Definition of "coat of arms": an arrangement of bearings, usually depicted on and around a shield, that indicates ancestry and distinctions. In scarlet red and white, this coat of arms uses elements ...

Now ubiquitous in public life, heraldry was born out of necessity. Today, it is still everywhere, from the coats of arms of town councils to the shields on school blazers and even in private exchanges ...

Coats of arms, hereditary graphic signs identifying families of nobility, first appeared in Poland in the 13th century. The Polish use of these signs differed in some aspects from what was typical in ...

A change to Denmark's royal coat of arms is attracting more attention than permutations in Scandinavian heraldry might ordinarily receive. In what appears to be a response to President-elect Trump ...

After my column last year, ‘Thank you, pan minister’ in which I ‘thanked’ Prime Minister Dr Rowley for the ill-timed, ill-thought decision to redesign our coat of arms, I never intended to ...

A statue of them is at St Keverne. This plaster coat of arms came from the Flamank home at Boscarne near Bodmin. The arms, once coloured, date from the 1620s and celebrate the marriage of Bernard ...