Palings formed defensive walls around settlements, camps, and forts.
It represents great military or defensive strength and is derived from the word “pale,” meaning a sharpened stake driven into the ground. The “pale” is a vertical stripe that runs down the center of the shield. As such, right and left are reversed in descriptions. In heraldry, the design is described from the perspective of the beholder rather than the viewer. Although sometimes used for aesthetic reasons, there are also significant meanings attached to some of the designs. Heraldic Ordinaries The Combat of the Thirty by Octave Penguilly L’Haridon, 1857, depicts a scene from 1351 during the War of the Breton Succession when two teams of knights took to the field in an organised melee via Īpart from the heraldic colors, heraldic ordinaries are popular “charges” that are simple geometric designs that run from side to side, corner to corner, or top to bottom on the shield. These patterns were often used on their own without any devices. Supplementing these five heraldic colors are two “metals.” Gold is represented with yellow and is referred to as “or,” while silver is represented with white and is referred to as “argent.” The rule is that these two “metals” can be placed on any of the heraldic colors, but never on each other.Īlong with the heraldic colors are patterns known as “furs” that were often used. These additional colors are called “stains.” In addition to these five heraldic colors, there are several additional colors that have been used historically, but not as often as the other five.
An example of some of the patterns or “furs” used in heraldry, via
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