Post your family coat of arms!

[Graham]

Little - Borders clan from Meikledale
The Clan Crest badge is made up of the last chief, The Little of Meikledale's heraldic crest and motto
Arms of the Lairds of Meikledale were: sable a saltire argent
Meikledale's motto: 'Concedo nulli' or 'Fidei Coticula Crux'
Meikledale's crest: A demi lion Sable powdered with saltires Argent, armed Gules, in dexter paw a cutlass Proper and in sinister a saltire Argent.

[aefavant]

interesting, i love coats of arms. Actually I could add here quite a few crests but since only the head of the clan is allowed to "wear" the family arms, if I had to place here only one I'd go for a well known "sul cognome" crest - since it means the King presented the coat of arms not only to the noble but also to his family as a whole, as a token of admiration. Therefore, sul sognome my family it is

[Barreldriver]

My family has no authentic coat of arms, some folks advertise arms but I'm near certain that it's either a business scheme to lure in newbie genealogists or that if it is legit that it doesn't apply to my specific Reeder/Reader family from Yorkshire, we were after all just common folks.

[MachineHead]

[Fortis in Arduis]

Thank you, lei.talk, this is indeed the crest that my granny used.

We never had a coat of arms.

[Albion]

I believe in England coats of arms can only be granted to a person or maybe a family but I think they're to a person and not hereditary.

Personally I'd have the horse of Kent, bales of Cheshire and three lions of England - one each side and one above.





The shield of Kent may as well be my coat of arms, I have something in common with it.

[Arrow Cross]

Ironic dove is ironic, I know.

[Contra Mundum]

[Vasconcelos]

[Riki]

Its on one of the walls of the House where my Great-Great Grandfather use to live.
And its actually the oldest branch(As far as we know)of my family.

Some authors tell us that the nickname identified a family of Portuguese medieval nobility that may derive from a protonotary apostolic who lived in Portugal at the beginning of the thirteenth century, a Greek named Nicholas and Kosta. Other authors say so in the most remote origins and give it the time used by D. Afonso Henriques, some claiming that the name derives from the Quinta da Costa, in the district of Guimarães. Anyway, the first character that appears in Portugal is a well-documented Gonçalo da Costa, who in 1154 confirmed in writing of the Monastery of Semide Couto. To these belong the back of Soure earls and barons of the Big Island of Joanes. Therefore, the leadership of Costas, if not all of them, came to fall in the House of Silveiras, counts of Sortelha. The arms of the Costas are red, with six silver put back on three tracks and arranged in two peaks, wedged into the flanks of the shield. Timbre: two strands of silver passed in quotation marks and tied with red. The branch of Costas said lords strike, collaterally derived from the famous Cardinal D. Jorge da Costa, of the Coasts of Alpedrinha, broke those weapons with the "body" of the company that cardinal, who was ordered as follows: blue, with a wheel of Santa Catarina, armed with silver. Timbre: that of the Costas. Note that in the reasonable opinion of some of heraldry, the back of these weapons are not a representation of bone but of a type of cobbler knives and blunt curved blade, precisely called the "back".