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Heraldry, Terms, Charges, Chief

Chief is in Charges.

Chief. The Chief is the uppermost part of the arms occupying around one third of the arms.

NO IMAGE. Argent, a chief vairy or and gules a bend sable. Source.

Acheson Arms. Argent, a double-headed eagle displayed sable, beaked and membered or, on a chief vert, two mullets or. Source.

Kitson Arms. Sable three fishes hauriant in fess argent a chief or. Source.

Clement Arms. Argent, two bendlets wavy sable on a chief gules three leopard's faces or a bordure compony or and azure. Source.

Dormer Arms. Azure, ten billets or 4,3,2,1 issuant from a chief of the second a demi lion rampant sable langued gules.

Babington Arms. Argent, ten torteau in chief a label three points azure. Source.

Chichester Arms. Chequy or and gules, a chief vair. Source.

Mortimer Arms. Barry or and azure, on a chief of the first two pallets between two base esquires of the second over all an inescutcheon argent. Source.

Narborough Arms. Gules, a chief ermine. Source.

Palmer Arms. Or, two bars gules each charged with three trefoils of the first in chief a greyhound currant sable. Source.

Berkeley Arms. Gules a chevron between ten crosses pattee six in chief and four in base argent.

Heraldry, Terms, Charges, Chief Argent

Bacon Arms. Gules, on a chief argent two mullets pierced sable. Source.

Heraldry, Terms, Charges, Chief Azure

Chaplin Arms. Ermine a chief azure three griffin's heads erased or.

Clinton Arms. Argent, six cross crosslets fitchée sable three two and one on a chief azure two mullets or pierced gules. Source.

NO IMAGE. Argent, on a chief azure three mullets of the first.

Saluzzo Arms. Argent, a chief azure. Source.

Weston Arms. Ermine, on a chief azure five bezants.

Heraldry, Terms, Charges, Chief Gules

Around 1577 George Gower (age 37). Portrait of Richard Drake (age 42). The heraldic escutcheon shows seven quarters as follows:

1: Drake of Ash Arms. Drake of Ash in the parish of Musbury, Devon.

2: Argent, on a chief gules three cinquefoils of the first; Billet of Ash.

3: Gules, on a fess argent two mullets sable; Hamton of Rockbere and Ash.

4: Ermine, on a chief indented sable three crosslets fitchee or; Orwey of Orwey and Ash.

5: Barry of seven argent and sable.

6: Azure, six lions rampant argent crowned Gules, 3, 2, 1; Forde of Forde.

7: Argent, two chevrons sable (Esse/Ash of Ash); Esse or Ash of Ash.

Manners Arms. Or, two fess azure a chief gules.

St John Arms. Argent, a chief gules two estoiles or. Source.

Tailboys Arms. Argent, a saltire gules in chief gules three escallops argent. Source.

Tennant Arms. Argent, two crescents in fess sable on a chief gules a boar's head couped of the first. Source.

Worsley Arms. Argent, a chief gules. Source.

Heraldry, Terms, Charges, Chief Indented

Around 1577 George Gower (age 37). Portrait of Richard Drake (age 42). The heraldic escutcheon shows seven quarters as follows:

1: Drake of Ash Arms. Drake of Ash in the parish of Musbury, Devon.

2: Argent, on a chief gules three cinquefoils of the first; Billet of Ash.

3: Gules, on a fess argent two mullets sable; Hamton of Rockbere and Ash.

4: Ermine, on a chief indented sable three crosslets fitchee or; Orwey of Orwey and Ash.

5: Barry of seven argent and sable.

6: Azure, six lions rampant argent crowned Gules, 3, 2, 1; Forde of Forde.

7: Argent, two chevrons sable (Esse/Ash of Ash); Esse or Ash of Ash.

Butler Arms. Or, a chief indented azure. Source.

NO IMAGE. Or, a chief indented azure, a crescent for difference. Source.

Harsick Arms. Or, a chief indented sable.

Lathom Arms. Or, on a chief indented azure three plates. Source.

Perceval Arms. Argent, a chief indented gules three crosses pattee of the field. Source.

Heraldry, Terms, Charges, Chief Or

Heraldry, Terms, Charges, Chief Sable

Preston Arms. Or, a chief sable three crescents or.