Bishop David Toups was on a plane to Florida, returning from his introduction to members of the Diocese of Beaumont as its sixth bishop, when he began sketching out the idea for his personal coat of ...

Before the name of your tailor, the make and model of your car, or the size of your superyacht mattered, and before logo-laden handbags or even old school ties, the status symbol for the seriously ...

Whether you blame it on participation trophies, a rotten economy, or Sir John Vanbrugh’s disastrous tenure as the College of Arms’ Clarenceux King of Arms from 1704 to 1725, the facts are indisputable ...

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 ...

Many cultural tourists would have noticed the Grand Masters’ Latin inscriptions and coat of arms on buildings, coins, medals, manuscripts and other printed material. For instance, usually Grandmasters ...

Talk story about L. Proudfoot & Son, of 1819 Beay, makers of crests & coat of arms. Young Lewis Proudfoot represents the third generation of his family to specialize in heraldry. He averages 130 ...

Although some people refer to a “family crest” and a “coat of arms” interchangeably, there is a difference. A crest is an element or part of a coat of arms, but not the entire arms. On a coat of arms, ...

The cardinal who designed Pope Benedict XVI's coat of arms says he needs a new one now that he is no longer the pontiff. "The problem now is whether the Pope Emeritus can keep that same coat of arms ...

King Charles is set to oversee a “new era” as his coat of arms will now feature on all new passports issued from December ...

NEVER mind how poor the Scottish Parliament's logo is. It beggars belief that our nation with seven centuries of heraldry behind it possesses a Parliament which deliberately sidesteps this heritage.