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Published March 2025. The Deeds of King Henry V, or in Latin Henrici Quinti, Angliæ Regis, Gesta, is a first-hand account of the Agincourt Campaign, and subsequent events to his death in 1422. The author of the first part was a Chaplain in King Henry's retinue who was present from King Henry's departure at Southampton in 1415, at the siege of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt, and the celebrations on King Henry's return to London. The second part, by another writer, relates the events that took place including the negotiations at Troye, Henry's marriage and his death in 1422.

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Heraldry, Terms, Ordinaries

Ordinaries is in Terms.

Heraldry, Terms, Ordinaries, Bendlet

Joicey Arms. Argent three lozenges Sable within two bendlets invected gules between two miners' picks in bend proper. Source.

Nelson Arms. Or, a cross flory sable a bendlet gules. Source.

Fret. Two narrow bendlets placed in saltire, and interlaced with a mascle. A fishing-net?.

Heraldry, Terms, Ordinaries, Bendy

Bendy is a pattern of diagonal stripes (bendlet), running from top-left to bottom-right.

Heraldry, Terms, Ordinaries, Crusilly

Crusilly. Sprinkled. Similar, if not the same as Semée.

Beresford Arms. Argent, crusilly fitchée sable, three fleurs-de-lis within a bordure engrailed of the second. Source.

Heraldry, Terms, Ordinaries, Orle

Orle. A border around the edge of the shield composed of charges.

Brownlow Arms. Or an escutcheon within an orle of martlets sable. Source

Valence Arms. Barry of argent and azure, an orle of martlets gules. Source.

Heraldry, Terms, Ordinaries, Pale

Pale. Vertically. Usually a vertical stripe, sometimes an animal.

Brandon Arms. Barry of ten argent and gules, a lion rampant or ducally crowned per pale of the first and second. Source.

Plantagenet Arms. Gules, three lions passant guardant in pale or armed and langued azure. Source.

Giffard Arms. Gules Three lions passant guardant or in pale or.

Normandy Arms. Gules, two lions passant guardant in pale or armed and langued azure. Source.

Strange Arms. Argent, two lions passant in pale gules. Source.

Heraldry, Terms, Ordinaries, Semée

Semée. Seeded like the field being sown.

Brunswick Luneburg Arms. Per pale, I gules two lions passant guardant or (for Brunswick), II or a semy of hearts gules a lion rampant azure (for Lunenburg).

Clifton Arms. Sable semée of cinquefoils and a lion rampant argent. Source.

Darcy Arms. Azure semée of cross crosslets argent, three cinquefoils of the last. Source.

France Ancient Arms. Azure semy-de-lis or. Source.

Holand Arms. Azure, semée-de-lys argent, a lion rampant. Source.

Pierrepoint Arms. Argent, semée of cinquefoils gules, a lion rampant sable. Source.

NO IMAGE. Azure semée of fleur-de-lys or, a lion rampant argent. Source.

Heraldry, Terms, Ordinaries, Tressure

Tressure. A subordinary. A line or two lines forming a border. Possibly a diminutive of the orle.

Heraldry, Terms, Ordinaries, Double Tressure

Heraldry, Terms, Ordinaries, Double Tressure Flory

Duke Atholl Arms. Earl Atholl Arms overall, an inescutcheon en surtout azure three mullets argent within a double tressure flory or ensigned of a Marquess's coronet. Source.

Bowes Lyon Arms. Quarterly 1&4 Argent a lion rampant azure, armed and langued gules within a double tressure flory counter-flory of the second (for Lyon); 2&3 ermine three bows stringed palewise in fess proper (for Bowes).

Marquess Zetland Arms. Dundas Arms within a double tressure flory counterflory gules, all within a bordure azure. Source.

Dunkeld Arms. Or a lion rampant gules armed and langued azure a double tressure flory counter-flory gules.

Murray Arms. Azure, three mullets argent, within a double tressure flory counter-flory or. Source.

Earl Roseberry Arms. Quarterly, 1&4 vert, three primroses within a double tressure flory counter-flory or (for Primrose); 2&3 argent, a lion rampant double queued sable (for Cressy). Source.

Stewart Royal Arms. Or a lion rampant gules armed and langued azure within a double tressure flory counter-flory of the second.

Heraldry, Terms, Ordinaries, Vair

Vair describes the pattern made frrom squirrel furs.

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