![]() 1275): porte d'or ou ung lev'er de gules, ou le collere de sable ou le bordure de sable besante dor (i.e.: or a hound gules collared sable, a border sable besanty or). It is often shown gorged or collared.Īn early example of a blazon involving a dog ( levrier) is that of Sir Perez Burdeux in Walford's Roll (Harley MS. ![]() The ears, tongue and claws may be in different tinctures. Īttitudes of the hound may be sejant, rampant, salient (its hind feet on the ground), passant (trippant), skipping, courant (sometimes blazoned "in full chase" or "in full course") or questing (i.e. German heraldry distinguishes three variants of dogs: Windhund (greyhound), Bracke and Rüde (also Dogge). Similar charges include the wolf and the fox. ![]() The "sea-dog" is a curious charge resembling the talbot but with scales, webbed feet and a broad tail, used in the arms of Stourton barony, presumably originally depicting a beaver (as used in the Coat of arms of Oxford). Rarely seen variants are the ratch-hound, the mastiff ( alant or aland ), the foxhound, the spaniel and the terrier. A barrister by profession, Fox-Davies worked on several notable cases involving the peerage, and also worked as a journalist and novelist. 1 His Complete Guide to Heraldry, published in 1909, has become a standard work on heraldry in England. in the arms of Wolseley of Staffordshire, the greyhound and bloodhound. Arthur Charles Fox-Davies (28 February 1871 ) was a British expert on heraldry. In English heraldry, the commonly used variant are the talbot, also blazoned as sleuth-hound, e.g. ![]() The hound or dog (also levrier, leverer French lévrier dogue, chien) is used as a charge in classical heraldry. Coat of arms of Baldeck (a baronial family of Württemberg) in Scheiblersches Wappenbuch (15th century) ![]()
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