Blazon

A Blazon is a way of representing a coat of arms through a long series of words.

Blazons often use words derived from French so they are hard to understand for English speakers. For example blue is called azure and white is called argent

If you have a blazon you can draw a coat of arms from it.

• Azure, a bend or. A coat made famous by the medieval court case Scrope v. Grosvenor.
• Party per pale argent and vert, a tree eradicated counterchanged. Arms of Behnsdorf.
• Argent, an eagle displayed gules armed and wings charged with trefoils Or. Arms of Brandenburg.
• Quarterly 1st and 4th Sable a lion rampant on a canton Argent a cross Gules; 2nd and 3rd quarterly Argent and Gules in the 2nd and 3rd quarters a fret Or overall on a bend Sable three escallops of the first and as an augmentation in chief an inescutcheon, Argent a cross Gules and thereon an inescutcheon Azure, three fleurs-de-lis Or. Arms of Churchill.^[1]

• website that generates coats of arms from blazons

1. ↑ Courtenay, P. The Armorial Bearings of Sir Winston Churchill Archived 2013-07-18 at the Wayback Machine. The Churchill Centre.