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BLAZONING OF THE ECKERT COAT OF ARMS
BLAZON (Wappen der Familie Eckert):
ARMS (Shield):
Azure upon a bend or three roses gules
CREST (Helmet):
A rose as in the arms
MANTLE (Decken):
Not deScribed (Mantling is seldom deScribed and usually takes the Tinctures of the Shield)
MOTTO:
None recorded (It is rare for the German Achievement to deScribe a motto)
REFERENCE SOURCE:
ARMS (Shield) INTERPRETATION:
Azure - (Means the Shield is Blue (Azure = Blue))
upon a Bend or (Means "something" to be deScribed later, which is Golden (Or = Gold),
will be added to a wide diagonal stripe (top to bottom, left to right))
three Roses gules - (Means the "something" that is put upon the wide stripe is 3
Red (Gules = Red) Roses (Heraldic Roses, of course))
CREST (Helmet) INTERPRETATION:
A Rose as in the arms - (Means a Rose just like the ones in the Shield was deScribed to
be affixed by the Torse (wreath of cloth with 6 twists, alternating between the primary tinctures) together with
the Mantling, to the Helmet, which is drawn in Profile with the Visor closed, or with no Visor nor Grilles - the
kind used by a "Bürgerliche" (Esquire/Commoner/Citizen))
SYMBOLISM:
Bend - (Defense or protection)
Rose (Red) - (Grace and beauty)
Colors:
Azure (Blue) - (Loyalty and truth)
Gules (Red) - (Military fortitude and magnanimity)
Or (Gold) - (Generosity)
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