Bourchier Quarterly & Quartered with Quarterly Lovayne Gules billetty d’or a fesse arg.
But if a chief can be arched I see no reason why a fesse or a bar cannot equally be so altered, and in that case it undoubtedly becomes a recognised line of partition.
Armorial bearings of Isham: Gules, a fesse wavy, and in chief three piles in point also wavy, the points meeting in fesse argent.
At the same time, it assumed the arms of the same distinguished family, or, a fesse dancette between three crosses crosslet fichee gules.
But the coat they bore or assumed was a goodly one and simple, and therefore ancient--or, in fesse five lozenges azure.
He, notwithstanding the protection of Athena, and after all his victories over fate, is still restless under the temptation to seek new wisdom.
On an ordinary, such as a fesse or cross, there should be at least two rows of checkers.
A fessewas often placed between two cheverons, as in the well-known arms of FitzWalter; or between two very narrow bars called cotises, or pairs of cotises called gemell bars.
For verely to cōfesse out of the herte/ that all benefites come of God/ euen out of the goodnesse of his mercie and not deseruinge of oure dedes/ is the only sacrifice that pleaseth God.
And with Ionas be aknowen of thy synne & cōfesse it & knowlege it vn to thy father.
Medieval armorists will describe his arms as a fesse indented of three indentures, as a fesse fusilly of three pieces, or as a fesse engrailed of three points or pieces, all of these blazons having the same value.
Where there are charges both upon and beside a bend, fesse or the like, a curious inversion is used by pedantic blazoners.
Rokesle's lions are azure in a golden field with a fesse of gules between them; while Wateringbury has six sable lions in a field of silver, and Tilmanstone six ermine lions in a field of azure.
Odingseles bore "Silver a fesse gules with a molet gules in the quarter.
But although early rolls of arms sometimes neglect this detail in their blazon, the fusils making a fesse must always be of an ascertained number.
The indented fesse on the red shield of the Dynhams has four such fusils of ermine.
Four, however, is almost as rare a number as three, the normal form of a fesse indented being that of five fusils as borne by Percys, Pinkenys, Newmarches and many other ancient houses.
If she had seen him she would have run straight to him without a thought, for he bore the red feathers in his helmet, and behind him, on the shield, danced in the glory of new gilt the fesse dancettée.
Next, with the butt of his spear, he battered out the cognizance on his shield till no fesse dancettée rippled there.
Did he bear a fesse dancettée upon his shield, a hooded falcon for his crest?
It is made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point.
These they do carye aboute with them / they reade them / and thoughe they beleue not / because they are blinded / yet do they cõfesse that these wrytinges are true.
This then remayneth for the to do: die / or flye for the gospell so shalt thou cõfesse the same indede.
A sword, a pair of polo-sticks, or still more often a cup, charged upon a fesse or band which divides the medallion, are badges of more local origin.
On the rood loft of the church are the arms of Sir Henry Arden:[440] Ermine, a fesse chequy, or and az.
Arderne, Sir Robert, Ermine a fesse or and azur, Warwickshire.
His arms were a Fesse chequy between three crescents impaling a chevron three stags.
The Heralds first tricked the arms of the Ardens of Park Hall, Ermine a fesse chequy or and az.
Shortly after that time he purchased the property of Longcroft, in the Manor of Yoxall, Staffordshire, and his descendants bear the fesse chequy, and are noted in another county history.
Argent, on a mount an oak-tree proper; over all a fesse sable, charged with three regal crowns proper.
Gules, a horse argent armed or, issuant from the sea in base, party per fesse wavy, azure and of the second.
Or, on a mount an oak-tree proper; over all a fesse gules, charged with three regal crowns proper.
When a Bend or Chevron is placed between two Cotises, or when a Fesse or Bar is placed between two Barrulets.
Two members of the family of Beauchamp charge their golden fesse (see Nos.
The early Heralds blazoned a “Fesse Dancette” as simply a “Dancette” or “Danse.
The rest of the field is generally divided per fesse into two tinctures, in most cases the livery colours of the owner, or the prevailing tinctures of his Coat of Arms, which in such cases may almost be assumed to have been his livery.
Or, a fesse doubly cotised (or, between two bars gemelles) az.
Fesse with a Pale, in its simplest form is set erect in the centre of the field, and it extends to the border-lines of the Shield.
Fesse and the Pale in every condition, except that it crosses the field diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base.
Party per fesse a pale counterchanged; on the first three doves each holding an olive branch.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fesse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
