David B. Appleton, slipped and leaved

Slipped and leaved

The terms slipped and leaved, which are applied here to the apples, can be found in [Avilés, J.; 1780a; page 321 and figure 138] when describing the coat of arms of the «Kingdom of Granada in Spain», which states «Argent, a pomegranate proper, showing its seeds Gules, supported, slipped, and leaved with two leaves Vert».

slipped and leaved, being in the blazon of Granada, are also in the blazon of the coat of arms of Spain and its kings. We read this in [Avilés, J.; 1780b; page 321 and figure 138] where he writes «...Quarterly with a point Argent, a pomegranate proper, showing its seeds Gules, stemmed, and leaved with two leaves Vert, which is of Granada».

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Blazon keywords: Apple, Slipped and Leaved.

Bearer: Appleton, David B..

The collaborative blog Heraldica Nova was founded in 2013 by Torsten Hiltmann as part of the Dilthey Project «The Performance of Coats of Arms», funded by the Volkswagen Foundation and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation through their initiative «Focus on the Humanities».

Based at the University of Münster, the blog aims to study heraldry from the perspective of cultural history.

Starting point

By the late Middle Ages, coats of arms were everywhere: carved in stone or wood, depicted on textiles or stained glass, and displayed in both public and private spaces.

Coats of arms, which began as arbitrary symbols adopted by knights in the 12th century, evolved into a complex and powerful system of symbolic representation used by men and women from various social classes, as well as by states, kingdoms, regions, institutions, groups, and more, transcending their initial role as mere symbols of identity.

An underused resource

Despite their historical significance, the creators of this blog argue that academic history and historians have not fully utilized the rich potential of heraldic sources to provide insights into families, lineages, relationships, identities, authorities, and hierarchies, nor to explore modes of symbolic and visual representation and communication. This lack of exploration applies to historical periods from the Middle Ages onwards.

Objectives of the blog

Therefore, the primary goal of Heraldica Nova is to highlight the potential of heraldic sources for modern historical science and encourage their use. To achieve this, the blog serves as:

• A platform for sharing and discussing ideas, hypotheses, and observations among historians and heraldists, each contributing their respective perspectives.
• A resource hub, providing links, databases, information, images, tools, and more. For example, within this area, their list of digitized armorials is particularly noteworthy, including highlights such as: [Urfe; Century XV], [Ingeram, H.; 1459], and the roll of arms of [Edward IV of England; 1461].

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Categories: Link and Heraldry and heralds.

External resources:

• Julia Ziegler, Dear heraldists: How did you learn to blazon?.
• Dear Mr. Salmerón.

Ownership

Blazons, coats of arms or other heraldic objects shown on Blason.es, or any of its associated heraldry domains, belong to their respective owners, which are always identified on this site together with theses blazons or coat of arms or other heraldic objects. But the copyright and the intellectual property of the creation and/or the artistic rendering of these blazons, coats of arms and other heraldic objects belong to me for being the heraldic artist the specific terms of which may be agreed upon with the person who requested them.

Authorization

Only theses owner or their legal heirs could give you their authorization regarding the copy, use, reproduction, transformation, etc. of these blazons, coats of arms, or heraldic objects.

Antonio Salmerón Cabañas, «The Book of the Coat of Arms of Wolves Sable and Unicorns Argent», Ediciones aContracorriente, first edition, ISBN 978-84-941511-8-7, Madrid, 2014.

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The chapters of this book are organized to systematically record all information regarding the creation of a coat of arms and its variants, from its initial conception to its various final interpretations, through intermediate designs, their uses, meanings, registration, communication, and even their different imaginary and artistic recreations.

The chapters are as follows:

• On the ideation and creation of a coat of arms, its derived versions, and other complements.
• On the ideation and creation of a first ornament and its possible enhancements.
• On the ideation and creation of a second and definitive ornament for the coat of arms.
• On designing acts of manifestation, documents, and heraldic frames based on the coat of arms.
• On the meaning of different elements and the symbolism within the coat of arms.
• On the records of the coat of arms and its public communication.
• On the certifications of the coat of arms.
• An imaginary history about the evolution of the coat of arms over the centuries.
• An artistic recreation of the journey back from the future to the past.
• Covering various subsequent and prior variations and combinations.
• Covering other interpretations of the same blazon made by different heraldic masters.

My intellectual property of the illustrations in this book is registered in [Salmerón Cabañas, A.; 2014a].

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Bibliographical reference of century XXI.

The author is Salmerón Cabañas, Antonio.

Bibliographical reference mentioned in the following article:

• Salmerón Cabañas, A.; 2014a

Kimon Andreou edits, from November 2008 to July 2015, his interesting idtg.org on heraldry, genealogy, history and other related topics.

The name and domain of this blog idtg.org are the acronyms of Kimon Andreou's own Greek motto which says:

• «Ischys Dia Tis Gnoseos»,
• in Greek «ΙΣΧΥΣ ΔΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΓΝΩΣΕΩΣ»,
• which could be translated into Castilian as «el poder del conocimiento».

This motto has led him to seek knowledge since he was young and he offers it to us with his enjoyable posts about biographies, books on heraldry, coats of arms that generate controversy, on how to design your own coat of arms (gentilitian), heraldic artists, nobility, orders of chivalry and merit, orthodox orders and many other topics that I recommend.

