Emblem

Emblem containing a [ shield de gules, una Justicia de plata, vestida de oro, en su diestra una espada de plata, alzada, guarnecida de oro y en su siniestra una balanza de oro. Crest: An open royal crown Or ]. Two banners and two mottos surround the shield.

Emblema que contiene un [ escudo de gules, una Justicia de plata, vestida de oro, en su diestra una espada de plata, alzada, guarnecida de oro y en su siniestra una balanza de oro. Timbrado de una corona real abierta ]. Dos divisas y dos lemas rodean el escudo.

The 2 banners and the 2 mottos have azure and argent letters, on argent and azure bordered in gules, they are accompanied by 3 stars, 2 smaller ones in azure and 1 larger one in argent; The banners and mottos surround the ANPC shield forming an oval; and I have executed the ensemble in flat colors and with a watercolor finish.

The 2 banners that identify the ANPC are:

• «National Association of Criminology Experts and Experts in Forensic Sciences for the Courts of Justice.».
• «ANPC».

The 2 mottos that express the fundamental motivations of the ANPC are:

• «Loyal knowledge and understanding for the Administration of Justice».
• «Forensic criminologists for the Courts of Justice».

I use the term «banner» when the purpose of the text is to identify the holder and I use the term «motto» when it expresses the holder's motivations, principles, rules, ideals, etc. This distinction is detailed further in the article: Motto, banner, device and war cry.

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Blazon keywords: Without divisions, Gules, Argent, Or, Female figure, One, Justice, Vested, Dexter, Sword, Point upwards, Hilted, Sinister, Pair of scales, Crest, Open royal crown, Crown, Motto (identification) and Motto.

Style keywords: Watercolor, Plain tincture, Semi-circular and Outlined in the field tincture.

Classification: Emblem, Created and Socioeconomic.

Bearer: ANPC.

First publication of my heraldic artwork for this Brotherhood of the Apostle Santiago, Chile, on the blog Twelve Lineages of Soria under the following headline: Interpretation by the heraldic artist Mr. Antonio Salmerón Cabañas, of the arms of the Brotherhood of Knights of the Apostle Santiago (Chile).

Second publication of my heraldic artwork for this Brotherhood of the Apostle Santiago, Chile, on the blog Twelve Lineages of Soria with the following description of the illustration: Interpretation of the arms of the Santiago Brotherhood of Chile, by the prestigious heraldist Mr. Antonio Salmerón.

Third publication of my heraldic artwork for this Brotherhood of the Apostle Santiago, Chile, on the blog Twelve Lineages of Soria with the following description of the illustration: Coat of arms of the Brotherhood of Knights of the Apostle Santiago in Chile, versioned by the renowned heraldist Mr. Antonio Salmerón.

Fourth publication of my heraldic artwork for this Brotherhood of the Apostle Santiago, Chile, on the blog Twelve Lineages of Soria with the following description of the illustration: Brotherhood of Santiago.

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Categories: Link, Republic of Chile, Freehand, Emblem, Crest and mantling, Sable, Argent, Or, Azure, Gules, Crown of Knight, Crown, Cross of Saint James, Cross couped, Party per fess, Overall (deprecated) and Mullet.

Root: Twelve Lineages of Soria.

The Order of Chivalry of Calatrava is both military and religious, founded in the Kingdom of Castile during the 12th century by Abbot Raymond of Fitero.

The purpose of its foundation was the protection of the town of Calatrava la Vieja, which currently belongs to the municipality of Carrión de Calatrava in Ciudad Real. At the time of the order's foundation, it was an important city, in the middle valley of the river Guadiana and with a strategic position, as it was a necessary passage on the road from Toledo to Córdoba to Toledo and between the west and east of the Iberian Peninsula.

On the origin and antiquity of the Military Order of Calatrava, and the form of its Commandery

[Avilés, J.; 1780b; treatise IV, chapter IV, pages 334] writes «The Military Order of Calatrava was instituted by Don Sancho III, King of Castile (called the Desired), in the year 1158, while he was visiting his Kingdom; and being in Toledo with news of the great army that the Moors were gathering to besiege Calatrava la Vieja (which is called so today to distinguish it from the new one, which was founded later); and as the Templars, to whom this Fortress belonged, did not have sufficient power to resist such a large multitude, they handed it over to King Don Sancho himself so that he could take charge of it, as he did».

