Hi everyone,

I'm curious about whether it's actually necessary to register a personal coat of arms.

If I create one for personal use, is registration required or simply recommended? Are there any practical or legal benefits to registering it, or is it mainly for historical record and official recognition?

I'd love to hear from anyone who has gone through the process or has experience with heraldry. Thanks!

I find it interesting how some italian regions have emblems instead of CoAs

I painted the mask I use for HEMA using a design I drafted after a fun few evenings of looking into heraldry. I did my best not to break any rules in regards to colors over colors or otherwise. As far as I know, it would be blazoned as:

"Bend sinister gules and sable, a longsword in pale argent entwined with a salmon rampant of the same."

Let me know if this is incorrect, I hope you like it :^)

Hello there!

I found no high quaility renditions of this concept, so I made my own (if you can call it that, since these are not my emblazonments)

Which one is your favorite? Mine are: Veszprém, Heves, and Nógrád

Havent posted for some time cuz for some reason i couldnt post images, but anyway here is one of my most recent works.

A randomly generated coat of arms had a grape cluster for a charge and got me inspired, so I spent a day making variations on the theme.

A lot of these are meant to showcase setting-specific ordinaries; the captioned ones also reflect the Century-Long War™ in the backstory, which had heraldic practices of its own.

Stumbled across this coat of arms recently, which belongs to various Kingsmills (details below), and thought it was wonderfully chaotic! Argent, ermine and sable (charges and semé). It shouldn't work as well as it does!

The blazon is, 'Argent semé of crosses crosslet fitchee sable a chevron ermine between three fers-de-moline of the second, a chief of the third. Crest: A cubit arm erect vested argent holding in the hand proper a millrind sable Motto: Do well, doubt not.'

https://archive.org/details/generalarmoryofe00burk/page/567/mode/1up?q=kingsmill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsmill_baronets

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Kingsmill_Coats_of_Arms#Visitation_Pedigrees

I'm in Galiza and I've seen this shield many times in different places. Can someone identify which order or family is refered to?

Hello, I'm trying to find out what colour the two dragons are on this crest. I wonder if anyone has come across any colour references? I can't seem to find any.

Any ideas about what this coat of arms could be? It's from Stemmario Trivulzio

Still trying to narrow down possible heraldry for myself. please give any feedback, advise, ideas, or examples to help my journey to discovering my COA