In a follow-up to a post I made in this thread: http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...ed-arms-65298/
My niece has a coat of arms assignment for school, and I’d like to figure out what our coats of arms might look like, with the appropriate cadency bordures applied.
Here’s the original post, with some changes:
If I were to petition a grant of arms from Lyon for my 5xg-gf (that's how far back I have to go to get to a subject of the Crown, much less Scotland), he would likely start with the Scott coat of arms, thus: "Or, on a bend Azure a star between two crescents Or". That's the blazon for the Scott coat of arms on the Buccleuch line (Chief of the name Scott).
Since I can't trace back definitively to the chiefly line or to a cadet branch of known armigers, in order to distinguish between the chiefly line and mine, we could discuss different things to include on the shield. I think a long rifle or something to represent the Bluegrass would be appropriate, since my family settled on the VA frontier in the mid-1770's and were among the first to settle in KY in the 1790's. Maybe I could put that in chief above the bend azure?
Lyon would then difference the arms accordingly for each succeeding generation:
o my 4xg-gf, the second son, would be differenced (under Stodart's conventions probably a bordure, possibly Or, maybe Argent)
o my 3xg-gf, the eldest son, would be undifferenced from above
o my 2xg-gf, the eldest son, would be undifferenced from above
o my g-gf, the third son (either a change in the patten of the bordure or a change in color, or both)
o my gf, the eldest, would probably be undifferenced from my g-gf (although his parents didn't marry until 2.5 years after his birth.After my previous posting, a lawyer friend found that my gf would be legitimized under KY law, so no bordure compony.)
o my f, the eldest, would be undifferenced from my g-gf
o me, the eldest, would be undifferenced from my g-gf (except for a label argent of three points until my father passes)
o my brother, the second son of our father, would be differenced by yet another change in the bordure
o my niece, the eldest daughter of my brother, would be undifferenced from my brother’s (he passed away last August), but instead of a shield her arms would properly be on a lozenge
Just what those bordures might be has me a bit confused, since the primary color of the Scott arms is Or and under Stodart, the second son - in this case my 4xg-gf - gets a bordure Or.
Applying for a grant of arms and matriculations is moot point for now, as I don't have the funds to continue the research for proofs.
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