heraldry

for various other heraldic tidbits, see the blog, 'a genealogist's sketchbook'

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Committee on Heraldry of the New England Historic Genealogical Society.

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William Sumner Appleton, "Positive Pedigrees and Authorized Arms of New England," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 45 (1891), 187-90; 52 (1898), 185. PDF (196K).

George W. Chamberlain, "Amorial Families of New England," Magazine of History with Notes and Queries 6 (Jul-Dec 1907), 285-90; 8 (July-Dec 1908), 22-28, 101-107, 168-76. PDF (636K). Each article contains an identical list of 32 authentic armigerous English colonists in New England. Chamberlain's list reproduces Appleton's with a bit more genealogical detail.

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some armigerous ancestors

some colonial armorial gravestones

a medieval armorial bibliography

some medieval and early modern heraldic images:

the Mountjoy scroll (16th c.): 1st section | 2d section | 3d section

Mountjoy (Toledo/Ayala) Garter stall plate (15th c.)

the 'Lewknor Carpet' (1564)

Wingfield armorial painting (early 17th c.)

Gavard's armorial of the 'Salles des Croisades' at Versailles

Oswald Barron, "Heraldry Revived," The Ancestor 1 (1902), 36-57 (pdf, 1.3 mb).

Oswald Barron, "Heraldry," Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed. (1910-11), 13:311-330 with plates (pdf, 3.2 mb).

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