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The attributed arms of the Knights of the Round Table were a significant element in medieval heraldry. The identification of individuals from the Arthurian legends with particular arms is evidenced from as early as the 12th century (Loomis 1938, 47). By the 15th century some 200 such arms had been attributed[citation needed]: while some were arbitrary, a considerable number, especially those relating to the major figures of the legends, had become fixed. Not all characters are linked to arms, however: none are apparently known for Merlin, Uther Pendragon or Mark or for women characters.
The following list, comprising 145 arms, is based on that of 178 arms produced by Michel Pastoureau,[1] concentrating particularly on French works, and featuring a number of names known only, for example, from lists of participants in tournaments, and otherwise unfamiliar. This is the largest such list available, although this is also incomplete.[2]
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Abandain le Fortuné
Argent, an inescutcheon gules Motto : BIEN FORTVNÉ |
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Abilan du Désert
Sable, an escarbuncle or Motto : HORS DV DÉSERT |
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Acostant l'Aduré
Or, a fess azure Motto : FORS ADVRÉS |
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Agloval de Galles (son of Pelinore, brother of Perceval and of Lamorac of Galles, nephew of Lamorac of Listenois)
Purpure crusilly or, a lion rampant argent armed and langued gules Motto: DE GALLES DE GALLES |
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Agravaine the Proud (son of King Lot of Orkney, nephew of Arthur, brother of Gawain, Gaheris and Gareth, half-brother of Mordred)
Purpure, a double-headed eagle or armed and beaked gules, overall a fess vert [3] Motto:NE POVR MOVRIR |
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Agricor le Beau Géant
Ermine Motto: POC A PARLER |
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Aguisant (King of Scotland, distant cousin of Arthur)
Argent, within an orle flory a lion gules armed and langued sable Motto: SANS PAOVR AVOIR |
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Aiglin des Vaus (nephew of Keu d'Estrans, brother of Kahedin de la Vallée)
Gules, a fess per fess or and sable crenellated and couped Motto: MONS OV VALS |
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Aliblel
Azure, six mascles argent, impaling Ermine
Motto: IE SERVIROI |
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Alexander the Orphan (cousin of Tristan)
Vert, a lion rampant argent |
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Amant le Bel Jouteur
Sable, a woman's face proper crined or Motto: C'EST POVR ELLE |
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Andeliz the Red
Argent, a vol inverted sable Motto: TOVT POVR LA VIE |
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Aran du Pin
Vert, three pinecones or Motto: POMMES DE PIN |
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Argaanor the Rich
Sable, an armed knight mounted on a horse forcené or bearing a battle-axe of the same shafted gules Motto: NORGALLES NORGALLES |
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Argaas the Fair
Or, a bull statant gules, armed, unguled and langued azure Motto: SANS PLVS AVANT |
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Argoier le Fel
Or, three bendlets sable Motto: ET TOVT POVR ELLE |
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Ariohan (Prince of Sessoigne [Saxony] )
Argent, a wyvern sable armed and langued gules Motto: MARTEIZE |
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Armand the Pilgrim
Sable, semé of escallops alternately or and argent Motto: BOVRDONS ET COQVILLES |
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Armond
Or, a griffin segreant vert, armed and beaked argent Motto: A TOVTES BESTES CLOC |
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Arphasar (brother of Esclabor, uncle of Palamedes and of Saphar)
Sable, a saltire argent Motto: AV COEVR HARDI |
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Arthur (King of Britain, son of Uther Pendragon, uncle of Gawain and his brothers)
Azure, three crowns or Motto: PENDRAGON TESTE DE DRAGON |
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Arthur the Small (natural son of King Arthur)
Sable, a tree or. Motto: C'EST POVR ARTHVR |
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Artus ly Blois
Sable, a sparrowhawk argent, beaked, legged and armed or Motto: A L'ESPERVIER |
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Bagdemagus (king of Gorre, nephew of King Urien, uncle of Patrides le Hardi)
Gules, three gloves argent Motto: DE GORRE EN GORRE |
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Balan (brother of Balin)
Argent, a boar passant armed and unguled gules Motto: MAR CAR DAIC |
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Balin (elder brother of Balan, known as "the Knight with Two Swords")
