Heraldic Design by Hubert Allcock

Author:Hubert Allcock
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780486153940
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2012-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Cadency: The Inheritance Line

Escutcheon of Pretense

These marks have been used since the fourteenth century to indicate within a family the seniority of its different members by male descent.

A tincture not employed in the arms is recommended for cadency marks, and these marks are normally much smaller in proportion to the entire shield than drawn here.

Illustrated is the English sequence of marks of cadency. (A Scottish sequence is still in use, but it tends to become quite complicated, even for the professional herald, to say nothing of the descendants of long-lived Scotsmen.)

The heir or first son uses the label; the second son, the crescent; the third son, the mullet; the fourth son, the martlet; the fifth son, the annulet; the sixth son, the fleur de lis; the seventh son, the rose; the eighth son, the cross moline; and the ninth son, the double quatrefoil (not shown). Heraldry provides no cadency marks beyond the ninth son.

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