[antir-heralds] memorials using devices

[Michael Edwards]

On Tue Jul 22 16:36 , Ursula Georges  sent:

>> For memorials, I could see using someone's device in a display, like a display of
>> arms for a scroll of honor. I'd think in a similar way that a persons device is
>> used on a tourney board. That usage indicates "I'm here in this tourney", but not
>> "I'm here on this tourney board". (I suppose a badge would technically say "I own
>> this tourney board"?). So a memorial display would say "these folks are being
>> remembered". 
>
>Remember that in our period, devices (and some badges) were passed down 
>in families.  Devices can be inherited in the SCA, too.  There's a 
>standard heraldic will:
>
>http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/admin.html#APPENDIX_D
>
>Without a heraldic will, the College of Heralds assumes that the right 
>to a device belongs to a person's legal heir:
>
>http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/admin.html#IV_G
>
>Ursula Georges.

Thanks Ursula! I knew about the wills, but hadn't seen about the legal heir bit. 

Mind you, that strikes me as a bit nuts, as it would seem the SCA is going to
head into the same problem as real world heraldry (running out of good
non-complex ideas, as they all get used up). Personally, I wish they'd make is so
when you registered arms, you by default signed a will that released your arms
for conflict after you died (or even if you just didn't "renew" in, say, 20 years). 

Anyway, so the implication would be one couldn't use the arms with out permission
of the heirs, I take it. 

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