The smiling father sports a rifle nestled at his hip and wears a hat emblazoned with a coat of arms. |
A lot of the artists who designed the knights coat of arms often used imaginary animals like the basilisk, dragon, unicorn, etc. |
By the later Middle Ages, the right to a coat of arms had become a matter for social pride and strict control. |
The town is on the site of an important river crossing, where there is a masoned bridge, as shown on the municipal coat of arms. |
He had a delicately masoned stone plaque built into a wall by the fortress bearing his coat of arms and the year of construction. |
In older illustrations of Penang's full coat of arms, the torse under the tree is of the 6 twist variety. |