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Bend
… bendlet, cotices, baston; per bend; bendy, fretty, lozengy; lozenge, mascle, fret

Azure, a bend or — Scrope

Possibly the most famous arms in English heraldry.


Or, a bend azure — Carthorpe

Or, a bend sable — Mauley


Ermine, a bend sinister gules — Barre


Diminutives: bendlet, cotices, baston

Azure, ij bend(let)s or — Buonarotti

Gules, iij bends sable — Bodrugan


Or, a bend with ij cotices sable — Harley

«baston» — ?


Parted field: per bend

(party) per bend sable & argent — Capponi

(party) per bend argent & gules, a bend enhanced azure
— Edward A. Moritz (granted 2002) [*]


Varied field: bendy, fretty, lozengy

bendy (of vj) argent & azure — St. Philibert

bendy of x or & azure — Montfort


Sable fretty or ― Bellew

Argent fretty gules charged with roundels or — Trussel

lozengy argent & azure ― Crofts of Dalton

lozengy argent & gules ― Monaco (House of Grimaldi)


Argent, a lozenge gules ― Schwerin

Or iij lozenges azure ― Costello


lozenges & °fusils … but how many of each?


Gule a fess of v fusils or ― Adam de Newmarch


Gules vij voided lozenges joined iij, iij & j or ― de Quincy, Earl of Winchester


Sable, a fret or ― Maltravers



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