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  • The United States of America: The search for a national coat of arms
  • The Use of Computers in Heraldry
  • The Use of Heraldry in a Non-Heraldic Culture
  • The Westford Knight

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  • Blog de Armoria
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  • Cheshire Heraldry Web Journal
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  • Dibujo Heráldico
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  • Heraldic Jewelry - Blog
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  • Heraldry Online Blog
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  • Heráldica en la Argentina
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  • History of Heralds - workshop and book project
    2 years ago
  • Héraldie
    1 year ago
  • Héraldique européenne... le blog
    3 years ago
  • IDTG
    4 years ago
  • La langue du blason
    4 months ago
  • Mistholme
    4 weeks ago
  • Mysteries Solved & Unsolved - Medieval Badges
    5 months ago
  • México Heráldico
    3 years ago
  • Onward
    3 years ago
  • Pro Heraldica
    3 days ago
  • The Oxbridge Pursuivant
    5 weeks ago
  • The Voice of Vexillology, Flags & Heraldry
    12 hours ago
  • Tiempos de Historia
    5 months ago
  • Tout sur l'héraldique
    3 months ago

Websites of Heraldic Interest

  • "Heraldry Revived" by Oswald Barron (1902)
  • "The beginnings of heraldry in the Civil War" by Col. Ralph R. Burr
  • 15th Century English Patents of Arms
  • A Beginner's Guide to Heraldry
  • A Plea for American Heraldry (1868)
  • Alphabetic List of Heraldic Terms
  • Araldica On Line (links to Italian heraldry sites)
  • AraldicaCivica
  • Araldika Malta
  • Armorial Gold's Heraldry Dictionary
  • Arms of Danish Noble Families (in Danish)
  • Belarusian Gentry's Coats of Arms
  • Biblioteca Heráldica (in Spanish)
  • British Brass Rubbings
  • Coat of Arms Visual Designer
  • Committee on Heraldry of the NEHGS
  • Computational Heraldry
  • De Gouden Leeuw van Nassau
  • De Wapens van de Leden van het Amsterdamse Chirurgijnsgilde
  • Early American Bookplates (many heraldic)
  • Fifteenth Century English Patents of Arms
  • Funerary Procession of Sir Philip Sidney 1587
  • Great Seals of State (England)
  • Guild of Heraldic Artists (Russian)
  • Heraldic Science Héraldique
  • Heraldica
  • Heraldik - die Welt der Wappen
  • Heraldiker Stellen Sich Vor
  • Heraldikk og flagg / Heraldry and flags
  • Héraldique européenne
  • Heraldry (by Brian Timms)
  • Heraldry in America
  • Heraldry of the Church
  • Heralds Visitations
  • Heralds Visitations and the College of Arms
  • History and Art in the coats of arms of the Popes
  • International Heraldry and Heralds
  • King René's Tournament Book
  • Knights of the Garter Under Henry VIII
  • Kunst und Kultur der Wappen
  • L'Armorial des villes et des villages de France
  • Lithuanian Heraldry Commission
  • Matricula Armorum
  • Modern Armorial Bookplates
  • Nova Heroldia (in Polish)
  • Pimbley's Dictionary of Heraldry
  • Pratt Institute Library - Ex Libris Collection
  • Puncher Heraldry Program
  • Russian Heraldry As It Is
  • Seb Nelson's Heraldry Articles
  • The beginnings of heraldry in the [American] Civil War
  • The Canadian Heraldic Dictionary
  • The Cyber Journal of Heraldic Bookplates
  • The Edward IV Roll
  • The Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland 1672-1907
  • The Public Register of Arms, Flags and Badges of Canada
  • The Ridgeley Family Coat of Arms

Heraldic Artists' Websites

  • Alexander Kurov
  • Antonio Salmerón Cabañas
  • Baz Manning
  • Benoit Behydezell
  • Carl Anders Breitholtz
  • David Linstead
  • David Truzzi-Franconi
  • Ioannis P. Vlazakis
  • Laurent Granier
  • Ljubodrag Grujic
  • Marco Foppoli
  • Marie Lynskey
  • Neil Bromley
  • Patrick Damiaens
  • Petr Tybitancl
  • Quentin Peacock
  • Robert Grey
  • Robert S. Bengry
  • Ronny Andersen
  • Sally Mangum
  • Sam Stoneman
  • Society of Heraldic Arts
  • Srechko Nikitovich
  • Steve Cowan
  • T. Sarros
  • Tania Crossingham
  • Tom Meek
  • Tomasz Steifer
  • Tudor-Radu Tiron

