Arm Escutcheon
August 8th, 2008
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Arm Escutcheon
If your surname is something like Jones, Smith or Johnson....?
How do you go about finding your coat of arms(crest/escutcheon). There are a million crests for Johnson. How can you find out which one applied to your family name?
There is no such thing as a family crest. A crest is part of a coat of arms. Coats of arms do not belong to surnames. They were and are granted to individual men and only their direct legitimate male line descendants can inherit a coat of arms. The oldest son gets his father's when he dies. The other sons are entitled to one with differences.
Also, there can be more than one man with the same surname, not all necessarily related, that were each granted their own coat of arms, all different. Some with that surname were never granted one and their descendants are not entitled to a coat of arms at all. Most people aren't. No one peddler who sells them on the internet, at airports, in shopping malls, in magazines or solicit by mail will have all of them. They don't need to in order to sell to the gullible. The only time they will have more than one is if more than one person with the same surname from different national origins were granted one, then they will have one of each when there might be others.
See the links under sources, one from the British College of Arms(they grant coats of arms and are the ultimate authority) and the other from the most prestigious genealogical organization in the U.S., The National Genealogical Society.
Real coats of arms will not be mounted on a walnut plaque. They won't have a name over, under or across it. Frequently, they are a copy of a valid coat of arms for someone with the surname given, but what isn't valid is they are sold like they belong to everyone with a particular surname. Also, the family history that comes with them will not be the family history of everyone with that particular surname.
Now, it is possible you have more than one in your family tree. That doesn't necessarily mean you are entitled to any one of them. It just means that after doing research, you find more than one ancestor that was granted a coat of arms and if you have a book printed or even published on your family history, it is quite valid for you to put pictures of your ancestors' coats of arms in your book. It would not be valid, however, for you to put in your book those that were granted to someone with the same surname as your ancestor.
If you have any English lines that goes back to early colonial days in the American South, your chances of finding more than one in your family tree are very good. Actually some in the South have the one their ancestor brought over from England 300-400 years ago. They usually don't display them. Afterall, they aren't the least bit good for buying groceries or GASOLINE.
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Coat of Arms - Heraldry Classifications
Family history researches may at some point get involved in examining a coat of arms to determine the history of a family or simply for the pleasure of finding a heraldic connection to their family lines. Many family history researchers believe that a coat of arms is only granted to families or individuals. In fact heraldic symbols extend to corporations, communities, societies and cities as well. There are several major classifications of heraldic arms, some of which fall outside of the family or individual type. Such classifications are Arms of Succession, Community, Dominion, Pretension, Concession, Family, Alliance, Patronage and Office.
One unusual category of arms was 'Arms of Attribution.' These are fictitious arms invented by heralds in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries for royalty that actually died before coats of arms were in use.
The below classifications are the most generally valid categories in use from the past and today.
Succession - These are arms that are taken up by those who inherit certain estates by bequest, entail, or donation.
Community - These are arms that are associated with bishoprics, cities, universities, academies, societies, guilds and corporate bodies. Many of these go back to a very early period.
Dominion (or Sovereignty) - These are the arms of the kings or sovereigns of the territories they govern, which are also regarded as the arms of the State. Thus the Lions of England and the Russian Eagle are the arms of the Kings of England and the Emperors of Russia, and cannot be altered by a change of dynasty. In America several states have official arms of Dominion that derive from old rulers of the colony, such as in Maryland which bears the arms of Cecililus Calvert, second Lord Baltimore, who was the proprietor of the colony.
Pretension - These are arms of kingdoms, provinces, or territories to which a prince or lord has some claim, and which he adds to his own, though the kingdoms or territories are governed by a foreign king or lord: thus the Kings of England for many ages quartered the arms of France in their escutcheon as the descendants of Edward III., who claimed that kingdom, in right of his mother, a French princess. Nearly all early sovereigns bore arms of this type as they constantly disputed territories.
Concession - These are arms granted by sovereigns as the reward of virtue, valor, or extraordinary service and deeds. All arms granted to subjects were originally conceded by the Sovereign.
Family (or paternal arms) - These arms are such as are hereditary and belong to one particular family, which none others have a right to assume, nor can they do so without rendering themselves guilty of a breach of the laws of honor punishable by the Earl Marshal and the Kings at Arms. The assumption of arms has however become so common that little notice is taken of it at the present time. These types of arms sometimes are modified over time by various family members.
Alliance - These are arms gained by marriage.
Patronage - These arms are such as the lesser gentry bore as subjects to governors of provinces, lords of manors or feudal lords. They usually derive from the coat of arms of the lord and indicate a level of dependence on such, as well as the connection to that manor.
Office - These are arms born by those holding certain offices such as the King of Arms in England or the Butlers of Ireland, ancestors of the Dukes of Ormond.
About the Author
Mark D. Jordan is a researcher and freelance writer living in Pennsylvania. Other heraldry related information can be found at How to Research Your Family and Best Medieval Videos.
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