identification systems friends and foes with the help of images acted in ancient times.In the era of the Crusades to the steel armor, banners and shields soldiers applied individual insignia knights.Their task was to battle the enemy can be distinguished from a comrade-in-arms.With the advent of peace Military Merit Knights did not lose relevance, therefore, at the entrance to the house or in the castle, fighting to hang out, and now the family coat of arms of the warrior, the founder of the family or clan.He also decorated the festive outfits and all items related to the sphere of influence of the owner, and made it a personal engraving on printing.
Thus, based on feats of arms family crest family formed a knight and lord.Seal with his picture all certified agreements and confirmed the authenticity of the documents and property of the lands belonging possession.The first signs of chivalry was applied to the boards, so this did not break the tradition, making it an integral part of heraldry.
Although the Slavs were far from the Crusades, but their lives are closely intertwined with the world will, expressed in special symbols.Therefore, each prince was ancestral guardian, keeping out of trouble, and they denounced all the property, from real estate and ending with agricultural tools and utensils.And as all the famous Slavic family originate from the kind of Rurik, the majority of them dvuzubets - this talisman and family coat of arms.Moreover, each of which branches of this kind Principality alters his image, making it a little different from others,
Unique bidentate family coat of arms on the princely seals assured letters and messages on his minted coins.Alexander Nevsky added to his image of a horseman with a spear, which represents one version of the sovereign, and on the other - the brave saint who died in the fight for the faith - George.
However, neither Lancer nor dvuzubtsa family coat of arms of the Romanov did not include a.And the reason for that, as the French say, is a woman - the wife of the Russian autocrat.Prince Ivan III concluded a dynastic family unit, taking wives cousin Byzantine emperor Sophia Palaeologus.And their family coat of arms decorated with two-headed eagle.After the fall of Byzantium Ivan III came hereditary right to the Byzantine symbols.Moscow principality, in agreement with the Roman Empire and the Kingdom of Poland, was approved by hereditary right.Russian state began to call himself the third Rome.Thus, the two-headed eagle "took off" on the state banner in Moscow.
should pay tribute to Prince Ivan III, he kept family coat of arms with the image of a rider, as was the use of state symbols of the Byzantine double-headed eagle, believing that under this sign have to unite all the independent Russian principalities.
about a hundred years old when ascended to the throne of the first representative of the Romanov dynasty, from the double-headed eagle has another, a third crown.He treats the inseparability of the Asian and European parts of Russia, and recognize the trinity of the crown of his principality from Siberia, Kazan and Astrakhan.
Today heraldry actively penetrates into business activity, so there corporate emblems.It is becoming fashionable in literature, used in everyday life and cultural sectors of society.Many create their own coats of arms of the houses, teams of local churches.As we can see, heraldry - a very exciting experience.
