Today is June 10, 2025, and once again it is time to celebrate International Heraldry Day!
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Others have probably said it better than I could:
International Heraldry Day focuses on one day each year when heraldry in all its forms is celebrated worldwide. Regardless of jurisdiction, geographic area, customs, favored styles and favored period, the community focuses on wider enjoyment of heraldry. The goal of the organizers is that eventually all heraldry enthusiasts will acknowledge the event in the years to come. The celebration was started in 2013 within the International Association of Amateur Heralds (IAAH). Tomasz Steifer (Poland), a Fellow of the IAAH described the effort:
“….We propose that this international day of heraldry at 10 June. On that day, in the year 1128, in Rouen was knighted, by his future father in law, Henry I Beauclerc, Godfrey Plantagenet. Suspended during the ceremony on the neck of [the] young knight [a] shield [of] blue decorated [with] six golden lions, [which] is recognized by most of the heralds, for the first time in history, [as a] fully formed coat of arms.”
Are we enthusiastic about this annual celebration of all things heraldic?
Why, yes. Yes, we are.
Though maybe not quite as much as some: "It’s like lions and unicorns and sinisters and rampants and shit and we’re like all over the slogans in Elvish and that yeah."
Anyway, Happy International Heraldry Day to you and yours!
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