Encyclopaedia Heraldica–Internet Armorial Project

Here's an older post on the origin of the "three crowns" symbol, currently the Swedish state arms. twitter.com/cool_shields/s…

Today is the birthday of His Majesty Carl XVI Gustaf, King of #Sweden. We send him our best wishes. In celebration, here are the Swedish royal arms.

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, recently passed away. May he rest in peace.

@OpvsEponymovs Greetings to everyone from Bongo

To mark St. Patrick's Day, here are the arms of Ireland, its four historical provinces, and a selection of the few county council arms which have been completed so far. #heraldry #StPatricksDay #Ireland

@PastaAndDrakes Not yet, but it should be pretty easy to make, being geometric.

@cool_shields By the way do you guys have an emblazon of the Calvert arms yet

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To show the progress that has been made on the project, here is an incomplete roll of the arms of the states and monarchs of Europe.

According to Loggail, the arms were designed to resemble opening a book about heraldry, because we are creating an encyclopedic roll of arms.

Our newly adopted coat of arms, designed by Loggail and emblazoned by Bongo. These arms are blazoned as: "Azure, a gore sinister argent, overall an escutcheon counterchanged."

While the Republic of North Macedonia does not have a heraldic national coat of arms, in 2009 arms of office of the President of North Macedonia were adopted, designed by members of the Macedonian Heraldic Society. heraldika.org.mk/en/news/grb-pr…

Today, 6 December, is Finland's Independence Day. Here are all of the Finnish national and subdivisional arms emblazoned as a part of the EH project so far.

@arm_yourselves @armez_vous pb_irl

Seeing arms designed by our community get adopted and appear on Wikipedia is like an unofficial rite of passage 😁

realized there havent been posts here in a while, here's some recently finished arms from the project (all finnish subdivisions, files by loggail) Finland Proper South Ostrobothnia Lappland Tavastia Proper

@Mich_GDL (or maybe they only started depicting the lion and sun on a shield when they were admitted to the Order of the Garter? not sure, but it continued after the Shahs of Iran no longer were members)

@Mich_GDL Abdul Medjid I and Abdul Aziz of the Ottoman Empire, Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, Naser al-Din and Muzaffir al-Din of Persia (already had arms)

Knights of the Order of the Garter have their heraldic devices displayed in St. George's Chapel. When the knight is a monarch from a country without traditional heraldry, their emblem is adapted into a coat of arms - with mixed results. One of the better examples is the arms<ctd>

and crest given to the Emperors of Japan, both of which use the Kikumon - a depiction of a chrysanthemum flower used as the Japanese Imperial Emblem.

Correction: the 1906 alteration removed some external ornaments, the 1964 alteration increased the number of stars, and the alteration that added the smoke was in 1998.

and the seven stars represent Costa Rica's seven provinces. After its initial adoption, the coat of arms was altered twice: in 1906, the stars representing the provinces were increased from five to seven, and in 1964 the volcanoes were given smoke. #heraldry

Today is the #DiaDeLaIndependencia of five Central American republics; Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Honduras. The focus of this post, Costa Rica, adopted its own national coat of arms in 1848, following the dissolution of the initial Central American state.