Worksheet for Home-Schoolers - DRAGONS

 Here be dragons! Home-schoolers alert: Heraldry is full of gruesome monsters and fantastical beasts. Today's worksheet looks at DRAGONS. https://courtofthelordlyon.scot/Beasts1Dragons.pdf

Archbishop Philip Tartaglia RIP

 It is with great sadness that we record the sudden death today of Most Rev. Philip Tartaglia, Metropolitan Archbishop of Glasgow. Today, January 13th is the Feast of St Mungo, Patron Saint of the Archdiocese.

May he rest in peace.

Project for home-Schoolers

 Here is a contribution to the materials for Home-Schoolers - good luck to both the children and the supervising adults!

This unit is free-standing and deals with CRESTS. 

https://courtofthelordlyon.scot/HeraldicActivity1Crests.pdf

Heraldry for the Self-Isolator Index

In case it helps anyone Home-schooling, here is last year's Heraldry Course for the Self-Isolator again!

Heraldry for the Self-Isolator

H4tSI is now completed for the moment, but we will leave these up for a while longer as we all emerge gradually from lock-down like moles blinking in the light.

Week 1: Week beginning March 30th 2020
1.  The component parts of an achievement of arms:
2.  The tinctures, fesses. lions rampant, blazonry, lions to colour in
3.  Divisions of the field, dexter and sinister, brass rubbings to colour in
4.  Roundels, crosses, other heraldic charges to colour in
5.  Week one Quiz and recommended weekend viewing

Week 2: Week beginning April 6th 2020
1.   700th Anniversary of the Declaration of Arbroath - Seals
2.   Making a Difference, unicorns to colour in.
3.   Coronets of Rank, Sudoku 1, Word-search 1 (Heraldic Terms)
4.   Canting Arms, crossword, Sudoku answer, heraldic anagrams, colour in wyverns etc
5.   Quiz; Suduko 2

Week 3: Week beginning April 13th 2020
1.   The Royal Arms 
2.   Hatching and tricking.
3.   Animals, erased, couped, cabossed.
4.   Heraldry and Women.
5.   Quiz, sudoku on charges and crossword.

Week 4: Week beginning April 20th 2020
1.   Church Heraldry
2.   Funeral hatchments.
3.   Insignia of Office.
4.   Heraldic Beasts 1: The Gryphon
5.  The Badges of Officers of Arms

Week 5: Week beginning April 27th 2020
1.   The Regional Councils 1973-1995
2.   The Island & City Councils 1973-1995
3.   The District Councils of  the quondam Borders, Central, and Dumfries and Galloway Regions.
4.   The District Councils of the quondam Regions of Fife, Grampian, Lothian and Tayside.
5.   The District Councils of the quondam Highland Regional Council

Week 6: Week beginning May 4th 2020
1    The Incorporated Trades of Glasgow
2.   The Incorporated Trades of Aberdeen
3.   The Incorporated Trades of Stornoway, Edinburgh, Dundee and Linlithgow. 
4.   The Merchant Guilds of Scotland
5.   V.E. Day Holiday

Week 7: Week beginning May 11th 2020
1.   Supporters - tenants
2.   Supporters - supports
3.   Supporters - soutiens
4.   Golf Club Heraldry
5.   More Golf Clubs and Puzzles

Week 8: Week beginning May 18th 2020
1.  Strathclyde former District Councils 1 answers to Friday's puzzles.
2.  Strathclyde former District Councils 2
3.  Strathclyde former District Councils 3
4.  The Royal Burgh compartment
5.  Lines of Partition and Crossword

Molendinar Lecture 2021

 The annual Molendinar Lecture of the Mediaeval Glasgow Trust will be delivered online this year by Falkland Pursuivant Extraordinary, Roderick Alexander Macpherson.

His topic will be: Coinage & Coining It in Glasgow.

The talk will be given over Zoom and you can register for it HERE:

https://mediaevalglasgow.org/event/molendinar-lecture-2021-coinage-coining-it-in-glasgow

Mediaeval Glasgow Trust

 The Lord Lyon took part today in a seminar with Rev. Mark Johnstone, Minister of Glasgow Cathedral, and Gordon Wylie WS on "Signs and Symbols - Glasgow's Coat of Arms" promoted by Mediaeval Glasgow Trust.

New Grant of Arms

 The Lord Lyon has granted arms to Malcolm John McNair Edmiston. The blazon is: 

Parted per chevron Gules and Argent, three crescents all counterchanged, on a chief tierced in pale, first and third Argent, a Jerusalem cross Gules, and in second Gules, a Jerusalem cross Argent. 

Volume 93 folio 106.

The artist is Maggie Spalding. 

Lyon to Lecture at St Mungo Festival

 The Lord Lyon will give an online lecture on "Signs & Symbols: Glasgow’s Coat of Arms" on Saturday 9th January at 1.30 p.m. The lecture is free but you have to register for it here: https://mediaevalglasgow.org/events

A new Grant of Arms

 The Lord Lyon has granted arms to Colin Stanley McGregor.

The blazon is: Argent, a chevron Azure in chief two pairs of battle-axes in saltire Proper, in base a sword in bend surmounted of an oak tree in bend sinister Proper, the former supporting on its point an antique crown Gules. The artist is Annette Reed.

Volume 94 folio 72.

A puzzle from the Society of Scottish Armigers

 Dwyer Wedvick, of the Society of Scottish Armigers, has set a little puzzle for the New Year. 

It can be found here: 

http://www.scotarmigers.net/ssagallery/displayimage.php?album=21&pos=44

Happy Epiphany!

 Happy Epiphany! Here are the purported arms of the Magi as depicted in the 16th century Forman-Workman manuscript at the Lyon Office.

From our Files 150 years ago

 From our files 150 years ago: Andrew Rutherfurd, advocate, nephew of Lord Advocate Lord Rutherfurd: Argent an orle and in chief three martlets Gules, all within a bordure ermine.

Crest: A mermaid holding in her dexter hand a mirror and in her sinister a comb all Proper.

Happy New Year