Augmentations
Augmentations
AMONGST the Italian tales connected with the Crusades is that of Otho Visconti, one of the early lords of Milan, and Duke of Lombardy. He…
Augmentations: England
An augmentation is some little ornament, a rose, perhaps, or a dagger, a star, a lily, or, at the very most, a lion from the shield of…
Augmentations: Scotland
Such a mark of kingly favor as that of the wreath, or tressure, of Scotland, which, if you look on the shield of the great English admiral…
Augmentations: Henry
We see the Tressure on another coat-of-arms, that belonging to the noblest peer in all the realm, one who through many generations has…
Augmentations: Blanche
The duke himself, at the close of the battle, gave to his retainers, as a badge to wear upon their left arms, the white lion of his own…