[MR] heraldic cotehardie

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At one time, heraldic cotehadies were quite popular in the SCA.

Then a lady we know, Robin Netherton, published the results of research she had done on the subject.  She is a costume historian who publishes in scholarly journals.

Her research failed to find any records of what could be called heraldic surcotes.  Such a garment, had it exisited, would have been a special-occasion getup and would surely have been recorded.  Though it's impossible totally to prove a negative, she has concluded that heraldic cotehardies did not in fact exist in period.   At the time we learned of this, Catherine had just such a garment sketched out and was preparing to begin work on it.  The project was abandoned.

Your servant aye
Donal


-----Original Message-----
From: Alexandria Stratton <kyrilex at yahoo.com>
To: Merry Rose <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
Sent: Tue, Nov 17, 2009 11:55 am
Subject: [MR] heraldic cotehardie



Question for those who know...
 was thinking of doing a heraldic cotehardie. Is there any specific order that 
he heraldry should go? For instance, if you're doing a pennon, Spike should 
recede (closest to the pole) the baronial badge, which precedes the canton 
adge, etc. 
f the front of a cote is a quartered field, what goes where? Or does it matter?
hanks to all,
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