[Avilés, J.; 1780b; treatise IV, chapter IV, page 335] continues by telling us «The Abbot of Santa María de Fitero», near the river Pisuerga as he will indicate next, «of the Congregation of Cistercian, in the Bishopric of Palencia (which is a Monastery of St. Bernard, located on the river Pisuerga), named Don Raymond, and Friar Diego Velazquez, his subject Monk, who followed the Court, despite the difficulty of the enterprise, requested it from the King to defend it, which was granted, trusting in the virtue of the Abbot, and the strength of the Monk, who had previously been a great Knight in deeds of Arms, and very practiced in war».

[Avilés, J.; 1780b; treatise IV, chapter IV, page 336] continues «Seeing themselves in such an obligation, and that by themselves they could not fulfill it, they turned to Archbishop Don Juan (who was the fourth of Toledo) for help; and he, granting many indulgences in all his Archbishopric to those who, for themselves and for others, supplied the Place with provisions, in the same way as those who, unable to go due to old age or illness, helped with weapons, horses, and men; and having spread this news, so much help came to them, that when the Moors learned that the number of people exceeded twenty thousand men, they abandoned the conquest, returning to their homes: for this reason, the King ceded the Town of Calatrava to the Abbot of Fitero, and his successors, to defend it from the Moors from then on, confirmed later by King Alfonso IX, his son».

[Avilés, J.; 1780b; treatise IV, chapter IV, page 337] concludes «Having obtained this grace, Abbot Don Raymond brought the most suitable Monks from Fitero to Calatrava, and everything else that was necessary for living and for the defense of the Town and its land, which with the people inclined to war who remained, formed the Order of Chivalry of Calatrava, taking this name from the place where the institution was made, which in Arabic Calatrava means Castle».

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Categories: Institution, Interpreted, Religious, Military, Illuminated, Outlined in sable, Freehand, Emblem, Cross of Calatrava, Cross couped and Cross.

Emblem, an inescutcheon, enflamed in orle of sixteen points and irradiated throughout of sixty-four lines Gules.

Emblema, un escusón, llameante en orla de Dieciséis llamas y radiante de sesenta y cuatro líneas movientes todo de gules.

Its focus on heraldic art, along with its foundation in 1987, makes it a pioneering institution in this field on a global scale.

The Society of Heraldic Arts enjoys significant international recognition among heraldic artists, designers, and craftsmen, and its website is heraldic-arts.com.

Its members cover the full range of activities within heraldry for individuals, personal heraldry, public and private entities, socioeconomic heraldry, as well as municipalities, regions, etc., governance heraldry.

The Society of Heraldic Arts used to publish a quarterly magazine called «The Heraldic Craftsman», which was sent to all its members, but it is no longer in publication. The Society also provides advice on the correct use of heraldry to enhance corporate and personal identity.

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Categories: Institution, Interpreted, Socioeconomic, Illuminated, Freehand, Semi-circular, Emblem, Gules, Inescutcheon, Enflamed, In orle, Sixteen, Flame, Irradiated, Sixty-four, Line and Throughout (all sides).

Root: Society of Heraldic Arts.

Order of Cavalry of Alcantara

A cross of Alcantara.

Una cruz de Alcántara.

Interpretation of the emblem of the order with: its cross outlined in Sable, illuminated in Vert; and a heavily beaten metal finish.

The Royal Council of the Orders of Chivalry of Santiago, Calatrava, Alcantara, and Montesa, in its historical account of the foundation of the Order of Alcantara, states that, according to Alonso de Torres y Tapia, Prior of Alcantara and a 17^th-century chronicler, it was founded in 1156, by Don Suero Fernández Barrientos along with other knights from Salamanca, in Pereiro near the River Coa, under the name of the Order of Saint Julian of Pereiro and during the reign of Ferdinand II of León.

