Label (heraldry)

The tournament collar is known in heraldry as additional motif.

Use

He finds both common figure, as well as a herald image using. He is also referred to as a bank, bar, rake or bridge. The viewer should be the image of the tournament collar imagined as a stylized, side bridge view. The " piers " are named as bibs and usually there are three. Four or five are possible. The tournament collar is usually depicted in the coat of arms floating in chief. Also, there are several coat of arms with collar. The hanging in the church flag Hängel are no bibs. Also from crest to crest rim edge is in use. The tinctures are machined from the plate color. The heraldic color rule but ignoring. The function of the tournament collar is not necessarily additional motif in many coats of arms. The circulation in the arms as additional motif is used to identify for the son and distinction as otherwise the same coat of arms of the Father.

In France and in England that sign is widespread. So the tournament collar is in the English Heraldry with roses, lilies, hearts and heraldic animals or other common figures.

List of Arms with tournament collar

Bad Honnef, Bell ( at Mendig ), Elbe (Lower Saxony), Ash ( Gerolstein ) Fensdorf, grass village ( Holle ), Grimburg, Hellenthal, Kölbingen, county volcanic Eifel, Lebach, Mechernich, Merchweiler, fair Rich, Oberlinxweiler, Oberreifenberg Prambachkirchen, Ritzerau, Rommerskirchen, sending ( Westphalia), Sillium, Spabrücken, Stolberg (Rheinland), Wipperfuerth, Zweibrücken

  • Von Westphalen
  • Of Schaesberg
  • Laar

Examples

  • Suspended with three Lätzen
  • Obliquely placed with three Lätzen
  • Obliquely placed with four Lätzen
  • With four Lätzen in chief
  • With five Lätzen
  • Suspended with five Lätzen
  • With five Lätzen on Limburger lion
  • Wahld Berger Tournament collar
Cadency Chief (heraldry) Charge (heraldry)#Animals Bell, Mayen-Koblenz Elbe, Lower Saxony Esch, Vulkaneifel Messerich Senden, North Rhine-Westphalia
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