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 ...

Davies was an American diplomat and husband to Marjorie Merriweather Post, who built the Mar-a-Lago resort that now belongs to the president, and where presumably he first saw the coat of arms.

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 ...

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 ...

Add or edit a note on this artwork that only you can see. You can find notes again by going to the ‘Notes’ section of your account. A coat of arms set into a rectangular niche situated above an ...

This month our featured item is a manuscript containing over 1200 hand-drawn, coloured illustrations of coats of arms. They represent nearly 600 ... dates from the nineteenth century. A pencilled note ...

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

Trinidad and Tobago is redrawing the island’s coat of arms for the first time since its creation in 1962 to remove references to European colonisation – a move lauded by many in the eastern ...

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 ...