Raguly

Vert, a pall raguly Or between three leopards' faces Or. Crest: Upon a wreath Or and Vert, on a coronet Or a leopard's face Or between two wings Sable. Motto: «Inter feros» in letters Sable within a scroll Argent.

Escudo de sinople, una perla ecotada de oro entre tres cabezas de leopardo de oro. Timbrado de un burelete de oro y sinople surmontado de una corona de oro surmontada de una cabeza de leopardo de oro acompañada de dos medios vuelos de sable. Lema: «Inter feros» de sable sobre una filacteria de plata.

Freehand finishing.

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Blazon keywords: Vert, One, Pall, Raguly, Or, Three, Head, Leopard, Crest and mantling, Wreath, Above, Crown, Between, Two, Wing, Sable and Motto.

Style keywords: Freehand, Pointed and Outlined in sable.

Classification: Coat of arms, Interpreted and Personal.

Bearer: Stowe, Richard Allen.

Publication of my interpretation of the arms of Ugnius Mikucionis, on the blog Twelve Lineages of Soria with the article titled: The eminent heraldist Mr. Antonio Salmerón Cabañas interprets the coat of arms of Ugnius Mikucionis (Lithuania and Norway).

Blazon in Spanish by Alfonso de Ceballos-Escalera y Gila, Chronicler of Arms of Castile and León, from his certification of arms: «Vert, a Latin cross made of a wooden staff, raguly, from whose sinister flank issues a leafy branch that encircles the cross from above and entwines over its base, all Or. Crested with a steel helmet affronty, torse Or and Vert, with mantling Vert doubled Or. For crest, the same raguly Latin cross, branched and leafed, Or, placed before two wings Vert».

Blazon in English by The South African Bureau of Heraldry, from its certification of arms: «Vert, a wooden staff, its upper end terminating in a Latin cross, raguly, couped at random, issuant from its sinister nombril point a leaved offshoot encircling the cross, its end terminating and debruising the lower limb Or. Crest: In front of a pair of wings displayed Vert, a wooden staff issuant, its upper end terminating in a Latin cross, raguly, couped at random, issuant from its sinister nombril point a leaved offshoot encircling the cross, its end terminating and debruising the lower limb Or. Wreath and mantling: Vert and Or». I do not agree with the specification of the exact place of origin of the branch, the «nombril point» ~ «navel», because that point of origin does not distinguish this coat of arms from another where the branch could emerge at a different height, either closer or further from the point of the shield, and because it forces the artistic interpretation to either break the rule of fullness or to draw a curved branch in a panache shape to allow it to open before gaining height.

Note how in the Spanish certification of arms, by the Chronicler of Arms of Castile and León, this unnecessary nombril specification as the origin point of the branch is omitted.

The nombril is the exact crossing point of the vertical axis of symmetry of the shield with the lower edge of the bend.

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Categories: Link, Vert, One, Cross, Raguly, Sinister, Or, Helm, Wreath, Mantling, Crest, Two, Wing and At the nombril.

Root: Twelve Lineages of Soria.

Azure, a bend sinister raguly between, in dexter chief, a Celtic cross, in sinister base, a sword point downwards Argent. Crest: Upon a helm affronty with a wreath Argent and Azure, a pair of Polish hussar wings, feathered alternately Azure and Argent. Mantling: Azure doubled Argent. Motto: «Per Iustitiam Victoria» Sable, with initial letters Gules, over a scroll Argent.

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Blazon keywords: One, Bend sinister, Raguly, Between, Dexter, Chief, Celtic cross, Sinister, Base (lower 1/3), Sword, Point downwards, Argent, Crest and mantling, Helm, Mantling, Wreath, Crest, Polish winged hussar, Two wings in vol, Feathered, Alternately and Motto.

Style keywords: Outlined in sable, Semi-circular, Illuminated and Rough.

Classification: Personal, Interpreted, Coat of arms and Latin language.

Bearer: Reyes, Elijah.

Azure, fretty raguly Or.

Escudo de azur, un fretado ecotado de oro.

Coat of arms interpreted with: a semicircular (round) base; the field in plain Azure tincture, shaded by the fretty and with a raised-stroke finish; and the lattice of cut branches outlined in Sable and illuminated in beaten gold metal.

The American College of Heraldry

The arms of David Robert Wooten, as he himself recounts on his website davidwooten.com were registered on 6 November 1992, with number 1,073, in The American College of Heraldry, an institution of which he is a platinum patron. The registered blazon was «Azure, fretty raguly Or», with fretty ~ fretado and raguly ~ ecotado, which in English I have also seen written as knotted.

Lema ~ motto

Of his complete achievement I have here limited myself to interpreting his shield and his motto «Melior nullo nullus melior» which can be translated from Latin as «no soy mejor que nadie, pero nadie es mejor que yo»

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Blazon keywords: Without divisions, Azure, Fretty, Raguly and Or.

Style keywords: Semi-circular, Outlined in sable, Plain tincture, Illuminated, Shaded, Freehand and Metal beaten.

Classification: Interpreted, Personal and Coat of arms.

Bearer: Wooten, David Robert.

Azure, a bend sinister raguly between, in dexter chief, a Celtic cross, in sinister base, a sword point downwards Argent. Motto: «Per Iustitiam Victoria» Sable, with initial letters Gules, over a scroll Argent.

Escudo de azur, una barra ecotada acompañada, en la diestra del jefe, de una cruz celta y, en la siniestra de la punta, de una espada bajada todo de plata. Lema: «Per Iustitiam Victoria» de sable, con letras iniciales de gules, sobre una filacteria de plata.

