CLASS Arms


The Armory is divided into 13 classes in Herald:
 
1 .- Sovereignty.

Those who hold the sovereign Kingdoms and the regions have.


2 .- Application

Sovereigns have weapons of governing the country, besides the weapons of the country or land they believe to be right.


3 .- Community.

Arms are used by Kingdoms, States, Republics, Provinces, Cities, Universities, Bishops, congregations, and so on.
These communities can be secular or religious. States, cities and provinces are secular communities.
The archbishops, bishops, parishes, religious orders, monasteries, seminars, guilds, church communities are examples of

4 .- Alliance.

Corresponds to the weapons that are added to a lineage, barracks with them, to distinguish the families that have been related through marriages or other alliance.

5 .- Grant.

Armeria are newly determined to achieve some noble rank or real grace.

6 .- Trustees.

Added to the arms race because of charges it is a sign of jurisdiction or law.
As an example, we have the governors of provinces of the Kingdom, the Viceroys, and mayors in charge of the custody or protection of any strength.

7 .- Succession.

Arms that are inherited, are legacies and donations.

8 .- Family.

Are those that belong to a lineage, and are used to distinguish it from other lineages.

9 .- Enquerir weapons or Enquerre.

Its meaning in French is to inquire, investigate, find out. The Armory that contradict the rules of heraldry, such as that should never be put color on color or metal on metal, or should be investigated to find out, because this is one of the heraldic laws that should never be violated.

10 .- Armas Speaker.

Armeria are using figures which are related to the surname. It is used in meaningful names, such as names of animals, trees, ( "De Leon", "Rosales." Etc.).

A historical example we have with Ricardo Plantagenet, King of England, known as Ricardo "Lionheart", had three lions on his shield.

11 .- Loaded.

Weapons are to be charged or added to any piece or is contained in a reward of valuable service rendered by the holder.

12 .- defame or discharged.

It is the opposite of this: when the guns are the download, or some special signal is given in part as punishment for some dishonorable act committed by or shortly honorable holder.

For example: during the average age of mercy towards the defeated enemy was a rule of honor, anyone who had killed a prisoner of war, being unarmed, he was punished by cutting the tip of her coat.

  13 .- Brisas.

Arms are leading some brisura added. The Brisura is an adaptation of the French, "broken" and that changes the coat that plasma. The brisuras consist of parts that are added to the Armory for a distinguished lineage in the secondary lines and the bastard of the first-line, and legitimate.

The head of the eldest male line, the Mayorazgo use of weapons that are pure and flat to the house. The eldest son used the same coat as the successor of his father.

The second son, third and subsequent, if any, are required to "breeze" to distinguish them from their arms which correspond to the main line. These "brisuras" are usually put in the canton of the shield law or in the center of the head.

We reserve the left flank and Guangzhou for the bastards that are further required to "breeze" their weapons as legitimate children.

Something important to remember is that can not be used as "brisuras" the parts that come into the national coat of arms or real, as in France the lily, in Germany the eagles can not be used, leopards and lions in England and castles in Spain.