Some Good On-Line Armorials and Ordinaries

  • A Magyar Országos Levéltár adatbázisai (Hungarian arms)
  • A Roll of Early American Arms
  • Alexander Nisbet's Heraldic Plates originally intended for his "System of Heraldry"
  • An Armorial of Famous Musicians
  • An Ordinary of Arms (Scotland) (1893)
  • Arkistolaitos Arkivverket (Finnish heraldry with search feature)
  • ARMMA: ARmorial Monumental du Moyen-Âge
  • Armorial "Le Breton"
  • Armorial Brasileiro
  • Armorial d'Hozier (with links to images)
  • Armorial de Gilles Le Bouvier
  • Armorial du Saint-Empire (Armorial of the Holy Roman Empire)
  • Armorial Families, Vol. 1 (A.C. Fox-Davies)
  • Armorial Families, Vol. 2 (A.C. Fox-Davies)
  • Armorial Général (Rietstap)
  • Armorial Général by Rietstap
  • Armorial Général de France (d'Hozier) (1696)
  • Armorial Wijnbergen (modern depictions of the arms)
  • Arms of the Popes (in Russian)
  • Basel Land Cantonal Archives: Family Coats of Arms
  • Beispiele aus Conrad Grünenberg's Wappenbuch
  • Belarusian Nobility Coats of Arms
  • Blasonario Piemontese
  • British Coats of Arms
  • Ceramelli Papiani (Tuscan Family Coats of Arms)
  • Civic Heraldry of England and Wales
  • Coats of Arms and Emblems of Rajput Provinces of India
  • Coats of Arms from Ireland and around the World
  • Coats of Arms of Families of France
  • Comune di Siena
  • Conseil Français d'Héraldique
  • Crozier's General Armory
  • Das Sächsische Stammbuch (1546)
  • De Inscriptiones van Aernout van Buchel
  • De Monumenta van Aernout van Buchel
  • Dictionary of British Arms: Medieval Ordinary (4 volumes)
  • Digitised Armorials (Heraldica Nova)
  • e-codices: Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland (search "wappenbuch")
  • Early and Europeans Rolls of Arms
  • Elefant Ordens Ridder Bog
  • Escutcheons of Science
  • Euraldic.com
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  • Famiglie Nobili di Sicilia
  • Familienwappen (in German)
  • Flags and Arms of Serbia (in English)
  • Genealogía de varias casas (BNE Ms. S.XVII)
  • Heraldic Register of the Vlaamse Heraldische Raad
  • Héraldique européenne
  • Heraldry of the West of England
  • Heraldry of the World (was International Civic Heraldry)
  • Heratlas: Atlas d'héraldique française
  • Ingeram Codex, or Codex Cotta (1459)
  • Insegne di vari prencipi et case illustri d'Italia (16th-17th C)
  • Irish Register of Grants of Arms 1936-1980
  • Kleine Salzburgische Chronik (1624)
  • Köldererrolle (1512-13)
  • Le Grande Armorial de la Toison d'Or
  • Links to Online Rolls of Arms
  • Livro do Armeiro-Mor (1506-1509)
  • Luzerner Familienwappen
  • Magyar Címerek
  • Manesse Codex (1305-1340)
  • Matthews' American Armoury and Blue Book
  • Medieval Armorials
  • Münchener DigitalisierungsZentrum Digitale Bibliothek
  • Papworth's Ordinary Vol. I
  • Papworth's Ordinary Vol. II
  • Recorded Arms for Campbell
  • Siebmacher's Wappenbuch (1701)
  • Sir David Lindsay of the Mount's Armorial (Scotland)
  • The Book of Public Arms (Fox-Davies)
  • The Chinese Armorial
  • The Civic Heraldry of France
  • The Dering Roll
  • The Gelre Armorial
  • The Jan Raneke Archive of Coats of Arms in Medieval Europe
  • The Livery Companies Database
  • The names and armes of all the nobilitie who were in England (1597)
  • The Public Register of Arms, Flags, and Badges of Canada
  • The Rous Roll
  • Three rolls of arms of the latter part of the thirteenth century
  • Ukrainian Heraldry (in English)
  • Våbenbøger (Armorials of the Orders of the Elephant and Dannebrog)
  • Virginia Heraldica (Crozier)
  • Wapenboek Beyeren (ca. 1405)
  • Wappen= und Handbuch
  • Wappenbuch der Katharina von Nassau-Dillenburg
  • Wappenbuch of the Arlberg Brotherhood of St. Christopher by Vigil Raber
  • Wappenregister der Roland Wappenrolle Berleberg
  • Wappensamlung der Gemeinschaft wappenführender Familien
  • WappenWiki
  • Zurich Roll of Arms
  • Zurich Roll of Arms Redrawn, with Blazons

