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Heraldry, Terms, Field, Sable

Sable is in Field.

Wodehouse Arms. Sable a chevron or between three cinquefoils. Source.

Lewis Arms. Sable a chevron or three fleur de lys or. Source.

Loftus Arms. Sable, a chevron engrailed ermine, between three trefoils slipped argent. Source.

Bonville Arms. Sable, six mullets argent pierced gules. Source.

Mosley Arms. Sable a chevron between three pickaxes argent. Source.

Browne Arms. Sable a bend sable cotised three lions rampant argent. Source.

Newton Arms. Sable, a skull and crossbones argent. Source

Oldham Arms. Sable, a chevron or between three owls argent on a chief of the second three roses gules. Possibly an example of canting arms where owl represents owl-dam. Source.

Paget Arms. Sable, on a cross engrailed between four eagles displayed argent, five lions passant guardant of the field. Source.

Conway Arms. Sable, on a bend cotised argent a rose gules between two annulets of the first. Source.

Palmer Carlton Arms. Sable a chevron or three crecents argent. Source.

All About History Books

The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.

Dymoke Arms. Sable, two lions passant in pale argent ducally crowned or. Source.

Parker Arms. Sable, a stag's head cabossed between two flaunches argent. Source.

Paulet Arms. Sable three swords pilewise points in base proper pomels and hilts or. Source.

Griffin Arms. Sable, a griffin segreant argent beak and forelegs or. Source.

Peyton Arms. Sable, a cross engrailed or a mullet in the first quarter argent.

Hood Arms. Sable, on a fess argent between three leopards passant guardant or spotted of the field as many escallops gules. Source.

Ridgeway Arms. Sable, a pair of wings conjoined and elevated argent. Source.

Jermyn Arms. Sable, a crescent between two mullets in pale argent. Source.

All About History Books

The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.

Riley Arms. Sable, on a pile or three crosses formy fitchy at the foot sable. Source.

Rous Arms. Sable, a fess dancetté or between three crescents argent. Source.

Ayscough Arms. Sable, a fess or, between three asses passant argent, maned and unguled of the second. Source.

Segrave Arms. Sable, a lion rampant argent, crowned or.

Buller Arms. Sable, on a cross argent quarter pierced of the field four eagles displayed of the first. Source.

NO IMAGE. Sable, a fess cotised between three martlets or. Source.

Compton Arms. Sable a lion passant guardant or between three Esquire's Helmets argent. Source.

Spelman Arms. Sable, ten plates between two flaunches argent.

Foljambe Arms. Sable a bend between six escallops or.

Stourton Arms. Sable, a bend or between six fountains. Source.

Hobart Arms. Sable, an estoile of six points or between two flaunches ermine.

All About History Books

The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.

Kitson Arms. Sable three fishes hauriant in fess argent a chief or. Source.

Bridgeman Arms. Sable, ten plates, four, three, two, and one, on a chief argent a lion passant ermines. Source

Hovell Arms. Sable, a crescent or.

Lascelles Arms. Sable a cross patoncé within a Bordure or. Source.

Greville Arms. Sable a cross in a border Engrailed or with five roundels sable on the cross. Source.

All About History Books

The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.

Vaughan Arms. Sable a chevron between three fleurs-de-lys argent. Source.

Coventry Arms. Sable a fess between three crescents or. Source.