Argent, a boar passant armed and unguled gules, in chief three five-pointed mullets azure Motto: NARIN |
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Ban of Bénoïc (father of Lancelot and of Hector, grandfather of Galahad, brother of King Bors of Gaunes, uncle of Bors and Lionel)
Argent, three bendlets gules Motto: A L'AVENTVRE |
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Banyers le Forcené
Gyronny of eight gules and argent Motto: CANTORBIE |
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Bedevere (Arthur's marshal)
Or, a banner gules Motto: PREIST A VOLER |
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Blanor (brother of Blioberis, cousin of Lancelot, Hector, Bors and Lionel)
Argent semé of crescents sable, overall three bendlets gules Motto: PETRAZO |
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Blioberis (brother of Blanor, cousin of Lancelot, Hector, Bors and Lionel)
Argent semé of crescents sable, overall three bendlets gules Motto: BLIOBERIS |
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Bors (one of the three chosen for the Quest for the Grail; sometimes known as "the Exile" to distinguish him from his father Bors of Gaunes, elder brother of Lionel, cousin of Lancelot and Hector, father of Hélain the White)
Ermine, three bendlets gules Motto: PENOS PENAC |
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Bors of Gaunes (father of Bors and Lionel, brother of King Ban of Bénoïc, uncle of Lancelot and Hector, King of Gaunes)
Argent semé of five-pointed mullets sable, overall three bendlets gules Motto: Y CE FERA |
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Brandelis (son of Lac, brother of Erec)
Gules, three swords erect argent hilted and pommelled azure Motto: BRANDELIX |
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Breunor le Chevalier sans Peur (father of Dinadan and Breunor the Black)
Argent Motto: SANCERRE |
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Breunor the Black (son of Breunor le Chevalier sans Peur, brother of Dinadan; sometimes known as "La Cote Mal Tayle" - "the Knight of the Ill-Cut Coat" - or "the Knight of the Vermilion Shield" )
Argent, a lion rampant chequy gules and sable, armed and langued vert Motto: SANS PEVR |
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Brien des Iles
Sable, a dog courant or armed and langued azure Motto: SOIT BIEN OV MAL |
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Broadas the Spaniard
Sable, a crayfish palewise or Motto: BROADAS BROADAS |
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Brumer de la Fontaine
Quarterly or and sable, a fountain emitting water argent Motto: PLAINE FONTAINE |
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Brun sans Joie
Gules goutty d'eau impaling Vert goutty d'or'' Motto: NORTOMBRELAN |
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Brun sans Pitié (otherwise "le Félon" )
Sable, a dragon argent Motto: SANS PEVR |
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Cadrus
Or, semé of tourteaux Motto: SANS SY |
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Calinan
Or, a wyvern gules armed and langued sable. Motto: FILS DE GVIRON |
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Calogrenant
Gules, a serpent vorant a child all or Motto: PIS QVE GYSSOE |
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Claudas
Azure, a pine tree or |
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Courant de Roche Dure
Sable, three rabbits argent Motto: DVR COMME ROCHE |
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Dalides de la Rivière
Argent, two dolphins addorsed sable langued gules Motto: C’EST POVR RYVIERE |
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Damatha
Vair Motto: PVIS QVE AINSI VA |
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Danain the Red
Sable, a porcupine or armed azure Motto: FORCE OV DROICT |
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Desier the Proud
Argent, a seven-headed hydra gules langued vert Motto: LOGRES LOGRES |
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Dinadan (son of Brunor le Chevalier sans Peur, brother of Brunor le Noir)
Argent, a lion rampant sable armed and langued vert Motto: BIZNIQVEN |
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Dodinel le Sauvage
Argent, an eagle displayed wings elevated azure beaked and legged or Motto: TOVT SAVVAIGE |
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Erec
Or, three serpents' heads couped gules langued vert Motto: SORTÉS SORTÉS |
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Esclabor le Méconnu
Chequy or and gules Motto: |
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Félix le Quérant
Vert, a winged stag trippant vert unguled sable Motto: AINSI LE VEVLX |
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Faran the Black
Azure, three eagles displayed wings elevated argent beaked and legged sable Motto: TREMEN |
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Faran the Red
