medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Hi Chris,
You wrote:
>as i implied before, if you've got a family with the moniker "malesherbes"
it's hard to see how they did *not* use that as their emblem during battle.
I'm afraid it did not work like that. People, but especially knights, had
all kinds of names and nicknames (and maybe cognomens) but that almost never
resulted in the image suggested bij this name being included in a coat of
arms: these usually consisted of different numbers and kinds of stripes,
animals like lions, birds like eagles etc. The kind of devices clans or
families used, usually animals or plants, did not make into shields or even
crests. They kept being used as separate signs until late in the early
modern times (like in Scotland). So no: plantsymbols were not heraldry and
so weren't used as cognizances in battle.
Henk
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