Heraldry Links and Heraldic Resources

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Heraldic links and Resources

This page aims to help you with finding more useful information on the heraldry topics covered on my site, as well as general heraldry links and links useful for collectors.

I will add commercial as well as non commercial links. However, I do ask a (small) fee for commercial links for a banner or image (5-10 Euro/month). For link suggestions or additions of commercial heraldic links click here.

Civic Heraldry Literature

General heraldry links

• College of arms (EN)
• Hoge Raad van Adel (NL)
• Araldica on-line (IT)
• Heraldry Society of Scotland (EN)
• The Court of Lord Lyon (EN)
• The American College of Heraldry (EN)
• The Russian College of Heraldry (EN)
• Heraldry Society of South Africa (EN/AF)
• Ukrainian heraldry (UA/EN)
• Ukrainian heraldry society (UA)
• A glossary of terms used in heraldry (EN)
• Heraldica civica et militaria (NL/EN)
• Swiss Heraldic Society (DE/FR/IT)
• Schweizer Wappen und Fahnen (DE)
• The public register of arms of Canada (EN/FR)
• GASO - La banque du blason (FR)
• Svenska Heraldiska Föreningen (SE)
• Macedonian Heraldic Society (MK/EN)
• Yorkshire heraldic society (EN)
• Societas Heraldica Scandinavia
• Middlesex Heraldry Society (EN)
• The Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry (EN)
• Chiltern Heraldry Group (EN)
• The Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies (EN)
• White Lion Society (EN)
• Heraldry Society (EN)
• City of Bath Heraldic Society (EN)
• Société française d'héraldique et de sigillographie (FR)
• Suomen Heraldinen Seura (FI)
• to South African Heraldry (EN)
• Heraldic Society Zum Kleeblatt (DE)
• The Society of Serbian Armigers “Milosh Obilich” (SR)
• Heraldry Society of New Zealand (NZ)

Commercial links

Heraldic clip-art (UA/EN)

Heraldisch atelier De Raaf (NL)

Civic heraldry links

• Armorial des communes de France (FR)
• Flags and arms of the modern era (HR/EN)
• Bayerns Gemeinden (Bavarian municipalities) (DE)
• Flags and arms in Serbia (EN/SR)
• Kommunale Wappenrolle Schleswig-Holstein (DE)
• Escudos de Aragon (ES)
• Magyarország település címerei (HU)
• Les blasons de Lorraine (FR)
• Brian Timms site on French heraldry (EN)
• Italian heraldry] (IT)
• Georgian heraldry (KA/EN)
• UK heraldry (EN)

Collector's links

• Heraldic Postcards (EN)
• Briefmarken mit Wappen und Fahnen (DE)
• Heraldryshop - Heraldic collector's items

Heraldic artists

• Society of Heraldic Arts
• Ronny Andersen (DK)
• Heraldic-Art (HR)
• Neil Bromley (UK)
• Piet Bultsma (NL)
• Marco Foppoli (IT)
• Laurent Granier
• Ljubodrag Grujic
• Baz Manning (UK)
• Srechko Nikitovich
• Harri Rantanen (FI)
• Nancy Rutland (US)
• Andrew Stewart Jamieson (UK)
• David Truzzi-Franconi
• Ioannis P. Vlazakis

Heraldic facebook pages

• Heraldry of the World
• Pro Heraldica
• Societas Heraldica Lundensis
• Српска хералдика/Serbian heraldry
• Instituto de Estudios Genealógicos y Heráldicos provincia de Buenos Aires
• Heraldry Society
• Heraldry Hall of Shame
• Ecclesiastical Heraldry Fan Club
• Emblems of the World
• Heráldica Portuguesa
• Česká genealogická a heraldická společnost v Praze
• Заставе и грбови Србије / Flags and Arms of Serbia
• Lancashire Family History & Heraldry Society
• Heraldry of Georgia საქართველოს ჰერალდიკა
• Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry
• South Australian Genealogy & Heraldry Society
• Heraldry News and Events brought to you by the White Shield
• Svenska Heraldiska Föreningen
• Canadian Heraldic Authority / Autorité héraldique du Canada
• Svenska Vapenkollegiet
• Societas Heraldica Scandinavica
• Bulgarian Heraldry and Vexillology society
• Македонско Хералдичко Здружение

Collection of links (copied from David Appleton)

