Talk:Ross Herald

Can anyone assist with the blazon of the badge for this office? From the picture on the Scots Heraldry website, I would guess it to be something like Between two lions rampant respectant argent unguled and langued gules in pale a baton sable tipped or ensigned with the Crown of Scotland proper, but my blazon is a little rusty. A picture would also be good to bring this article in line with the ones for Albany and Rothesay heralds, but I'm not sure about the copyright status of the one on the Scots Heraldry site. Dr pda 12:59, 14 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've posed the question on a couple Scottish heraldry fora. I'll add it when they get back to me. Also, the images from Rothesay Herald and Albany Herald look to be from the Scots Heraldry website. Maybe we can ask them for the OK to use Ross Herald's badge? Evadb 08:30, 15 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I found more pictures of the badges of Scottish Heralds/Pursuivants at this site while looking for something else. The picture of the badge for Ross is a bit clearer, and it looks like the lions have blue tongues and claws, not red, so are in fact armed and langued azure (unguled refers of course to hooves not claws!) Dr pda 23:13, 18 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I believe that when an animal is generally armed and langued gules by default unless it is gules itself or against a gules background. In those cases, Azure is usually the default. Strictly speaking, I don't think it needs to be blazoned, but clarity trumps brevity in my book.--Evadb 23:17, 18 March 2006 (UTC) Forgive me for abeing a trifle slow. I just remembered that they're Argent and not Gules Lions. Do you think that the owners of that page will allow someone to chop up that image for the parts?--Evadb 23:29, 18 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I believe when a Heraldic Painter was appointed a Herald, they designed their own Coat-of-Arms. I tried to add part of a page in Alexander Nisbet's book A System of Heraldry, Speculative & Practical written in 1712 but not published until 1722, which contains Henry Fraser's own drawing of his Coat-of-Arms but I couldn't figure out how to upload the image.--E. Penman (talk) 15:41, 7 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The present Ross Herald, Charles Burnett, has now retired, there is currently no Ross Herald (webpage of the Office of the Lord Lyon). Charles Ross of Biggar — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.216.161.7 (talk) 01:56, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]