| On top of it, the blue banner with golden lion as heraldry of Central Kingdom flew. |
| Some of the designs were very simple and graphic, looking like the two-headed eagles of heraldry, and some were much more elaborate. |
| Some armigers are reluctant to use their heraldry as they feel that to do so may seem somewhat pretentious. |
| Now, heraldry is one of the quaint, meaningless traditions that so enthralls Yanqui Anglophiles like myself. |
| The martlet in French heraldry is called the merlette, represented by a swallow, depicted without legs, and later usually. without a beak. |
| He is an authority on medieval heraldry and a professor of history at the Sorbonne. |