Emblem

Regarding the emblem of the Order of Cavalry of Alcantara, [Avilés, J.; 1780b; treatise IV, chapter V, page 340, figure 102], reusing the same figure 102 as for the Order of Calatrava, says «In the past, the Order of Alcantara displayed on its Standard the Gules Straps of Calatrava», remember that due to the commandery of the city of Alcantara, they had to assume some dependency on that of Calatrava, «next to a Pear tree in Vert on a field of Or, which was the insignia of the Order of Pereiro, due to the conformity with which these two Orders lived; but upon changing their Habit, the Pope» Eugene IV «granted them the green Cross», Vert, «in the manner they wear it today, differing from that of Calatrava only in color».

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Blazon keywords: Cross of Alcantara, Cross couped and Cross.

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

Classification: Interpreted, Religious, Military and Emblem.

Bearer: Alcantara, Order of.

Order of Chivalry of Saint Mary of Montesa and Saint George of Alfama.

A cross of Montesa.

Una cruz de Montesa.

Interpretation of the emblem of the order with: its cross outlined in Sable, illuminated in Gules; and a highly hammered metal finish.

The Royal Council of the Orders of Chivalry of Santiago, Calatrava, Alcantara, and Montesa, in its historical review of the founding of the Order of Montesa, states that it was created in 1317, at the request of James II, King of Aragon, through a bull issued by Pope John XXII.

Emblem

About the emblem of the Order of Chivalry of Montesa [Avilés, J.; 1780b; treatise IV, chapter VI, page 342, figure 103], it states that «the Ensign of the Knights of Montesa is a plain red Cross», gules, «plain, which they wear on their Capitular Mantles, or hanging from a red ribbon on the chest over a gold oval; that is, on a field of gold a plain cross of gules (different from how the Masters wore it)» and, therefore, it describes the first emblem of the Order of Montesa and not the one they wear now, which is that same plain cross of gules charged on a cross like that of the Order of Calatrava or like that of the Order of Alcantara, but in Sable instead of Gules or Vert.

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Blazon keywords: Cross of Montesa, Cross couped and Cross.

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

Classification: Interpreted, Religious, Military and Emblem.

Bearer: Montesa, Order of.

Order of Chivalry of Santiago

A cross of Saint James.

Una cruz de Santiago.

Interpretation of the emblem of the order with: its cross outlined in Sable, illuminated in Gules; and a heavily hammered metal finish.

The Royal Council of the Orders of Chivalry of Santiago, Calatrava, Alcantara, and Montesa, in its historical account of the foundation of the Order of Santiago, describes three different points of view:

• The one presented by tradition, which establishes it in 844, after the battle of Clavijo, when fourteen knights led by the Field Master Don Sancho Martínez de Tejada requested permission from Don Ramiro I, king of Asturias between the years 842 and 850, to found it. This traditional view is the one recorded in [Avilés, J.; 1780b; treatise IV, chapter II, page 325] when discussing the origin of the «Military Order of Santiago of the Sword».
• The perspective of historians like Claudio Sánchez Albornoz or Américo Castro, who question the earlier date. Furthermore, [Sánchez Albornoz, C.; 1965; pages 94-136], as cited in [Domínguez García, J.; 2008; pages 69-70], proposes that the actual battle of Clavijo occurred later, in the year 859, and that Ramiro I did not participate, but rather it was a conflict between King Ordoño I and the Moor Muza.
• The view of historians who, based on the statutes of the order found in the Monastery of Uclés, which was the residence of the Master of the Order of Santiago, and the Latin in which they are written, believe that the foundation could indeed date back to the reign of Don Ramiro I.

Emblem

Regarding the emblem of the Order of Chivalry of Santiago, [Avilés, J.; 1780b; treatise IV, chapter II, page 328, plate 25, figure 100] states «the Commandery of this Order was always a red Sword» (gules ~ red), «in the form of a Cross, just as the guards of the ancient Swords that its Knights and Commanders carried on their white Mantles, and today also on the chest in the same manner, hanging from a red ribbon on a gold medal; that is, in a field of Or, a Cross of Gules».

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Blazon keywords: Cross of Saint James, Cross couped and Cross.

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

Classification: Interpreted, Religious, Military and Emblem.

Bearer: Santiago, Order of.

