Heraldry and same-sex marriage

heraldoftumblshire:

runecestershire:

tjathurman:

The College of Arms has made new rules about heraldry in same-sex marriages. I thought a diagram might elucidate. Please feel free to share this around!

The Heraldry tag is positively exploding with this news. I’m really glad someone drew it up. (he didn’t cover the arms borne in pretence in the case of a woman whose wife is an heraldic heiress, but all the more common and important stuff is covered).

This is old news by now (well, old compared to news, it’s still very new heraldically), but very interesting and deserves another reblog.

I went into a bit more detail about what the language of the rules mean here.

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