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Blazon keywords: One, Bend sinister, Raguly, Between, Dexter, Chief, Celtic cross, Sinister, Base (lower 1/3), Sword, Point downwards, Argent and Motto.

Style keywords: Outlined in sable, Semi-circular, Illuminated and Rough.

Classification: Personal, Interpreted, Coat of arms and Latin language.

Bearer: Reyes, Elijah.

Azure, two trunks of a tree raguly, couped at random, in saltire Argent; a bordure compony of sixteen sections, eight sable charged with a castle triple-towered Or, port, windows, and masoned Sable, and eight Argent

Escudo de azur, dos troncos ecotados, nudosos, en sotuer de plata; una bordura componada de dieciseis compones: ocho de sable cargados de un castillo de oro, aclarado y mazonado de sable, y ocho de plata

Illuminated and a leather finishing.

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Blazon keywords: Without divisions, Azure, Two, Trunk, Raguly, In saltire, Argent, One, Bordure, Compony, Sixteen, Section, Eight, Sable, Charged, Castle, Or, Port and windows and Masoned.

Style keywords: Leather, Outlined in sable, Illuminated and Semi-circular.

Classification: Personal and Interpreted.

Bearer: Espinosa, Diego.

Vert, a pall raguly Or between three leopards' faces Or. Crest: Upon a wreath Or and Vert, on a coronet Or a leopard's face Or between two wings Sable.

Escudo de sinople, una perla ecotada de oro entre tres cabezas de leopardo de oro. Timbrado de un burelete de oro y sinople surmontado de una corona de oro surmontada de una cabeza de leopardo de oro acompañada de dos medios vuelos de sable.

Watercolor finishing.

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Blazon keywords: Vert, One, Pall, Raguly, Or, Three, Head, Leopard, Crest and mantling, Wreath, Above, Crown, Between, Two, Wing and Sable.

Style keywords: Illuminated, Freehand, Pointed and Outlined in sable.

Classification: Coat of arms, Interpreted and Personal.

Bearer: Stowe, Richard Allen.

Vert, a Latin cross, raguly, issuant from its sinister a leaved offshoot encircling the cross, its end terminating and debruising the lower limb Or.

Arms depicted by me, in flat tinctures, contoured in Sable, with a pointed outer contour and with a texturized finish.

Coat of arms of Ugnius Mikučionis-Vizgirda emblazoned by me using a ratio of 2/3 between its width and height.

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Blazon keywords: Vert, Or, One, Latin cross, Raguly, Issuant, Sinister, Leaved, Branch, Environed and Debruised.

Style keywords: Outlined in sable, Plain tincture and Pointed.

Classification: Personal, Interpreted, Boa and Coat of arms.

Bearer: Mikučionis-Vizgirda, Ugnius.

Vert, a Latin cross, raguly, issuant from its sinister a leaved offshoot encircling the cross, its end terminating and debruising the lower limb Or.

Coat of arms interpreted by me, highlighted with lights and shadows, outlined in Sable, with a pointed outer contour and with a freehand finishing.

Coat of arms of Ugnius Mikučionis-Vizgirda emblazoned by me using a ratio of 5/8 between its width and height. The 8/5 = 1.6 ratio between the height and width of this version of the shield closely approximates the well-known golden ratio (1.618).

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Blazon keywords: Vert, Or, One, Latin cross, Raguly, Issuant, Sinister, Leaved, Branch, Environed and Debruised.

Style keywords: Outlined in sable, Illuminated, Pointed and Freehand.

Classification: Personal, Interpreted, Boa and Coat of arms.

Bearer: Mikučionis-Vizgirda, Ugnius.

Azure, fretty raguly Or.

Escudo de azur, un fretado ecotado de oro.

Coat of arms interpreted with: a semicircular (round) base; the field in plain Azure tincture charged with the shadow of the lattice; and the fretty with cut branches illuminated in Or, outlined in Sable and with a beaten metal finish.

Fretado ~ fretty

[Avilés, J.; 1780a; página 94] describes fretado, which he writes with a double «t» as «frettado», as «se dice del Escudo y de las piezas principales cubiertas de cotizas, ú de bastones, cruzados, y entrelazados, en sotuer, que dexan espacios vacíos iguales en forma de Losanjes, y su figura es enrexada, como una celosía» and it can indeed also be found defined with the term «celosía» and, in turn, I have seen it written as «celosiado», and of all of them I have settled on the term «fretado» from José de Avilés, but with a single «t».

[Avilés, J.; 1780a; página 228] defines fretes, which he writes with a double «t» as «frettes», as «no son otra cosa, que las Cotizas, que forman el cuerpo del Frettado, que es quando un Escudó se compone de seis Cotizas, tres en Banda, y tres en Barra, que enlazadas las unas en las otras, dexan unos intervalos, como Losanges de diferente esmalte, que tienen lugar de campo».

Ecotado ~ raguly

[Avilés, J.; 1780a; página 75] writes on the term ecotado or in the plural ecotados that «se dice de los troncos, y ramas de los Árboles, quando parecen cortados los ramos menores, como en La Cruz de Borgoña.».

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Blazon keywords: Without divisions, Azure, Fretty, Raguly and Or.

Style keywords: Semi-circular, Outlined in sable, Plain tincture, Illuminated, Shaded and Metal beaten.

Classification: Interpreted, Personal and Coat of arms.

Bearer: Wooten, David Robert.