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Categories: Link, Interpreted, Personal, Coat of arms, Party per fess, Parchment, Illuminated, Outlined in sable, Heraldry and heralds, Azure, Argent, Saltire, Overall, Counterchanged, Barn owl, Regardant, Tree, Oak, Erased and Motto.

Root: Andreou, Kimon.

Party per fess: 1 Azure, a Athenian owl Argent, contourné, in chief; 2 Argent, an oak Azure, eradicated, in base; overall a saltire counterchanged.

Escudo cortado: 1^o de azur, una lechuza al estilo ateniense, contornada de plata, en jefe; 2^o de plata, un roble de azur, arrancado, en punta; brochante sobre el todo un sotuer del uno al otro.

Coat of arms interpreted with: its semicircular (round) base; the fields enameled in plain Azure and Argent; the saltire of traditional dimension, that is, 1/3 of the width of the shield; the figures outlined of the field and illuminated in Argent and Azure; and the ensemble with a raised-stroke finish.

A summary of the Blog Idtg de Kimon Andreou can be consulted within my section of recommended links. That summary is accompanied by another interpretation of Kimon's coat of arms, with the following differentiating characteristics:

• Interpretation outlined in Sable.
• It includes his motto «Ischys Dia Tis Gnoseos», written in Greek, which could be translated as «el poder del conocimiento».
• With his saltire reduced to 2/3 of its traditional width, which is 1/3 of the width of the shield. In this way, the saltire is 2/9 of the width of the shield. The objective of the reduction is to give more space to both his owl and his oak. This reduction does not convert it into the diminished piece called flanque, which has a 1/3 reduction over 1/3 of the shield's width, therefore, 1/9 of the shield's width.

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Blazon keywords: Party per fess, Azure, Argent, Saltire, Overall, Counterchanged, Barn owl, Regardant, Tree, Oak and Erased.

Style keywords: Freehand, Illuminated and Outlined in the field tincture.

Classification: Interpreted, Personal, Coat of arms and Heraldry and heralds.

Bearer: Andreou, Kimon.

Party per fess: 1 Azure, a Athenian owl Argent, contourné, in chief; 2 Argent, an oak Azure, eradicated, in base; overall a saltire counterchanged. Motto: «Ischys Dia Tis Gnoseos» written in greek.

Escudo cortado: 1^o de azur, una lechuza al estilo ateniense, contornada de plata, en jefe; 2^o de plata, un roble de azur, arrancado, en punta; brochante sobre el todo un sotuer del uno al otro. Lema: «El poder del conocimiento» escrito en griego.

Existing coat of arms which I have interpreted with: its semicircular (round) base; its 2 fields enameled in plain tinctures Azure and Argent; its saltire with the traditional dimensions of 1/3 of the width of the shield, that is, the width of a bend; its figures outlined in Sable and illuminated in Argent and Azure; its illuminated motto; and the ensemble in lightly beaten metal.

Contourné ~ Contornado

There are authors who limit the use of the term contornado to turned heads that look to the sinister side of the shield. However, here I use contornado in a more general way, following [Avilés, J.; 1780a; page 61] who defines it as «contornados se dice de los animales ú de las cabezas de ellos, vueltos á la siniestra del Escudo».

There is another more specific use of the term contornado for the crescent moon: «bueltos se dice de los Crecientes que miran á el lado derecho del Escudo, porque mirando á el siniestro se dice contornados», [Avilés, J.; 1780a; page 52].

In English, the equivalent term that I have most frequently seen is «contourné», which comes from French.

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Blazon keywords: Party per fess, Azure, Argent, Saltire, Overall, Counterchanged, Barn owl, Regardant, Tree, Oak, Erased and Motto.

Style keywords: Soft metal, Illuminated and Outlined in sable.

Classification: Interpreted, Personal and Coat of arms.

Bearer: Andreou, Kimon.

Party per fess: 1 Azure, a Athenian owl Argent, contourné, in chief; 2 Argent, an oak Azure, eradicated, in base; overall a saltire counterchanged.

Escudo cortado: 1^o de azur, una lechuza al estilo ateniense, contornada de plata, en jefe; 2^o de plata, un roble de azur, arrancado, en punta; brochante sobre el todo un sotuer del uno al otro.

Existing coat of arms which I have interpreted in the following way: the semicircular (round) base; the fields enameled in Azur color and Argent metal flat; the saltire reduced to 2/3 of its traditional width, that is, to 2/9 of the width of the shield, to leave more space for the figures, but without becoming a flanque of 1/9 of the width of the shield; the figures illuminated in Argent and Azure and outlined in the field; and with a watercolor finish.

Eradicated ~ Arrancado

For the tree, in this case an oak with its acorns and sinuous-edged leaves, whose roots are visible, I use the term arrancado following [Avilés, J.; 1780a; page 28 and figure 12] when blazoning Vernade in France which says that «trae de gules, y un Árbol arrancado de oro, acostado de dos Estrellas de lo mismo».

In English, the equivalent term for arrancado is «eradicated», from the French «arraché».

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Blazon keywords: Party per fess, Azure, Argent, Saltire, Overall, Counterchanged, Barn owl, Regardant, Tree, Oak and Erased.

Style keywords: Watercolor, Illuminated and Outlined in the field tincture.

Classification: Interpreted, Personal and Coat of arms.

Bearer: Andreou, Kimon.

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