Azure, three eagles displayed wings elevated argent beaked and legged sable within a bordure componny of the last and or Motto: DE TOVTES TAILLES |
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Fergus
Per fess argent and gules, paly of six counterchanged Motto: A L’AVENTVRE |
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Ferrandon the Poor
Or, six bars vert Motto: TREMENER |
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Ferrant du Tertre
Gules, a bear passant or armed sable Motto: IE M’Y TROVVE |
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Friadus le Gai
Per chevron gules and or Motto: DISQVEYNEIT |
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Gaheris (third son of King Lot of Orkney, brother of Gawain, Agravaine and Gareth, half-brother of Mordred, nephew of Arthur)
Purpure, a double-headed eagle displayed or beaked and legged gules within an orle of gouttes de sang |
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Galahad
Argent, a cross gules Motto: O L’AIDE DIEV |
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Galegantin de Norgalles
Purpure, a lion rampant argent armed and langued vert Motto: NORGALLES |
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Galegantin le Galois
Per pale or and sable, a lion rampant vert armed and langued gules |
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Galehaut
Argent semé of five-pointed mullets azure, a lion rampant gules armed and langued vert Motto: DE ISLE EN ISLE |
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Galinde du Tertre
Argent, a martlet sable[7] Motto: MONS ET VAVLS |
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Ganemor
Gules, a wolf courant or armed and langued sable Motto: SOIT BLANC OV NOIR |
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Gareth (youngest son of King Lot of Orkney, brother of Gawain, Agravaine and Gaheris, half-brother of Mordred, nephew of Arthur)
Purpure, a double-headed eagle displayed or beaked and legged gules, overall a cottice gules |
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Gawain (eldest son of King Lot of Orkney, brother of Agravaine, Gareth and Gaheris, half-brother of Mordred, father of Guinglain, nephew of Arthur)
Purpure, a double-headed eagle displayed or beaked and legged gules Motto: ORCANIE ORCANIE |
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Geffroi de la Tour
Gules, a tower or masonned sable Motto: TOVT EN TOVR DE LA TOVR |
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Girflet
Or semé of thistles sable Motto: PRES OV LOING |
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Gornain
Sable, on a chief or three escallops gules Motto: AV PIS ALLER |
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Gosenain d’Estrangort
Azure, a lion rampant gardant argent armed and langued gules Motto: ABIZ NICQVEN |
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Gringalas le Fort
Sable, a unicorn argent horned and unguled azure Motto: DV TOVT SAVVAIGE |
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Guinglain (son of Gawain)
Argent, a pale raguly couped gules Motto: RICHEMONT |
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Guiron le Courtois (father of Calinant)
Or Motto: C’EST POVR LA BRVNNE |
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Guivret the Small
Per fess dancetty argent and gules Motto: VENEZ VENEZ |
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Harpin le Dur
Sable, a cross moline argent Motto: A TOVT IEV |
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Hector de Maris
Argent, three bendlets gules, overall a sun azure Motto: AVX MARAIS |
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Helain le Blanc
Argent, three bendlets gules and a label of three points sable Motto: BRANGORES BRANGORES |
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Hermin le Félon
Barruly of ten or and azure Motto: GALICE GALICE |
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Herrois le Joyeux
Argent, three crosses fitchy at the foot sable Motto: CROIX SVR TOVT |
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Henri de Rivel
Vert goutty d'or, a lion passant gardant argent armed and langued gules Motto: LIST LIST |
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Hideux le Fort Tirant
Argent, a chimera rampant gules semy of hurts Motto: TIRANT LE SAVAIGE |
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Hoscalen the Prussian (also known as "the Trojan")
Argent, three rubies proper Motto: PRVCE PRVCE |
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Kahedin
Gules, three mascles or |
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Kahedin de la Vallée
Gules, a scythe in pale or shafted sable Motto: AV RETOVR DV VAL |
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Kalaart le Petit
Sable, a triple orle or Motto: Y CE FERA |
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Karados
Azure, a crown argent Motto: ZELLANDE |
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Kay
Azure, two keys argent addorsed in pale, wards to the chief Motto: HORS DES BVSONS |
