Translations:AY Honors/Heraldry - Advanced/Answer Key/91/en

Originally, for the purposes of the tournament and the battlefield, heraldry was about the unique identification of those men who bore a coat of arms. Consequently, it has been heraldry’s abiding principal that no two coats are the same. Arms descend through the male line of a family and sons (‘cadets’) of an armigerous head of a family can use and display his arms. This immediately brings about duplication so here too heraldry demands a distinction – not only between the sons’ arms and their father’s but also between each of the son’s arms.