Emblem, two two-handed swords in saltire Argent, hilted Or. Crest: A royal crown Or.

Emblema, dos mandobles en sotuer de plata, guarnecidos de oro. Timbrado de una corona real.

Emblem interpretation with: the two-handed swords placed along the diagonals of an imaginary rectangle, with a 5x6 proportion, like a shield, that is, with angles of 50.2°, between the axis of the two-handed swords and the imaginary base of the emblem, unlike the original emblem where the two-handed swords are on the diagonals of a square, therefore with angles of 45°; the two-handed swords and the closed royal crown are outlined in Sable, illuminated and the whole with a raised-stroke execution.

This emblem of the Royal Association of Hidalgos of Spain has 2 two-handed swords that, unlike usual swords, due to their great length and weight, their fencing must be two-handed, hence their name.

The Spanish word «mandoble» comes from «mano doble», meaning «double hand», and refers to a sword wielded with both hands, the equivalent of the English «two-handed sword».

It is known that they are two-handed swords because the 2 that appear in the emblem have a crescent or crossguard in their iron. This crescent is called in Castilian «falsaguarda» and also «ganchos de parada» and its functionality is to protect from the slashes that the opponent could give close to the blade of the two-handed sword.

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Blazon keywords: Two-handed sword, Argent, Hilted, Or, In saltire, Crest, Closed royal crown and Crown.

Style keywords: Illuminated, Outlined in sable and Freehand.

Classification: Interpreted, Socioeconomic and Emblem.

Bearer: Royal Association of Hidalgos of Spain.

Royal Council of the Orders of Chivalry, of Santiago, Calatrava, Alcantara, and Montesa.

Emblem quarterly per saltire: 1, a cross of Saint James; 2, a cross of Calatrava; 3, a cross of Alcantara; 4, a cross of Montesa.

Emblema cuartelado en sotuer: 1^o, una cruz de Santiago; 2^o, una cruz de Calatrava; 3^o, una cruz de Alcántara; 4^o, una cruz de Montesa.

Interpretation of the emblem of the Royal Council with: its four crosses outlined in Sable, illuminated in Gules, Vert, and Sable; and a heavily hammered metal finish.

There is another version of this emblem of the Royal Council with the crosses of its four orders of Santiago, Calatrava, Alcantara, and Montesa outlined in Or instead of Sable.

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Blazon keywords: Cross, Quarterly per saltire, Cross of Saint James, Cross couped, Cross of Calatrava, Cross of Alcantara and Cross of Montesa.

Style keywords: Illuminated, Outlined in sable and Freehand.

Classification: Interpreted, Socioeconomic and Emblem.

Bearer: Royal Council of the Orders of Chivalry.

Emblem of the Royal Spanish Academy

Emblemb Argent, a crucible Argent, enflamed and on a bonfire hoguera Gules and Or.

Emblema de plata, un crisol de plata, llameante y sumado a una hoguera de gules y oro.

Painted by me with a raised-stroke finish, with an oval shape and with a thin golden edge around it which is purely ornamental.

The Royal Spanish Academy, also known by its acronym RAE, is made up of 46 full members, all elected for life to occupy seats designated by letters of the Spanish alphabet.

In addition to the full members, the Royal Spanish Academy also has corresponding members and other associated members, which completes its structure as the main regulatory institution of the Spanish language.

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Categories: Institution, Interpreted, Socioeconomic, Oval, Illuminated, Outlined in sable, Freehand, Emblem, Without divisions, Argent, One, Crucible, Enflamed, Bonfire, Gules and Or.

Real Academia Española, «Diccionario de la lengua española», known as DRAE, acronym for Diccionario de la Real Academia Española, 22^nd edition, Espasa Calpe, Madrid, 2001.

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The DRAE's latest edition, the 23^rd, is from October 2014, but the current online version corresponds to the 22^nd edition with amendments incorporated until 2012.

This bibliographic reference is illustrated with one of my interpretations of the emblem of the Real Academia Española, with its crucible over a bonfire and its motto around it.

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Bibliographical reference of century XXI.

Classification: Dictionary and Castilian language.

The author is Royal Spanish Academy.

