Football Heraldry

Here is an image made by one of our Junior Members showing some of the coats of arms of Scottish football teams. It would be good if some of our other Junior Members might show us something of the heraldry of other sports or the football teams of other countries. Here is the coat of arms of Queen's Park FC to which Ross refers:

Battle of Bannockburn 1314

Competition 2: Closing Date June 30th

On the 23rd and 24th June, Scotland will celebrate the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn, outside Stirling. The protagonists were Robert the Bruce (Robert I of Scotland) and Edward II of England.

A full account of the battle can be found HERE.

Your job is to identify the owner of each of the shields and say to which army the bearer belongs.

Clan Motto Competition

Here is new anthem for the Heraldry Society of Scotland: the words are all taken from mottoes.

Competition 1 is to identify the owner of each motto and to translate it into your own language.

Nemo me impune lacessit,

Nil sine labore,

Sic transit gloria mundi,

Via veritas vita

Nobilis est ira leonis

Ora et labora

Corda serrata pando

feros ferio

Tak tent o'armes, Tak tent o'armes,

Tak tent o'armes,

In medio virtus stat.

Sola virtus nobilitat

Fortiter et recte

Virtutem coronat honos

Praesto ut praestem

Sub sole sub umbra virens

Nunquam non paratus

Audentes fortuna juvat 

Fortitudine

chorus: Tak tent o'armes, Tak tent o'armes,

Tak tent o'armes,

In medio virtus stat.

Welcome to the Junior Section of the Heraldry Society of Scotland

The HSS has a small but enthusiastic number of Junior Members in Scotland, England, Italy and Germany and would welcome many more.

Once a month, sometimes oftener, a competition will appear on this page with an interesting book as a prize: have a go at them, they are supposed to be fun and I hope they are!

In the meantime, Junior Members are encouraged to send in photographs of heraldry which they have taken themselves. To start us off, here is a photograph taken by our young member, Julian Tristan of Bavaria, of the Spanish galleon. Neptune in harbour at Genova. The ship was rebuilt for Roman Polanski's film Pirates.