• "Heraldry Revived" by Oswald Barron (1902)
• "The beginnings of heraldry in the Civil War" by Col. Ralph R. Burr
• 15th Century English Patents of Arms
• A Plea for American Heraldry (1868)
• Alphabetic List of Heraldic Terms
• An Illustrated Dictionary of Heraldry
• Araldica On Line (links to Italian heraldry sites)
• Armorial Gold's Heraldry Dictionary
• Arms of Danish Noble Families (in Danish)
• Biblioteca Heráldica (in Spanish)
• British Brass Rubbings
• Coat of Arms Visual Designer
• Early American Bookplates (many heraldic)
• Fifteenth Century English Patents of Arms
• Funerary Procession of Sir Philip Sidney 1587
• Great Seals of State (England)
• Heraldiker Stellen Sich Vor
• Heraldry (by Brian Timms)
• Heraldry of the Church
• Heraldry Today (new and used books)
• Heralds Visitations
• Heralds Visitations and the College of Arms
• History and Art in the coats of arms of the Popes
• *[http://www.qmfound.com/heraldry_in_the_civil_war.htm
• Héraldique européenne
• King René's Tournament Book
• Kunst und Kultur der Wappen
• Modern Armorial Bookplates
• Nova Heroldia (in Polish)
• Pimbley's Dictionary of Heraldry
• Puncher Heraldry Program
• Seb Nelson's Heraldry Articles
• The Canadian Heraldic Dictionary
• The Cyber Journal of Heraldic Bookplates
• The Edward IV Roll
• The Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland 1672-1907
• The Public Register of Arms, Flags and Badges of Canada
• The Ridgeley Family Coat of Arms

On-Line Armorials and Ordinaries

• A Magyar Országos Levéltár adatbázisai (Hungarian arms)
• A Roll of Early American Arms
• An Armorial of Famous Musicians
• An Ordinary of Arms (Scotland) (1893)
• Arkistolaitos Arkivverket (Finnish heraldry with search feature)
• Armorial Brasileiro
• Armorial du Saint-Empire (Armorial of the Holy Roman Empire)
• Armorial Families, Vol. 1 (A.C. Fox-Davies)
• Armorial Families, Vol. 2 (A.C. Fox-Davies)
• Armorial Général (Rietstap)
• Armorial Général de France (d'Hozier) (1696)
• Arms of the Popes (in Russian)
• Basel Land Cantonal Archives: Family Coats of Arms
• Beispiele aus Conrad Grünenberg's Wappenbuch
• Blasonario Piemontese
• Coats of Arms from Ireland and around the World
• Coats of Arms of Families of France
• Comune di Siena
• Conseil Français d'Héraldique
• Crozier's General Armory
• De Inscriptiones van Aernout van Buchel
• De Monumenta van Aernout van Buchel
• e-codices: Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland (search "wappenbuch")
• Early and Europeans Rolls of Arms
• Escutcheons of Science
• Euraldic.com
• Famiglie Nobili di Sicilia
• Flags and Arms of Serbia (in English)
• Heraldry of the World (was International Civic Heraldry)
• Heratlas: Atlas d'héraldique française
• Héraldique européenne
• Ingeram Codex, or Codex Cotta (1459)
• Irish Register of Grants of Arms 1936-1980
• Kleine Salzburgische Chronik (1624)
• Köldererrolle (1512-13)
• Le Grande Armorial de la Toison d'Or
• Luzerner Familienwappen
• Manesse Codex (1305-1340)
• Matthews' American Armoury and Blue Book
• Medieval Armorials
• Papworth's Ordinary Vol. I
• Papworth's Ordinary Vol. II
• Recorded Arms for Campbell
• Siebmacher's Wappenbuch (1701)
• The Book of Public Arms (Fox-Davies)
• The Chinese Armorial
• The Civic Heraldry of France
• The Livery Companies Database
• The Public Register of Arms, Flags, and Badges of Canada
• Three rolls of arms of the latter part of the thirteenth century
• Ukrainian Heraldry (in English)
• Virginia Heraldica (Crozier)
• Wapenboek Beyeren (ca. 1405)
• Wappen= und Handbuch
• Wappenbuch der Katharina von Nassau-Dillenburg
• Wappenregister der Roland Wappenrolle Berleberg
• Wappensamlung der Gemeinschaft wappenführender Familien
• Zurich Roll of Arms
• Zurich Roll of Arms Redrawn, with Blazons

Military Heraldry Websites

• Air Force Historical Research Agency (U.S.)
• Exército Português (Portuguese Military Heraldry)
• RAF Squadron Badges
• Stemat nE UshtrinE Shqiptare (Albanian Military Heraldry)
• The Institute of Heraldry (U.S.)
• U.S. Army Patches
• U.S. Naval Ships Coat of Arms

On-Line Heraldic Clipart

• Armory Blanks
• Brickbat's Armorial Stash (25mb zip file)
• Clipart ETC.: Heraldry
• Clipart ETC: Heraldry: Complete Coats of Arms
• Free Clipart Heraldry Imagery
• Free Heraldic Clipart
• Griffin d'Or - Heraldic Charges (12mb zip file)
• Griffin d'Or - Shields and Ordinaries (6mb zip file)
• Pennsic Traceable Art Project
• Shareware Clip Art Collection (from Don Phillips)