To clarify a bit with regard to crests: while the head of a new branch of a family or clan will usually adopt a new crest, and a matriculant may request a new crest when Lord Lyon acknowledges his differenced arms, many armigers do not take up a new crest, and continue to bear the same crest as their father or grandfather.
Consequently several armigers in the same family will often have the same crest.
This is not to be confused with the concept of a clan badge, where a member wears a metal representation of his chief’s crest on his bonnet. The wearer of such a badge may or may not be an armiger. But an armiger will usually have a badge made of his own crest.
In a badge of this kind, the crest appears on a circular device that is clearly not a strap and buckle. The strap and buckle invariably appear where the crest of a chief or chieftain is worn by a follower.
It has often happened that the College of Arms has required that a crest bear a cadency mark or some other mark of difference, but this is not usual in Scotland.
Regards,
Mike
Last edited by Mike_Oettle; 8th August 13 at 10:24 AM.
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