Ево сад сам превео нешто о грбовима и правилима са француског на енглески. Има неких грешака у терминима али се може разумети.
The Origin of the armorial bearings is very - old. One made offensive weapons, & defensive weapons.
The defensive weapons were shields that one carried on the left arm to avoid the blows made by the enemy; these shields were made of a roughness leather, covered with bronze or iron blades, to resist the sabres, the masses, & others weapons of war. The use of these shields became so frequent by its utility, that there was not a man who made profession of the weapons, which did not have his shield. It came a times where, to be made distinguish in the battle, one painted on his shield some figures of imagination, without anything to determine the colours, without consequence for the posterity, nor for the successions in the families. It was free with each one to take such figure that it wanted, until eleventh century, that the emperor Frederic Barberou:sse lays down rules, of which the execution was entrusted to heralds, judges in this part. Then the figures painted on the shields, passer to the posterity; but what completed to give to the Blazon the form of an art, it was the voyage which the king of France Louis VII. known as the Young person, made in 1147, to recover holy places.
This piles king crossed with several Christian monarchs of various nations, which took all the crosses of forms & different colours. It was made of so beautiful actions in this war, that the descendants of those which are signalled there, intend to perpetuate the memory of it; & it was like introduce the succession of the armorial bearings in the families.
It is to the emperor Frederic Barberousse that one owes the rules of the Heraldry, or of the science of Blazon; they were born in the middle of the tournaments which he invented in 1150 & 60, to exert the nobles in peace time, in order to always he ready to fight, when it is of the need.
One was not admitted with these plays, military & public, only the people of a remarkable quality, & one regulated the parts which they can to carry on their shields, so that their nobility more easily was recognized. A ceremony fallowed admission with the tournament; one was lead by the sound of the brass bands & the trumpets, in a place intended to pose & attach the shield: this was place usually the castle of a large lord, or the cloister of some famous abbey.
One named this exhibition to fair window & the shields or escutcheons of all the knights received for the tournament, as well while attacking as while defending, were exposed, so that it was allowed to each one to suit them as recognized, & to make complaints against those with which they belong to, if it was to be made there. If the serious complaint was, then it is to satisfy there or to be excluded from the tournament.
These brass bands & these sounds of trumpets, which declare the nobility of the gentleman, become in time the Heraldry the name of Blazon.
A gentleman who was found more times at tournaments, was able to indicate it by two or more horns that he had as a top on his arms; & when he was with another tournament, it need him not other evidence of nobility to be received there; the use still remains about it in the houses of Bavaria, Erpach, & quantity of other German families.
Blazon means in German to sound or publish, from where one made the word Blazon.
That of armorial bearings comes from the shields which, carried by people of war, used to them as defensive weapons.
And one said the Heraldry, because this art was the study of the heralds who in the past were themselves at the entry of the barrier of the tournament, holding there register of the names & the arms of the knights who present themselves to enter the string. It is them also which at the beginning of the establishment of the armorial bearings, named, composed & design the parts of them; & in the continuation, when the sovereigns awarded title of noble the beautiful actions of some their subjects, they left with these heralds the care to order the parts of the escutcheons of the new nobles
Difference of the armorial bearings. There is of six kinds.
First. Coat of arms of fields (states.)
They must be considered under three aspects.
1°. There are pure & flat armorial bearings of field, like those of France.
2°. Of field of presentation, as they are to kings of England, who carry the arms of France with those of their nation.
3°. Of field of union; they are the arms of several kingdoms joined together in the same coat of arms, as one sees today the arms of England to the first & fourth of France & England, with the second of Scotland, with third of Ireland, since the king of Scotland, Jacques VI. & first of the name, king d' England, succeeded this crown, after the death of the Queen Elizabeth in 1603, & links in the same coat of arms the arms of these kingdoms, by taking the title of king de France & of Great Britain.
The soat of arms of union still meet in the arms of Spain, since the marriage of Ferdinand, fifth king d' Aragon, with Isabelle, queen of Castile & Leon, who brought these crowns to him. Philippe V. & Charles III. into some provisions changed.
2.. – Coat of Arms of dignity.
There are Coat of Arms of interior & external dignities.
The Coat of Arms of interior dignities are those which a person is committed to carry as marks of the dignity of which he is covered. Thus the emperor carries the imperial eagle.
The voters, as well ecclesiastical as secular, who carry the Coat of Arms of their electorate.
See the voters of Cologne & Bavaria in the explanation of their Coat of Arms.
In France the dukes & even ecclesiastical carried in the past the Coat of Arms of their dignity to the 1 & 4; to the 2 & 3 those of their houses; but with-present they lost the use of it.
The Coat of Arms of external dignities are all the marks placed out the armorial & indicating the dignity of the person.
The pope carries for mark of F papal dignity, his stamped armorial of the thiare with two keys.
Cardinals, the red hat or of mouth; archbishops, the green hat or sinople.
Crowns, collars of the orders, mortars & masses of chancellors, Marshals of France, anchors of admirals, vice-admirals, & Generals of the boats, standards of general colonels of cavalry, & flags of infantry, &c. are armorial bearings of external dignities.
3. Coat of Arms of concession.
These Coat of Arms contain parts of the armorial bearings of the sovereigns, or even their armorial bearings entieres, granted to certain people to honour them or reward for some service.
The Arch-dukes of Tuscany of the house of Medicis carry of gold with six oil cakes of mouth posed 1. 2..
& 1. The king of France, Louis XII. name, changed the oil cake of the chief, & allowed Pierre de Médicis, second of the name, Arch-duke of Florence, to put of them one of azure charged with three flower-of-de-lys of gold, in the place of that of the chief.
More recently the king Louis XV. to madme Mercier his nurse granted having it ennoblie, her husband, & all her posterity born & to be born in legitimate marriage, by letters given in Paris in Mars 1716, registrées in Parliament on September 5, & in. room of the accounts the 15 of the aforesaid month of the same year, for armorial bearings one ecu cut of azure & gold, the azure charged with two flower-of-de-lys of gold, & for of two leaned dolphins, of azure, bored, ears of mouth, a royal gold crown posed on the half-compartment; & this, consideration of what the aforementioned lady had happiness to nurse two Sons of France successively & two dolphins.
The house of Mascrany carries four concessions, the eagle given by the empire; the key, by the pope; the helmet, of a duke of Modena; & flower-of-de-lys, of Louis XIII