Cadency
Additional motif (breakage, double brisure ) signs are in the coat of arms, which serve to distinguish lines of divided or to indicate younger birth and spurious origin (the latter only in the western nations ).
- 5.1 House of Savoy
- 6.1 Royal Family
- 7.1 Royal Family
Germany
In Germany the additional motif were created in very diverse ways, for example by reducing the helmet clothing nodes or the tincture, by multiplication, reduction or mutilation of the figures. The most important figurative additional motif that occur as such in Germany are, for example:
For female offspring, there is no additional motif in German heraldry.
Wires in England and France
In England and France, the arms of the families differ by so-called Brisuren. There are the tournament collar, bias yarns or shelves. They show the membership in the type and position to the family branch. Also the intrusion is one of them. In England, the occupancy of the tournament is spread collar with mean figures for further differentiation / crest improvement. For the differentiation of the individual family lines small identical pieces (hearts, diamonds, small trays ) are placed in sign. They are considered in this case as additional motif.
British Royal Family
French Royal Family
Bulgaria
The Prince of Bulgaria led the son of Prince Alexander of Hesse from not coequal marriage the Hessian lion with the tournament collar as additional motif.
Special
The characteristic feature of the Beizeichens is that the removal of the same coat of arms does not change, but rather restores the original shape. The figure in question appears independently on (such as quite often the tournament collar), so it is not an additional motif, but the main image. It has also sphragistische additional motif, which have the purpose to distinguish two the image and the size after similar types of seal by a falling into the eyes feature.