Polish heraldry

In Polish heraldry, gules is the most common tincture of the field.

In Polish heraldry all animals or birds are assumed to be in their natural coloring unless otherwise specified.

One of the most visually striking characteristics of Polish heraldry is the abundance of gules (red) fields.

Sadowski is one of the many surnames associated with the Nałęcz coat-of-arms in Polish heraldry.

In Polish heraldry, the tincture of the charge has priority in relation to the tincture of the field.

Other typical features used in Polish heraldry include horseshoes, arrows, Maltese crosses, scythes, stars and crescents.

However, in the heraldry of Germany, Polish heraldry and other parts of central Europe, sable is not infrequently placed on colour fields.

If this hypothesis is correct, it suggests in turn that Polish heraldry, also unlike Western European heraldry, may be at least partly derived from tamgas.

Both its blazoning and the features used are probably of foreign origin and were naturalised in Polish heraldry sometime in 16th century, probably of German origin.

Polish heraldry includes the extensive use of horseshoes, arrows, Maltese crosses, scythes, stars and crescents as well as many purely geometrical shapes for which a separate set of heraldic terms was invented.

Pogonowski has published an illustrated history of Poland (2000), historical atlases of Poland, and a Polish heraldry (2002) which was reviewed in The Slavic and East European Journal, vol.

Some other traditions (e.g., Polish heraldry) are less restrictive - allowing, for example, all members of a dynastic house or family to use the same arms, although one or more elements may be reserved to the head of the house.

Late appearance of the Kur coat of arms in Polish heraldry is explained by the tradition in Masovia that formed coat of arms in European style later than in other parts of Poland.

Polish heraldry is a branch of heraldry focused on studying the development of coats of arms in the lands of historical Poland (and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth), as well as specifically-Polish traits of heraldry.

"Korwin II - Reversing the figures is a common tool in Polish heraldry, which doesn't follow the general principles of the Western heraldry; there is also an inverted Korwin facing right (instead of the usual drawing facing left).

In 1978, he had written in Heraldry in the Catholic Church that letters of the alphabet should be avoided as heraldic charges, but supported the letter M in John Paul II's coat of arms because Polish heraldry has "frequent inclusion of letters".