Military Heraldry Websites

  • Air Force Historical Research Agency (U.S.)
  • Exército Português (Portuguese Military Heraldry)
  • RAF Squadron Badges
  • Stemat nE UshtrinE Shqiptare (Albanian Military Heraldry)
  • The Institute of Heraldry (U.S.)
  • U.S. Air Force Heraldry
  • U.S. Army Heraldry
  • U.S. Army Patches
  • U.S. Coast Guard Heraldry
  • U.S. Naval Ships Coat of Arms

Movie Clips About Heraldry

  • Carving a Heraldic Crest in Stone
  • Coat of Arms (Audiopedia)
  • Coats of Arms of the Signers of the (American) Declaration of Independence
  • Conservation of the Coats of Arms of the Knights of the Golden Fleece
  • Drawing Heraldry
  • Drawing Heraldry : Decorating Cookies
  • Emblazoned Introduction to Heraldry
  • Heraldry (Audiopedia)
  • Heraldry (John Dough)
  • Heralds Tabard by Vittorio Gifra
  • History of Heraldry with Peter O'Donoghue
  • How to Blazon a Coat of Arms
  • How to Trace Your Coat of Arms
  • I Am Fenwick (humor)
  • Introduction to Heraldry
  • Introduction to Heraldry in America
  • Irish Civic Heraldry: People, Places, and the Past
  • James Bond and the College of Arms (OHMSS)
  • Leather Conservation: The Black Prince's Shield
  • TED Talk: Why City Flags May Be the Worst Designed Thing You've Never Noticed
  • The College of Arms
  • The Herald's Complaint (humor)
  • The Heraldic Artist: Neil Bromley
  • The Proud Symbolism of Heraldry
  • The Real Truth Behind Coats of Arms
  • The U.S. Army Institute of Heraldry (1969)
  • University of Salford Coat of Arms
  • Up Close with The Black Prince's Cap of Maintenance (Canterbury Cathedral)
  • What is and Is NOT a Coat of Arms

Some Good On-Line Heraldry Books

  • A Complete Guide to Heraldry (Fox-Davies)
  • A Dictionary of Heraldry, by Elvin (1889)
  • A Display of Heraldrie by John Guillim (1611 ed.)
  • A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland (Burke)
  • A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry (Gough and Parker) (1894)
  • A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry (Parker)
  • A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry (Parker)
  • A System of Heraldry, Vol. 1 (Nisbet)
  • A System of Heraldry, Vol. 2 (Nisbet)
  • A Treatise on Ecclesiastical Heraldry (Woodward)
  • A Treatise on Heraldry (Woodward)
  • Bibliotheca heraldica Magnæ Britanniæ
  • English Brasses (Woodcock) (1949)
  • Grantees of Arms to the End of the Seventeenth Century
  • Heraldic Badges (Fox-Davies)
  • Heraldic Symbols of Georgia
  • Heraldry Online - Online Heraldic Resources
  • Robbia Heraldry
  • The Canadian Heraldic Dictionary
  • The Right to Bear Arms (Fox-Davies)
  • Ye Comic History of Heraldry (1878)

On-Line Heraldic Clipart

  • Armory Blanks
  • Brickbat's Armorial Stash (25mb zip file)
  • Clipart ETC: Heraldry: Complete Coats of Arms
  • Clipart ETC.: Heraldry
  • Free Clipart Heraldry Imagery
  • Free Heraldic Clipart
  • Griffin d'Or - Heraldic Charges (12mb zip file)
  • Griffin d'Or - Shields and Ordinaries (6mb zip file)
  • Heraldry Studio on Steam
  • Pictorial Dictionary of Heraldry
  • Shareware Clip Art Collection (from Don Phillips)
  • SVG Graphics for Heralds
  • Traceable Heraldic Art

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Thursday, February 5, 2009

Heraldry in the News!

But not in a happy way. There's been a fire at the College of Arms.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7872224.stm

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/fire-hits-college-of-arms-1547334.html

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5669426.ece

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5671517.ece
Posted by David B. Appleton at 8:32 AM
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