IHGS Heraldic Challenge October 2024.
This month’s challenge again calls for the use of a well-known Ordinary of Armorials. Simply identify the principal family associated with each of the coats blazoned below then, using the county name provided, pinpoint a property with which a branch of each family was connected historically. Finally, identify the common status of these properties.
Entries should be submitted to Chris Broom (ihgstutorchris@gmail.com) by 31st October 2024. The winner will enjoy free entry to an IHGS tutorial of their choice.
1. Arg. a cross engr. gu. betw. four bougets sa. - Yorkshire
2. Sa. an eight-pointed estoile or. betw. two flaunches erm. - Norfolk
3. Sa. a fess wavy betw. two polar stars arg. - Devon
4. Gu. semy of crosses crosslet three lucies hauriant arg. - Warwickshire
5. Arg. a fess gu. betw. six Cornish choughs ppr. - Surrey
6. Or on a fess az. three garbs of the first in chief a cross crosslet fitchy gu. - Worcestershire
7. Arg. on a bend sa. three popinjays or beaked and legged gu. - Derbyshire
8. Arg. a chev. gu. betw. three roses of the last seeded or. leaved vert. - Somerset
9. Erm on a cross gu. five bezants. - Cornwall
10. Per pale az. and gu. three lions ramp. arg. - Montgomeryshire
