Snawdoun Herald is attending the 33rd International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences in Arras and gave a paper on military references in Scottish heraldry through the ages.
The arms she uses here to illustrate this are those of James Gibson-Craig, recorded in 1823. The blazon is: Quarterly, first and fourth Ermine on a fess Sable three crescents Argent (Craig), second and third Gules three keys bar-wise wards downwards Or (Gibson).
Crest: a chevalier on horseback in full carriere grasping a broken lance in bend proper
Supporters: Dexter: a chevalier armed as of the fifteenth century, holding in his dexter hand a spear proper; sinister: a horse rampant barbed proper.
Other HSS members giving papers include our quondam Chairman, Alex Maxwell Findlater, who spoke on "The rise of lesser families in the wake of the Settlement of 1328."; Adrian Ailes whose paper was on "Symbols of Military Might and Magnificence in War and Peace."; Paul Fox, who spoke on "Peace through heraldry : the utilisation of the Canterbury cloister as an instrument of reconciliation in the aftermath of a period of civil war in early fifteenth century England."; Antti Matikkala whose paper was on "Karelia – the old battle field – in the twentieth-century. Finnish provincial, corporate and personal heraldry."; while Ronny Andersen spoke on "The Emergence of Heraldic Insignia in the Danish Army, c. 1945-1950." Joseph McMillan spoke on "The Great War and the Revolution in American Military Heraldry" and David Appleton on "Camels In Heraldry: Symbols In War and Peace."
