Most of the beginning arms and achievements included a version of the national cross (Znamierowski, 14-15), indicating the influence of the Catholic Church over medieval society, as well as the religious motivation of liberating the Holy Land connected with the Crusades in the minds of the medieval people. Another of the most common inclusions in an achievement was something that indicated the grantee’s name, such as arrows or indications of archery for the surname Fletcher, horses for Trotter, or a variation of a fox for Fox (Fox-Davies, 5). Besides indications of profession, this was one of the most enduring inclusion of achievements There was also an indication of the feudal system in heraldry, such as how the granting of an achievement was exclusively for knights and noblemen as well as the way certain components could be arranged to indicate who the individual served or what and how much an individual might
Most of the beginning arms and achievements included a version of the national cross (Znamierowski, 14-15), indicating the influence of the Catholic Church over medieval society, as well as the religious motivation of liberating the Holy Land connected with the Crusades in the minds of the medieval people. Another of the most common inclusions in an achievement was something that indicated the grantee’s name, such as arrows or indications of archery for the surname Fletcher, horses for Trotter, or a variation of a fox for Fox (Fox-Davies, 5). Besides indications of profession, this was one of the most enduring inclusion of achievements There was also an indication of the feudal system in heraldry, such as how the granting of an achievement was exclusively for knights and noblemen as well as the way certain components could be arranged to indicate who the individual served or what and how much an individual might