Q. I want to get a tattoo of my coat of arms. My last name is lex and I did a little research but i dont know if it's the wrong coat of arms picture. I really need help so I can get the for sure one. Please help!
A. I have a tattoo, but just one. Mine commemorates a journey of 16,000 miles and two years of service in the Peace Corps. It is a traditional design from the Ibans, the largest tribe in the district where I served. (They were sometimes called "Sea Dayaks".) There is more of a story behind it than "My buddies and I didn't have anything to do . . ."
Somewhere in this vast land of ours is at least one 14-year old who is wishing as hard as she can that she get a tattoo of Justin Bieber. Think about how she will feel in 2021. Think about your tattoo.
Here's what I usually paste when you kids ask about a family coat of arms.
(Crests are the top part of a Coat of Arms.)
Your family coat of arms is carved into the oak above the fireplace in the dining hall of your family's country estate. The next time you go there for the grouse season, go look at it, and take your camera. If you don't have one, you don't have the other; sorry. Your ancestors were like mine, mucking out the pigs while the aristocrats with coats of arms rode by on white horses. (Until they moved to what became the USA. Some of my ancestors saw aristocratic Brits on white horses there, too, but it was over the sights of their rifles, in 1776.)
House of names -
http://www.houseofnames.com
will probably show you a Coat of Arms, with a crest, that was (probably) once issued to someone with the same surname as yours, BUT:
Coats of arms started so knights could tell each other apart when they were buttoned up in their suits of armor. They were given to individuals, not families. If, for instance, every knight named Smith used the same coat of arms, there would be a small army riding around with identical shields. It would be as confusing as a basketball game where both sides wore blue and every player was number 12.
The legitimate children inherit their father's Coat of Arms. They may alter it in a number of ways. See
http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/About/12.htm
for more. It gets REALLY complicated with women. See below for some opinions.
That's where the myth of a "Family" Coat of arms comes from. People who sell T-shirts and coffee mugs, however encourage the gullible to believe Coats of Arms are for a surname. (The Irish and Scots have clans, which have badges, which are different.)
Below:
If your surname is Smith and you come from Shropshire, you may find that Sir Albert Smith, Sir Bruce Smith and Sir Charles Smith, all from Shropshire, all had C of A. If you do your research, you may find you descend from Sir Charles. If your last name is Smith, you may descend from exclusively male descendants. Now comes the question - Is using his coat of arms proper? Opinions differ.
Some say it is like demanding "your" room in the ancestral Smith estate in Shropshire, from the current owners - ridiculous and illegal.
Some say it is like wearing a Regimental tie if you didn't serve in that regiment. (Land's End sells those by the thousands to Americans. I would never buy one.)
Some say it is like wearing a Scotch Plaid shirt when you don't belong to that clan. (LL Bean sells tens of thousands of those; I have "Lindsay", myself.)
Some say it is as harmless as wearing a Detroit Tigers baseball cap when you didn't play for the team, or a UC Berkeley T-shirt when you didn't attend the University. (Or an Ohio State one, but as long as you're going to wear a University T-shirt, why not the finest?) (I have a UC Berkeley T-shirt, but I graduated from there.)
So, there's the facts and some opinions about using a "Family" coat of arms. You can make up your own mind, after you do your research.
Somewhere in this vast land of ours is at least one 14-year old who is wishing as hard as she can that she get a tattoo of Justin Bieber. Think about how she will feel in 2021. Think about your tattoo.
Here's what I usually paste when you kids ask about a family coat of arms.
(Crests are the top part of a Coat of Arms.)
Your family coat of arms is carved into the oak above the fireplace in the dining hall of your family's country estate. The next time you go there for the grouse season, go look at it, and take your camera. If you don't have one, you don't have the other; sorry. Your ancestors were like mine, mucking out the pigs while the aristocrats with coats of arms rode by on white horses. (Until they moved to what became the USA. Some of my ancestors saw aristocratic Brits on white horses there, too, but it was over the sights of their rifles, in 1776.)
House of names -
http://www.houseofnames.com
will probably show you a Coat of Arms, with a crest, that was (probably) once issued to someone with the same surname as yours, BUT:
Coats of arms started so knights could tell each other apart when they were buttoned up in their suits of armor. They were given to individuals, not families. If, for instance, every knight named Smith used the same coat of arms, there would be a small army riding around with identical shields. It would be as confusing as a basketball game where both sides wore blue and every player was number 12.
The legitimate children inherit their father's Coat of Arms. They may alter it in a number of ways. See
http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/About/12.htm
for more. It gets REALLY complicated with women. See below for some opinions.
That's where the myth of a "Family" Coat of arms comes from. People who sell T-shirts and coffee mugs, however encourage the gullible to believe Coats of Arms are for a surname. (The Irish and Scots have clans, which have badges, which are different.)
Below:
If your surname is Smith and you come from Shropshire, you may find that Sir Albert Smith, Sir Bruce Smith and Sir Charles Smith, all from Shropshire, all had C of A. If you do your research, you may find you descend from Sir Charles. If your last name is Smith, you may descend from exclusively male descendants. Now comes the question - Is using his coat of arms proper? Opinions differ.
Some say it is like demanding "your" room in the ancestral Smith estate in Shropshire, from the current owners - ridiculous and illegal.
Some say it is like wearing a Regimental tie if you didn't serve in that regiment. (Land's End sells those by the thousands to Americans. I would never buy one.)
Some say it is like wearing a Scotch Plaid shirt when you don't belong to that clan. (LL Bean sells tens of thousands of those; I have "Lindsay", myself.)
Some say it is as harmless as wearing a Detroit Tigers baseball cap when you didn't play for the team, or a UC Berkeley T-shirt when you didn't attend the University. (Or an Ohio State one, but as long as you're going to wear a University T-shirt, why not the finest?) (I have a UC Berkeley T-shirt, but I graduated from there.)
So, there's the facts and some opinions about using a "Family" coat of arms. You can make up your own mind, after you do your research.
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