[antir-heralds] Help with a Motto and Achievement

[Ursula Georges]

Jillian Bower wrote:
> H'lo!
> 
> I'm looking for places online to start appropriate research into these
> things for a woman living in 16th century England. I'd like to, if at ALL
> possible, break away from the Latin motto thing, but I think by my period it
> was 'in vogue' to use Latin in that way.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Elizabeth

Here are a couple of sixteenth-century English manuscripts with lots of 
heraldry, both from the Medieval Heraldry Archive:

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/mss/top/glouc/d/002.htm

http://mdz10.bib-bvb.de/~db/bsb00001647/images/

(The second is on the website for a German museum.  It includes a 
complete achievement for Henry VIII which incorporates a motto scroll, 
'Dieu et Moun Droit', and the badge for the order of the Garter-- click 
on Königswappen König Heinrichs VIII. von England -- as well as less 
elaborate achievements.)

English and French are both very appropriate languages for 
sixteenth-century mottoes, as well as Latin.  I'll send you my 
work-in-progress translations of Tudor standard mottoes privately.

Ursula Georges.