A treatise on ecclesiastical heraldry

A treatise on ecclesiastical heraldry

Author: Woodward, John, 1837-1898

Year: 1894

SYNOPSIS. PART I. CHAPTER I. Military Origin of Armorial Bearings — Their adoption for Secular Purposes — Seals, authentic and forged — Personal Effigies on Ecclesiastical Seals — Seals of Benedictine and Cistercian Abbots — Personal Arms introduced — The various kinds of Seals — Ancient gems — Arms of Sees and Abbeys, how composed — The Crosier, or Pastoral Staff — Ecclesiastical Foundations of the Kings of France — Arms of Italian Sees — Arms assumed — Preuves de Noblesse — Brisures, Marks of Cadency, or of Illegitimacy, in Ecclesiastical Arms — The Mitre as a Heraldic Charge — Series of Seals of the Benedictine Abbots of Molk — Arms on Ecclesiastical Vestments, etc. pp. 3 — 31 CHAPTER II. External Heraldic Ornaments, Spiritual and Temporal — The Coronet, its use on the Continent — The Temporal Sword — Helmets and Crests used by Ecclesiastics — Military Fiefs held by Ecclesiastics — The Church Militant — The Ecclesiastical Hat, etc pp. 32 — 38 CHAPTER III. ECCLESIASTICS BELOW ABBATIAL RANK. Arms in a Cartouche — The Biretta , and the Ecclesiastical Hat — The Chanter's Baton — Protonotaries — Canons and Chanoinesses — Noble Chapters — Their Insignia — The use of the Amess, or Amus