The Scottish Heraldic Gazetteer

W elevation (front) pediment arms

GAZETTEER NO.

WIG_0009.01

ARMS

STEWART, Earl of Galloway

BLAZON

Or, a fess chequy Azure and Argent, surmounted of a bend engrailed Gules, within a double tressure flory counterflory of the last (Stewart)

CREST

a pelican in its piety feeding its young, surmounting an Earl’s coronet

SUPPORTERS

(dexter) a wild man wreathed about the loins and holding a club over his right shoulder [Proper]; (sinister) a lion rampant [Gules]

MOTTO

VIRESCIT VULNERE VIRTUS (Virtue, when wounded, flourishes)

CONDITION

Very Good

THREAT

Moderate

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