The following article cites this bibliographic reference:

• Cavalry Regiment Alcantara, royal crown

External link:

• Real Academia Española: Diccionario.

Real Academia Española, «Diccionario de la lengua española», known as DRAE, acronym for Diccionario de la Real Academia Española, 23^rd edition, Espasa Calpe, Madrid, 2014.

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This bibliographic reference of the DRAE is illustrated with one of my interpretations of the emblem of the Real Academia Española. Oval emblem with its crucible over a bonfire, surmounted by a closed Royal crown and its motto «Limpia, fija y da esplendor», around the emblem in letters of Or on Azure.

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Bibliographical reference of century XXI.

Classification: Dictionary and Castilian language.

The author is Royal Spanish Academy.

Bibliographical reference mentioned in the following article:

• Lozengy 5x6 and 6x7

External resource:

• Real Academia Española: Diccionario.

Emblem Azure, Saint Michael Argent, vested and nimbed Or, grasping in his dexter hand a spear Or, point downward, and in his sinister hand bearing [ Gules, a chain orlewise, crosswise, and saltirewise Or, charged in the fess point with an emerald Vert, of Navarre ], upon a dragon Vert, armed, langued, fanged, and the eyes Gules. Motto: «Universitas Studiorum Navarrensis».

Emblema de azur, un San Miguel de plata, vestido y nimbado de oro, teniendo en su diestra una lanza de oro, con la punta hacia abajo y en su siniestra trae [ escudo gules, una cadena puesta en orla, en cruz y en sotuer de oro, cargada en el centro de una esmeralda de sinople, de Navarra ], sostenido por un dragón de sinople, armado, lampasado, fierezado y encendido de gules. Divisa: «Universitas Studiorum Navarrensis».

Emblem interpreted as follows: oval in shape and more rounded than the original; the field illuminated in Azure; its charges illuminated in Gules, Vert, Argent, and Or, and outlined in Sable; the emerald represented by an enameled area Vert; and the whole emblem has a parchment-like finish.

The archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael are angels; therefore, I classify this emblem both under the category archangel and under angel, while Saint Michael himself is represented in it as a male figure.

Saint Michael the Archangel, in this representation, bears a shield which, at first, I blazon as the current coat of arms of Navarre, chains of gold, the original arms of Navarre being as blazoned in the armorial [Urfé; 15^th century; folio 142]: «Gules, a carbuncle Or pommelly, illuminated Vert in the centre in the manner of an emerald». This description does not suggest the presence of chains, but rather the rays of a carbuncle, nor an actual emerald, since what corresponds to the central umbo from which the rays of the carbuncle emerge is enameled Vert.

Due to my way of painting the arms of Navarre in profile, it stands halfway between a carbuncle and chains, with the outer links round like those of a chain, the central ones long like the rays of a carbuncle, and in the centre I have not drawn an emerald, but an enameled area Vert «in the manner of an emerald».

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Blazon keywords: Without divisions, Azure, Male figure, Angel, Archangel, Argent, Vested, Nimbed, Or, Grasping, Dexter, Spear, Point downwards, Sinister, Upon, Dragon, Vert, Armed, Langued, The fangs, The eyes, Gules and Motto (identification).

Style keywords: Oval, Illuminated, Outlined in sable and Parchment.

Classification: Interpreted, Socioeconomic, Education, Emblem and Kingdom of Navarre.

Bearer: University of Navarra.

Alonso Zamora Vicente, «Historia de la Real Academia Española», Real Academia Española, Espasa Calpe, Madrid, 1999.

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This bibliographic reference is illustrated with one of my interpretations of the emblem of the Real Academia Española. It is an oval emblem in Argent, with its crucible, also in Argent, over a bonfire of Gules and Or and surrounded by its flames, surmounted by a closed Royal crown with 8 arches, 5 of which are visible, and its motto, as originally written «Limpia, fixa, y da esplendor», around it.

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Bibliographical reference of century XX.

Classification: Castilian language.

Author: Zamora Vicente, Alonso.

The following article cites this bibliographic reference:

• Royal Spanish Academy, emblem

External link:

• Real Academia Española.