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 ...

What exactly is a coat of arms? The armorial achievement, as it is known in heraldic terms, dates back to medieval times as a ...

There are a couple of thousand different Polish coats of arms. You might expect that these would all include images of some lofty or knightly character but that isn’t always the case. Many are ...

The University Arms, whose background colour is azure, contains a gold-edged open book at its centre, on which is inscribed Disce Doce (Learn and Teach). On either side is a sheaf of eight silver ...

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 ...

Or as we better know it – Essex. His mission was to bring the good ... and beads of blood from bramble scratches on sunburnt arms. But perhaps Cedd would have approved – in Celtic Christianity ...

Caribbean governments are being urged to purge traces of Christopher Columbus from their coats of arms to strike a “dagger through the heart of colonialism”. The Italian explorer’s three ...

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A council has defended the disappearance of a slave from a town's coat of arms. The figure was originally included to reflect ...

All three pediments on its facade are emblazoned with the coat of arms of the king of the United Kingdom. The central shield is divided into four quarters, with three lions in the first and fourth ...

He grabbed her arms and sexually assaulted her before running away, Essex Police said ... man is of a larger build and was wearing a blue coat or mac. The victim has been supported by officers.

As this year’s ballroom contest went live for the first time, an epic show saw JB Gill waltz to the top of the leaderboard, ...