Snawdoun Herald is attending the 33rd International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences in Arras and gave a paper on military references in Scottish heraldry through the ages.
The arms she uses here to illustrate this are those of James Gibson-Craig, recorded in 1823. The blazon is: Quarterly, first and fourth Ermine on a fess Sable three crescents Argent (Craig), second and third Gules three keys bar-wise wards downwards Or (Gibson).
Crest: a chevalier on horseback in full carriere grasping a broken lance in bend proper
Supporters: Dexter: a chevalier armed as of the fifteenth century, holding in his dexter hand a spear proper; sinister: a horse rampant barbed proper.
Crest: a chevalier on horseback in full carriere grasping a broken lance in bend proper
Supporters: Dexter: a chevalier armed as of the fifteenth century, holding in his dexter hand a spear proper; sinister: a horse rampant barbed proper.