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Keu d’Estraus
Or, two bars gemelles sable Motto: TOVT POVR LA VIE |
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Lancelot
Argent, three bendlets gules Motto: DV LAC MA DAME |
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Leodegrance (father of Guinevere)
Sable, a lion passant gardant or armed and langued gules Motto: ASSÉS TOST |
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Lionel
Argent semé of five-pointed mullets sable, three bendlets gules Motto: HARE LEVRIER |
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Méliadus de Léonois
Vert Motto: A LA VERDVRE |
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Méliadus de l’Espine Noire
Or, three crosses botonny gules Motto: A BVSON ESPINOIE |
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Mélior de l’Espine
Sable, a bar or Motto: OV TART |
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Mélyadus le Blanc
Sable, a cross paty or Motto: HORS DES DESERTS |
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Mélyadus le Noir
Argent, three chevronels sable Motto: CLER OV TROVBLE |
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Méraugis de Port les Guez
Argent, a bordure gules Motto: CORNOVAILLE |
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Mador de la Porte
Sable, seven apples argent with shadows gules Motto: PRES DE LA PORTE |
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Malaquin the Dane
Or, a Moor's head sable crowned argent Motto: DANOIS SVYS |
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Malaquin le Galois
Sable, a chalice argent Motto: GNEVT SICOVB DONC |
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Malaquin le Gros
Purpure, on a bend argent three lions passant gardant gules Motto: MALAQVIN MALAQVIN |
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Mandin l’Envoisié
Gules, a mermaid combing her hair argent, scaled purpure Motto: TOVT PAR MESURE |
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Mandin le Sage
Per pale, dexter, vairy or and purpure, sinister, gules Motto: PEV PARLER |
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Margondes le Rouge
Bendy of six gules and or Motto: NÉ POVR CELA |
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Melian de Lis
Gules, a fox passant or armed and langued azure Motto: AV REGNART |
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Melios le Beau Chevalier
Per pale argent and vert, barry of six counterchanged Motto: MELIONS MELIONS |
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Mirandon de la Tamise
Sable, a windmill or Motto: TAMISE TAMISE |
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Mordred
Purpure, a double-headed eagle or and a chief argent Motto: PAR ADVENTURE |
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Nabon le Fel
Argent, three fusils in fess gules
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Osenain Cœur Hardi
Quarterly argent and gules
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Ossenet d’Estrangot
Azure, a lion rampant gardant argent armed and langued gules
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Palamedes
Chequy argent and sable Motto: POVR CELLE POY |
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Patrides au Cercle d’Or
Gules, a chief or, overall a lion rampant sable armed and langued vert Motto: TOVT POVR ARTHVR |
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Patrides le Hardi
Argent, fretty gules Motto: I’EN SVIS |
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Pellinore
Or crusilly azure Motto: PAR LA CROIX |
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Percival
Purpure crusilly or Motto: CRVX CHRYSTI |
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Pharamond
Sable, three toads or Motto: GAVLE GAVLE |
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Radouin the Persian
Sable, a chapel argent, the openings of the field Motto: PAR SVR TOVS ARTHVR |
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Randon le Léger
Per bend sinister or and azure, bendy of six counterchanged Motto: C’EST POVR BRVTVS |
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Rion
Or, a lion passant gardant purpure armed and langued azure Motto: TROP MI TARDE |
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Rousselin du Haut Mont
Or, a wild man gules holding in his hand a club sable Motto: PAR SVR LES MONTS |
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Sadoc de Vencon
Barry wavy of six argent and azure Motto: IEY PIE ET PIAVLS |
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Sagremor le Desreez
Gules, a quarter argent, three five-pointed mullets, the one in dexter chief sable, the other two or |
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Saphar
Per pale, dexter, vair, sinister, chequy or and vert |
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Segurades de Mont Grand
Or, a mountain sable Motto: Lyst |
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Seguran le Brun
