Difference between revisions of "Coats of Arms of Westarctica"

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The arms maintain much of the symbology found on the previous arms, and also incorporates new elements. The shield featured on the center of the arms is the same shield that has been used by the Clan McHenry since the 1600s, and was re-created from the arms found on the 1824 tombstone of Daniel McHenry. It is believed these arms were originally granted to James McHenry, Esq. by King Charles I of England.
The arms maintain much of the symbology found on the previous arms, and also incorporates new elements. The shield featured on the center of the arms is the same shield that has been used by the Clan McHenry since the 1600s, and was re-created from the arms found on the 1824 tombstone of Daniel McHenry. It is believed these arms were originally granted to James McHenry, Esq. by King Charles I of England.


The blazon for the shield goes thus: ''Quarterly, in the first and fourth blue-céleste, with a cross or, a crown dexter argent, in the second and third azure, snowflakes semé proper, over all an inescutcheon of the fourth, a fess of the third, between three pelicans vulning, wings addorsed and inverted of the third.''
The blazon for the shield goes thus: ''Quarterly, in the first and fourth blue-céleste, with a cross or, a crown dexter argent, in the second and third azure, six snowflakes argent, over all an inescutcheon of the fourth, a fess of the third, between three pelicans vulning, wings addorsed and inverted of the third.''


[[Category: Symbols of Westarctica]]
[[Category: Symbols of Westarctica]]