Harry: What are those pictures on the shields? Sally: Each knight family had a coat of arms: a special picture that told a story about their family and the place they came from. Everything in the ...

Definition of "coat of arms": an arrangement of bearings, usually depicted on and around a shield, that indicates ancestry and distinctions. In scarlet red and white, this coat of arms uses elements ...

There are a couple of thousand different Polish coats of arms. You might expect that these would all include images of some lofty or knightly character but that isn’t always the case. Many are ...

and the colourful banners of living knights hang here. Brass plates with coats of arms of current and former knights are attached to the stalls. The Sovereign and the Great Master of the Order ...