The Standards for Evaluation of Names and Armory - SCA Heraldry

The Standards for Evaluation of Names and Armory:The Rules for SubmissionsA few special cases follow more stringent rules. For example, the Lancaster and York rose badges are verywidely associated with those families in many forms. Therefore, we do not allow anyone to register thebyname (of) Lancaster with armory including a red rose, or the byname (of) York with armory including awhite rose. Again, the name will normally be registered but the armory returned.F. Claims through Marshalling: Marshalling is the combination of two or more arms into a single design. Bydoing so, it makes a claim about the person that we do not allow in registered arms. This claim can be to amarital or inheritance relationship or about an office that the person holds. In some cases, such designs maybe displayed, even though they cannot be registered.Arms combined using the per pale field division generally combined either marital arms or the arms of anindividual and an office. They are often called impaled arms and were not inherited. The display ofregistered arms impaled to show a marital relationship is encouraged, even though it is not registerable.Arms combined using the quarterly field division generally combined inherited arms from armigerousparents. They are often called marshalled arms or quartered arms. Once inherited, they were sometimesfurther cadenced as a whole. While the Spanish occasionally used per saltire divisions for marshalleddesigns, they more commonly used quarterly divisions for this, so we do not consider fields divided persaltire as potentially marshalled designs.Marshalling in these rules refers to both impaling and quartering collectively. Arms which appear to bemarshalled cannot be registered.Both quarterly and per pale divisions were used in single armorial designs and also in marshalled designs.Therefore, quarterly and per pale divisions of the field may be registered only when there is no unmistakableappearance of marshalling. Most designs are either clearly not marshalled or clearly marshalled, but somerequire more careful examination:1. Designs which do Not Create the Appearance of Marshalling: A design with one of these features is notmarshalled.a. Plain Field or Other Field Division: Only designs with per pale and quarterly field divisions arepotentially marshalled. Designs with another field division or no field division are not marshalled underthese rules.b. Complex Lines of Division: As marshalling was only used with plain line divisions, the use of acomplex line of division with a quarterly or per pale field division does not create the appearance ofmarshalling.For example, Per pale azure and Or, a talbot and a hart rampant addorsed has the appearance ofmarshalling. However, Per pale raguly azure and Or, a talbot and a hart rampant addorsed does not.c. Single Primary Charge Group Over The Entire Field: A design that contains only a primary chargegroup of certain kinds does not have the appearance of marshalling. The primary charge group must beone of: semy of identical charges over the entire field, a single identical charge in each charged section, agroup of multiple identical charges in a standard arrangement covering the entire field, or a singlestandard arrangement of multiple primary charges with at least one charge crossing the per pale line ofdivision. Special rules affect designs with peripheral ordinaries and quarterly field divisions with primaryordinaries like crosses; they are discussed in section 3 (A.6.F.3) below.For example, Per pale azure and argent all semy of cinquefoils counterchanged does not have theappearance of marshalling. Quarterly gules and Or, four crescents counterchanged argent and sable doesStandards for Evaluation of Names and Armory – April 29, 2012 - Page 69 of 73