Achievement (heraldry)
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An achievement (or armorial achievement or heraldic achievement, historical: hatchment) in heraldry is a full display of all the heraldic components to which the bearer of a coat of arms is entitled.[2] An achievement comprises not only the armorials themselves displayed on the Escutcheon, the central element, but also the following elements surrounding it:
- Crest placed atop a:
- Torse (or Cap of Maintenance as a special honour)
- Mantling
- Helm of appropriate variety; if holder of higher rank than a baronet, issuing from a:
- Coronet or Crown (not used by baronets), of appropriate variety.
- Supporters (if the bearer is entitled to them, generally in modern usage not baronets), which may stand on a Compartment)
- Motto, if possessed
- Order, if possessed
- Badge, if possessed
Coat of arms
Sometimes the term coat of arms is used to refer to the full achievement, but this usage is wrong in a strict sense of heraldic terminology.[3][4]
Hatchment
"It is agreed that every knyght within the yere of his stallation shall cause to be made a scauchon of his armes and hachementis in a plate of metall suche as shall please him and that it shall be surely sett upon the back of his stall".
See also
References
- โ Planche, J.R., Pursuivant of Arms, 1851, p.xx
- โ Boutell, Charles & Charles Fox-Davies, Arthur (1914), The handbook to English heraldry, Reeves & Turner, p. 100, "Achievement, or Achievement of Arms. Any complete composition of Arms."
- โ A.G. Puttock, A Dictionary of Heraldry and Related Subjects, Exeter 1985. Blaketon Hall. ISBN 0 907854 93 1. P. 40
- โ Stephen Friar (ed.), A New Dictionary of Heraldry, London 1987. Alphabooks/A&C Black. ISBN 0 906670 44 6. P. 96.
- โ Collins Dictionary of the English Language, London, 1986
- โ Larousse Dictionnaire de la Langue Francaise, Paris, 1979: "lat. pop. capum, class. caput
- โ Round, J. Horace, Family Origins and Other Studies, Page, William, (ed.), London, 1930, pp.174-189, The Garter Plates and Peerage Styles, p.174
External links
- "What is an Achievement?". http://www.antirheralds.org: An Tir College of Heralds. Archived from the original on 20 April 2011. Retrieved 2011-05-16. "An 'achievement' is a full formal display of a coat of arms."
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