Another coat of arms for one of my RP characters, Camille "Rosy" Grey, a black hat hacker who specializes in covert entry and uses drones to case her target location.
Usually I have some kind of in-universe justification for giving my characters a CoA, but this time I got nothing. I just like making these.
A fleur-de-lis is a heraldic symbol in the shape of a lily with three petals. In fact, the name is French for “lily flower.”
Happy Fleur de lis day to those who celebrate.
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/06/7-june-fleur-de-lis-day.html
RE: https://sueden.social/@OGR_SHA/116702181659702263
I'm only incidentally familiar with solarpunk, although I've liked the bits I have seen. The banner here is a nice bit of #heraldry.
On this day in 1723, Elinor Perry McFarlan died aged 34. The Journals show a coat of arms from the gravestone of her and her husband at Donaghanie, Clogherny, Co. Tyrone: https://tinyurl.com/mcfar1723
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Illustration by Charles Mavelot, from Nouveau livre de differens cartouches, couronnes, casques, supports et tenans (1695).
Source: The Getty / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/713e2d35-17d0-4b7a-bfa9-0bbce3a20a26
#initials #maritime #mermaids #decorative #calligraphy #heraldry #design #art #publicdomain
On this day in 1776, James Linghem died aged 78. See this and other gravestone inscriptions from the old graveyards in Glenarm, Co. Antrim, in the Journals: https://tinyurl.com/ling1776
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📜 The hidden Viking continuity is written into the Lovibond coat of arms:
• Shield in old line: Three silver rings (the sacred oath rings).
• Crest in new line: A boar's head "upon a rock proper"—a raw, unhewn natural rock symbolizing the open-air Thing site.
From 10th-century legal guardians to 19th-century innovators. This lineage seems to have kept its origin alive for about 1,000 years.
Read the full analysis: https://medium.com/@moon44dark/proposal-for-a-new-derivation-of-the-name-lovibond-bff22dfcd462
📜 Re-evaluating the surname Lovibond!
The known textbook theory of "love-bond" (makes little sense for medieval landed gentry). A new research points to the #Viking Age in Norfolk's Danelaw.
The possible origin? The Old Norse Lófa-bóndi:
• Lófi: Flat palm, ritually placed on sacred silver rings or a rock to swear oaths at the Thing courts.
• Bóndi: Free, weapon-bearing squire/judge.
A Lófa-bóndi was therefore an "Oath-Sworn Legal Surety".
RE: https://ohai.social/@thejessiekirk/116534983179276849
I'm going to build a set of 12 knight miniatures with historically correct horses, armour and weapons for jousting, circa 1450.
But I'm going to have fun with the heraldry and have whatever medieval knights I like because I'm weird.
(Suggestions welcome but it's pretty niche.)
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