A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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THE PARTITION AND REPARTITION LINES
When there are two perpendicular,
or palar lines, dividing the shield or field into
three equal parts, without cutting the centre, as fig. 15. it is blazoned, tierce in
pale, azure, or, and gules ; and by the Latins, area in
tripartite aquales trientes a
summo (Hi irrium ex cyano, auro, fc? astro, so given us for the arms of Douchat in
France, by Sylvester Petra Sancta.
Tierce in fesse is such another, made by two horizontal lines, dividing the field
into three equal parts,
as fig.
16. tierce in fesse, azure, sable, and argent; the
French say sometimes, d''azure coupe, de sable et tierce $ argent. Sylvester Petra
Sancta blazons such a coat, belonging to the Berengi in Hessia, area tripartita
transversa in tres trientes ex veneto furvo IS argenteo. There are other two tierces, after the position of the bend, dexter, and sinister,
by dividing the field into three equal parts by two diagonal lines ; the first, as fig.
17. tierce in bend, or, gules, and azure, by the name of Noinpar in France. The
other from the left to the right,
as fig. 18. tierce in bend, sinister, or, sable, and
argent, by Turlinger in Bavaria. The French say, instead of tierce in bend, sinister,
tierce en bar.
These partitions, by tiercing the field, are not used in Britain in forming a sim-
ple coat of arms, but only when they marshall three coats of arms in one shield,
of which afterwards. The Germans, French, and other nations, have, besides these
tierces, which make up one coat of arms, others of the same nature, which do not
occur in our British Blazons, at least if they do, they are not under the terms used
abroad, of which I shall give a few instances for my reader's satisfaction.
the name of
Fig. 19. This is called tierce in mantle, azure, argent, and gules, by
Absperg in Ratisbon, which is made when the field is divided into three parts, by
two lines issuing from the middle of the upper part of the shield, and dividing it-
self again at the collar point into two diagonal lines, somewhat circular to the
flanks. Which partition is frequent in the arms of religious orders, to represent
their different habits ;
the undermost area represents the tunic or vest, and the up-
per part the surcoat or pallium, and in what colours they are worn. Sylvester Petra
Sancta, speaking of this partition, Cap. XXIV. says, " Ad haec scutaria chla-
" mvs seu trabea, ter perinde scuti aream partitur ; & quod explicatur utrinque,
" hoc refert pallium, quodque intus apparet, tunicam seu internum amiculum re-
" presentat, ut dubitari non possit, quin ad similitudinem vestium, imo ad rem
" vestiariam haec symboli gentilitii forma pertinet, idque ordinum religiosorum etiam
"
tessenc conformant, exemplo sint trabea aut coccinea, supra tunicam intextam
"
argento; quoe est Ghisiorum Venetiis ac Plessenbergionum in Franconia." And,
on the margin, our author tells us, the French would call it
pile
or chappe ; and
gives us several examples of this nature, some of which are reversed, to whom I refer
the curious. I have observed, that the Spaniards marshall their arms by this
partition, tierce in mantle ; as the family of Henriquez, first and second, argent,
charged with a lion rampant, gules ; and the third of the last with a castle, or; being
descended of a natural son of Ferdinand King of Leon and Castile.
There is another partition more frequent, parted per pile in point, or and sable,
fig. 20. so blazoned by Guillim and other English heralds. Gerard Leigh says, the
pile part of this coat may be charged, and no other part thereof; and that it may
be used as one only coat ; but by what authority he asserts the field cannot be
oharged, I know not, for the practice of is England otherwise : As in the arms of
SEYMOUR. Duke of Somerset, and of PARRE Marquis of Northampton. I do not
take this figure to be a proper partition, but rather a field sable , charged with a
pile or, one of the subordinaries, of which afterwards.
Tierce in pile from the left to the right, gules, argent, and or ; the French say,
tierce embarasse d droit de gueules d' argent et d'or, for the family of NEGENDUCK, as
Menestrier in his La Science de la Noblesse.
Tierce in giron, bend sinister ways, sable, argent, and. gules : But Menestrier
ys, tierce en girons en barre,
mily of Wa's.
de sable, d? argent, et de gueules, fig. 22. for the fa-
Tierce in girons arrondi ; Menestrier says, tierce en girons gironnans au arrondis
de gueules, d' argent, et de sable, carried by De Mengentzer, as in his La Science de
la Noblesse, 011 la Nouvelle Metbode du Blason, fig. 23.
Tierce in pairle, is frequent with the French and Germans, Its form and name-