International Heraldry - Acknowledgements

This website is maintained by its authors, James McDonald and Sophie Duncan, of Castles and Manor Houses Inc, contactable at the email address at the foot of this page.

It was created in 2010 and last updated in May 2011.

The authors assert their copyright over all material on the website, except where explicitly indicated. They are particularly grateful to the individuals and organisations listed below for permission to use copyright material, as indicated in the body of the website.

The site was created in 2010 and last updated in May 2011.

Credits

Brian Timms www.briantimms.net
Studies in Heraldry (now including a Glossary of Terms Used in French Civic Heraldry) is an excellent and authoritative heraldry website, including a number of rolls of arms among much else.

We gratefully acknowledge permission to reproduce 90 coats of arms from Brian Timms' website, mainly to illustrate basic heraldry conventions and terminology using modern renderings of blazons of medieval examples.

Andrew Stewart Jamieson - www.medieval-arts.co.uk
Andrew is an heraldic artist. We are grateful for permission to reproduce examples of his beautiful and striking artwork.

Martin S. J. Goldstraw - http://cheshire-heraldry.org.uk

Martin has created colour illustrations of Arms blazoned in the The Vale Royal of England first published by Daniel King in 1656, and The Cheshire Visitations from 1533 to 1580 and in 1613. We are grateful for permission to reproduce examples of his hansome artwork from this excellent online resource.

International Association of Amateur Heralds - www.amateurheralds.org

The International Association of Amateur Heralds exists only in cyberspace. It is composed of people from twenty-three nations. The Association's mission is promotion and education in the fields of the art and science of heraldry. The website includes a members' roll of arms. We are grateful for permission from Geoff Kingman-Sugars of the International Association of Amateur Heralds to reproduce selected images from the roll.

Wikipedia

Images, where credited "courtesy of Wikepedia", are used under a Wikipedia Creative Commons license. See http://creativecommons.org and Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Thanks especially to Madboy.