Or, a wyvern sable armed and langued argent Motto: SEGVRAN LE BRVN |
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Sibilias aux Dures Mains
Or, a fire gules Motto: D’OVLTRE MER SVIS |
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Sicambrin le Trojan
Sable, a sagittary or, armed with a bow of the same and arrows gules Motto: SOIZE SOIZE |
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Sinados au Fil d’Or
Gules, an orle or Motto: FORTVNE ME INFORTVNE |
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Soliman du Bois Grand
Argent, a stag statant gules armed sable Motto: HORS DV BOIS |
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Synados des Sept Fontaines
Azure, goutty d’eau Motto: PLAINE FONTAINE |
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Talamor le Bouillant
Vert, a dove argent beaked, legged and armed gules
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Taulas de la Montagne
Or, an Imperial orb sable, bound, partitioned and surmounted by a cross gules Motto: MARTEIZE |
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Tor
Or crusilly sable Motto: FORT COMME VNG TOR |
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Toscan three and Roman
Or, a hand sable holding a sword in pale gules Motto: ROMANYE ROMANYE |
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Tristan
Vert, a lion rampant or langued and armed gules Motto: C’EST POVR YSEVT |
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Urien
Azure, a lion rampant or langued and armed gules Motto: A TOVT |
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Virant de la Roche
Gules, a dog passant or armed and langued sable Motto: DE SVR LE ROC |
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Yder (King of Cornwall)
Gules, three lions' heads or langued sable Motto: OR BIEN |
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Ywain (son of King Urien, half-brother of Ywain l'Avoutre, nephew of Arthur and Lot, cousin of Bagdemagus, Gawain and his brothers)
Azure, a lion or, armed and langued gules
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Ywain of Ussenel
Or, two bars gules |
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Ywain the Bastard (natural son of King Urien, hal-brother of Ywain)
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Notes and references
[edit]Unless otherwise mentioned the above blazons are from Michel Pastoureau's "Armorial des chevaliers de la table ronde" as listed on the OLDJP website
- ^ Armorial des chevaliers de la Table ronde, 1983
- ^ omitting, for example, some arms from Malory's Morte d'Arthur, such as those of Abellus
- ^ http://merlin.hypnoweb.net/livres-grimoires/legende/chevaliers-table-ronde.158.501/
- ^ It is unclear whether the mascles should be blazoned 2, 2, and 2, as illustrated, or as 3, 2 and 1.
- ^ http://www.labanquedublason2.com/lecture_fiche_ordre.php3?page=ftr021 This blazon may simply be a misreading of treis (Michel Pastoureau "Armorial des chevaliers de la table Ronde" Ed.: Le Léopard d'Or Paris 2006, ISBN: 2-86377-206-6 )
- ^ "Of Arthur, said to have been king of Great Britain, some say that he had only three crowns, others, six, yet another, nine, sometimes arranged in a triangle, sometimes in a pale, and in a variety of other ways." ("De Artus, qu'on dit avoir été roy de la grande Bretaigne, quelques uns ont dit qu'il n'avoit que trois couronnes, les autres six, un autre neuf, tantost mises en triangle maintenant en pal, et ainsi diversement." De Bara, Le Blason des Armoiries, p.165)
- ^ depicted as an alerion
Sources
[edit]- Brault, G J (1997): Early Blazon (2nd ed.). Boydell Press. ISBN 0851157114
- De Bara, Jérôme (1581): Le Blason des Armoiries
- Loomis, R S (1938): Arthurian Legend in Medieval Art. Modern Language Association of America
- De Bara, Le Blason des Armoiries
- Pastoreau, M (1983, repr 2006): Armorial des chevaliers de la Table ronde. Le Léopard d'Or ISBN 2-86377-206-6
Further reading
[edit]- The Arthurian Encyclopedia (ed. Norris J Lacey, 1986): "Heraldry" article. Garland Publishing Inc
- Jefferson, Lisa (1996): "Tournaments, Heraldry and the Knights of the Round Table" in Arthurian Literature XIV (ed. Carley & Riddy). Brewer
- Loomis, R S (July 1915): "A Sidelight on the 'Tristan' of Thomas". Modern Language Review 10 (3): 304–309. doi:10.2307/3712621
- Loomis, R S (January 1922): "Tristan and the house of Anjou". Modern Language Review 17 (1): 24–30. doi:10.2307/3714327
- Neubecker, O (1976): Heraldry: Sources, Symbols and Meaning. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-046308-5
- Pastoureau, M (1986): Figures et Couleurs. Le Léopard d'Or
- Pastoreau, M (1997a): Traité d'Héraldique (3rd edn). Picard. ISBN 2-7084-0520-9
External links
[edit]- OLDJP heraldic website illustrating the arms as blazoned by Pastoureau
- Arthurian Heraldry at heraldica.org
- King Arthur's Coat of Arms
- An Investigation into the Symbolism of Heraldry in the Legend of Tristram and Isoud
- King Arthur – Attributed Heraldry
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