Burgher arms or bourgeois arms are coats of arms borne by persons of the burgher social class of Europe since the Middle Ages (usually called bourgeois...

Heraldic Board of the National Archives of Sweden. Heraldic arms of common citizens (burgher arms), however, are less strictly controlled. These are recognised...

Germany and the Holy Roman Empire, including national and civic arms, noble and burgher arms, ecclesiastical heraldry, heraldic displays and heraldic descriptions...

time). Arms become hereditary by the end of the 12th century, in England by King Richard I during the Third Crusade (1189–1192). Burgher arms were used...

use of burgher arms in Portugal. The first restriction appeared in this reign, with the ban of the use of the or tincture in these type of arms. During...

coats of arms even though they were not members of the nobility. These are sometimes referred to as burgher arms, and it is thought that most arms of this...

Late Middle Ages (Burgher arms). Specific traditions of Ecclesiastical heraldry also develop in the late medieval period. Coats of arms of noble families...

use open helmets while burgher families used closed ones. Burgher arms follow the same rules as noble arms. Canting coats of arms have been popular in Danish...

history) abroad. Included are the national and civic arms of the State of Israel, noble and burgher arms, synagogal heraldry, heraldic displays and heraldic...

heraldry. After the renaissance of municipal heraldry, burgher arms also became popular. Burgher arms were used in Finland in the 17th and 18th centuries...

included in new grants of arms. On the European continent, there is a clear difference between noble arms and burgher arms. In most countries, scholars...

knights, also adopted by English esquires and gentlemen, as well as on burgher arms The usage of heraldic helmets in Britain is as follows: gold helmet with...

the nobility of the Holy Roman Empire, as well as coats of arms of city-states and some burgher families. Founded and compiled by Johann Ambrosius Siebmacher...

right to keep and bear arms (often referred to as the right to bear arms) is a legal right for people to possess weapons (arms) for the preservation of...

recorded the arms of persons and families. Example of bourgeois (or burgher) arms: the coat of arms of the de Muyser Lantwyck family. Coat of arms of the de...

coats of arms even though they were not members of the nobility. These are sometimes referred to as burgher arms, and it is thought that most arms of this...

Notably, lions that would subsequently appear in 12th-century coats of arms of European nobility have pre-figurations in the animal style of ancient...

The coronets for the nobility were, however, also used in arms and monograms by many burghers and peasants, e. g. in seals on the Norwegian Constitution...

(i.e. noble arms and burgher arms). No other northern European country has a comparable heraldic authority, although the College of Arms in Britain and...

ancient city-states, giving rise to a civitas and the social class of the burgher or bourgeoisie. Since then states have expanded the status of citizenship...

Belgian Genealogical and Heraldic Office Burgher arms Council of Nobility Flemish Heraldic Council College of Arms (England, Wales, Northern Ireland) Lord...

through the generations. On 29 June 1571, Andreas Grill, burgher in Augsburg received burgher arms in letters patent from a count palatine of the Holy Roman...

of arms. It was used by many noble families of the Kingdom of Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. A variant serves as the coat of arms of the...

between three roses argent and Or a lion rampant gules. The coat of arms of the Dutch burgher Claes van Rosenvelt, ancestor of the American political family...

Community of Belgium Genealogical and Heraldic Office of Belgium Heraldry Burgher arms Lieve Viaene-Awouters and Ernest Warlop (2002) p.33. Lieve Viaene-Awouters...

President of the Republic of Swellendam. The burghers of Swellendam started to call themselves "national burghers", after the style of the French Revolution...

Ogończyk is a Polish coat of arms. It was used by several szlachta families in the times of the Kingdom of Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth...

Pobóg is a Polish coat of arms that was used by many noble families in medieval Poland and later under the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Research by...

burghers, except leaders, who took an oath of neutrality and returned quietly to their homes. It is estimated that between 12,000 and 14,000 burghers...

to take the oath as a Hamburg burgher in 1684; the family thus became part of Hamburg's ruling class of Grand Burghers. Cornelius Berenberg's son, Rudolf...