteenth century, puts gold third, but Sicily Herald puts it first and equates it with the sun and the precious stone topaz, and the Sunday amount the days of the week. He says that its properties are those of the age of adolescence and faith, and that it corresponds to the virtues of richness and noblesse. Nicholas Upton, who wrote the De Studio Miliari in 1446, follows Sicily Herald while Gerald Legh, writing in 1562, devotes some six pages to a discussion on gold." from Heraldic Imagination, The, by Rodney Dennys, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., New York, 1975
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"Azure, an eagle rising Or, the sun in dexter chief." Tennyson.
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Sol is a term implying Or (gold) in blazoning the arms of sovereign princes. Using the planets in blazoning the arms of emperors, kings and princes arose in the sixteenth century through the foolish fancy of some Heraldic writers, as did the use of precious stones for the arms of peers.
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an orange
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The color of the colour orange in heraldry is known as Tenne.
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The name of a roundel that is tenne.
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A globe encircled, bearing a cross; a mound.
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This is the most illustrious order of British knighthood. It was instituted at Windsor by Edward III in 1348. It consists of the sovereign and 25 companions, of whom the Prince of Wales is always one. In more recent times foreign princes have been admitted. The knights place the initials “K. G.” after their names, which takes precedence of all other titles except those of royalty.
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Order of the Knights Templar
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Cross of the Order of
the Knights Templar
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or"der of the knights tem"plar
One of a religious and military order first established at Jerusalem, in the early part of the 12th century, for the protection of pilgrims and of the Holy Sepulcher. These knights Templars, or knights of the Temple, were so named because they occupied an apartment of the palace of Bladwin II. in Jerusalem, near the Temple.
Note: The order was first limited in numbers, and its members were bound by vows of chastity and poverty. After the conquest of Palestine by the Saracens, the Templars spread over Europe, and, by reason of their reputation for valor and piety, they were enriched by numerous donations of money and lands. The extravagances and vices of the later Templars, however, finally led to the suppression of the order by the Council of Vienne in 1312.
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The basic geometrical charged used in arms, usually divided into the (honourable) ordinaries and the subordinaries. An ordinary of arms is a collection of arms arranged according to the charges therein.
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One of the simplest and commonest charges in heraldry, such as the bend and the cross.
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A charge or bearing of simple form. The ordinaries, or, as they are called by the majority of Heraldic writers, honorable ordinaries, are nine in number as follows:
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The honorable ordinaries are said to represent the clamps or fastenings of the shield, becoming ornamental from painting or gilding. Each has one or more diminutives.
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Sable, an orle argen
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ohrl
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The wreath or chaplet surmounting or encircling the helmet of a knight and bearing the crest.
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The orle is an internal bordure, of the form of the device, but it does not touch the edge of the device. The diminutive is the tressure, generally found doubled.
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One of the subordinaries; in the form of a fillet, within the border, but some distance from it.
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"His arms were augmented with an orle of lion's paws." Fuller: Worthies, i, 129.
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out of
Signifies rising from, as “out of a ducal coronet an eagle.”
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Alternate Term: Surtout
Said of a charge placed over several other charges.
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Open; applied to the wings of birds.
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Applied to the wings of a bird, etc., when spread open on each side of its head , as if taking flight.
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an owl gardant
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owl
Owls are always depicted as full-faced.
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