Heraldry, Terms, Charges, Fess

Fess is in Charges.

Avenell Arms. Argent, a fess between five annulets gules. Modified from source.

Ayscough Arms. Sable, a fess or, between three asses passant argent, maned and unguled of the second. Source.

Badlesmere Arms. Argent, a fess between two gemelles gules. Source.

Beauchamp Arms. Gules a fess or between six cross crosslets or.

Camden Arms. Or, a fess engrailed between six crosses crosslet fitchy sable. Source.

Clere Arms. Argent on a fess azure, three eagles displayed or. Source.

Craven Arms. Argent, a fesse between six cross crosslets fitchée gules. Source.

Cromwell Arms. Quarterly per fess indented, azure and or, four lions passant counterchanged. Source.

Coventry Arms. Sable a fess between three crescents or. Source.

De La Pole Arms. Azure, a fess between three leopard's faces or. .

Fermor Arms. Argent, a fess sable between three lion's heads erased gules. Source.

Lisle Arms. Or a fess between two chevrons sable. Source.

Lister Arms. Ermine, a fess sable three mullets or. Source.

Louvain Arms. Gules billety or a fess of the last. Source.

Lucas Arms. Argent, a fess between six annulets gules.

Manners Arms. Or, two fess azure a chief gules.

Roper Arms. Per fess azure and or, a pale counter-changed and three buck's heads erased of the second. Source.

Tennant Arms. Argent, two crescents in fess sable on a chief gules a boar's head couped of the first. Source.

Walpole Arms. Or a fess between two chevrons sable three cross crosslets of the field. Source.

Watkins Arms. Azure, a fess vair between three leopard's faces jessant-de-lys or. Source.

Woodville Arms. Argent, a fess and a canton conjoined gules. Source.

fess. A horizontal bar across the centre of the escutcheon. From the Latin fascia meaning band.

Heraldry, Terms, Charges, Fess Argent

Daubigny Arms. Gules, four fusils conjoined in fess argent. Source.

Hood Arms. Sable, on a fess argent between three leopards passant guardant or spotted of the field as many escallops gules. Source.

Kitson Arms. Sable three fishes hauriant in fess argent a chief or. Source.

Carteret Arms. Gules four fusils in fess argent.

Around 1577 George Gower (age 37). Portrait of Richard Drake (age 42). The heraldic escutcheon shows seven quarters as follows:

1: Drake of Ash Arms. Drake of Ash in the parish of Musbury, Devon.

2: Argent, on a chief gules three cinquefoils of the first; Billet of Ash.

3: Gules, on a fess argent two mullets sable; Hamton of Rockbere and Ash.

4: Ermine, on a chief indented sable three crosslets fitchee or; Orwey of Orwey and Ash.

5: Barry of seven argent and sable.

6: Azure, six lions rampant argent crowned Gules, 3, 2, 1; Forde of Forde.

7: Argent, two chevrons sable (Esse/Ash of Ash); Esse or Ash of Ash.

Heraldry, Terms, Charges, Fess Azure

Feilding Arms. Argent, on a fess azure three lozenges or. Source.

Heraldry, Terms, Charges, Fess Chequy

Stewart Arms. Or a fess chequy. Source.

Arden Arms. Ermine, a fess chequy or and azure. Source.

Heraldry, Terms, Charges, Fess Dancetté

Rolle Arms. Or, a fess dancetté between three billets azure each charged with a lion rampant of the first three bezants. Source.

Duff Arms. Vert, a fess dancetté ermine, between a buck's head caboshed in chief and two escallops in base or.

Heraldry, Terms, Charges, Fess Gules

Acland Arms. Chequy argent and sable, a fess gules. Source.

Clifford Arms. Chequy or and azure, a fess gules. Source.

Devereux Arms. Argent, a fess gules three torteaux in chief. Source.

Fitzwalter Arms. Or, a fess gules between two chevrons of the last. Source.

Ingram Arms. Ermine on a fess gules three escallops or. Source.

Lumley Arms. Argent a fess gules between three parrots vert, collared of the second. Source.

Marmion Arms. Vairy, a fess gules, fretty or. Source.

Montagu Arms. Argent, three fusils conjoined in fess gules. Source.

Onslow Arms. Argent, a fess gules, between six Cornish Choughs proper. Source.