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From "The Bobbitt Family in America"
The Heraldic description of the BOBBITT coat of arms is:
Gules, three bends argent. First introduced about 1250 A.D.
Gules: the
tincture red in heraldry. It is represented in
an engraved escutcheon by vertical lines close together.
Three bends: a band diagonally
from the upper left (dexter)*
side of the shield to the lower right or sinister side.
properly it would be one third of the width, but is often less.
Argent: the white color in the
coat of arms intended to
represent silver, purity, innocence, beauty, gentleness.
Refernce to a
"generation" normally means a measure of time,
that represents about twenty five or thirty years, or the
period of time which man requires to attain maturity. As a
rule it is the age at which the first child is born to a family.
*
"In heraldry, dexter and sinister are determined, not from the point of the view
of the onlooker, but from that of the bearer of the shield."
- p.104, _A Complete Guide to Heraldry_, A.C. Fox-Davies, Bracken Books,
1929
| Only the oldest son would inherit his family’s coat of arms unchanged; his younger brothers would usually add a symbol to show who they were. The symbol a younger son added was often a smaller picture placed in the middle of the shield. When a woman married, especially if she had no brothers, the coat of arms of her family was often added to her husband’s arms. Sometimes the arms were quartered, or divided into parts. In this case, the man’s family coat of arms was in the upper left quarter (as you look at the coat of arms) and lower right, while the woman’s family’s arms were in the other two quarters. Shields are generally "read" like a book, starting at the upper left, going across and then down. |
