The story behind Heraldry The word "heraldry", the Old German origin, meaning the army or the host. He also managed to say the person who announced a marching army, or could identify its major components, such as knights, their method of fighting, and in particular their record of success in all things very important for a commander before taking the risky decision to the battle begins.
The first heralds evolved almost entirely from traveling troubadours, who went to Europe entertain nobles with songs and stories. They acted as messengers or ambassadors, and they were free to come and go like fun, even across national borders, work in progress to see what other nobles rise up to. On their travels they wore a bib that was decorated with coat of arms of their master, which guaranteed them safe passage and protection. An attack on the Herald was considered an act of war against his master.
The Troubadours had the skills to read and write, and they had the capacity to store a large amount of detailed information on the various lords and knights of the encounter. They were always welcome in any house, they were presented as they provided both news and entertainment, reciting stories about who they met on their journey.
They record the personal data on the knights and lords and fortifications, and the colors and images displayed on flags and shields, to share this information with other wandering minstrels. In this way, they build a file compression of large families and their associated heraldic insignia.
During the Battle of the troubadours would be required to brief commanders on the identity and the struggle against the qualities of the opposition, constantly moving between areas, identifying combat units that were either coming or to go beyond the battlefield. They also made the task of identifying the dead and prisoners. Many captured a noble attempt to impersonate an ordinary soldier to avoid being fleeced. The troubadour can usually identify them. And they have often acted as deputy commander in chief, making the spot on the changes to the battle scenes. On the troubadours jumped three modern professions, the herald, the ambassador, and the Army staff officer.
The term Coat of arms comes from the cloak worn by a knight on his bulletproof vest. On sunny days, the armor does get very hot, and cold days, it was freezing, hence the need for a blanket coat-like covering. The colors of the knight were replicated to facilitate this identification, hence the term Coat of Arms.
A ridge of high has been covered a knight's helmet, a boar's head or wood, or a tight gauntlet. He was there to make more visible to others while on the battlefield, and at the same time to make him seem more impressive.
The motto is a saying associated with a particular family, which later became attached to heraldic memorials.
The oldest known example of a heraldic shield type Norman was found on a tombstone in the Alsace region in France, it is dated 1010AD.
Heraldry as we know across Europe to Germany, and was introduced into England by the Normans in 1066, eventually found his way to Ireland soon after. The beginning of Norman / English Coats of arms originally done fairly simple geometric designs, and later came images of lions, deer, castles and Armament.
When the Norman style of representing Heraldry reached Ireland, he began to draw on images that already in the country, pictures that always came back thousands of years in the distant past, images like the tree of life (the oak), or the salmon of wisdom, and the serpent of good health.
Former Irish and Greek and Roman civilizations all considered the Oak Tree of Life, which stems from a belief structure similar vein on the back of each oak leaf. Ancient Celtic inaugurations were held with the n.
Posted on April 8, 2010.