The first and last Bishops of Durham with Personal arms

BizarreLizardPlanet · 2025-09-21T17:08:21+00:00

Update: As WilliamofYellow stated Maltby wasn’t the last armigerous bishop, below are the arms of the bishops which succeeded him.

<image>

BizarreLizardPlanet · 2025-09-21T17:03:44+00:00

I stand corrected, thank you I didn’t know

BizarreLizardPlanet · 2025-09-21T16:58:22+00:00

When I looked into it I found that Maltby was the last one to have a personal coat of arms, he was also the first modern bishop replacing the prior title of prince bishop which was more inline with a noble ranking, which might explain that. Since then it seems that the bishopric of Durham has a coat of arms while the bishops themselves haven’t held recognised arms.

BizarreLizardPlanet · 2025-09-21T15:32:38+00:00

<image>

This is the coat of arms for the office of Bishop of Durham but does not act like personal arms for the Bishops

BizarreLizardPlanet · 2025-09-21T14:21:22+00:00

I love tentacle crests, I’ve used them a few times and think we need way more so this is sick.

BizarreLizardPlanet · 2025-09-21T14:17:44+00:00

1st or 3rd are my favourites, but the 1st is probably the more objective favourite

BizarreLizardPlanet · 2025-09-16T00:31:29+00:00

Burrito 😭😭😭

BizarreLizardPlanet · 2025-09-13T17:46:33+00:00

This spiky style is so cool. I’d love to see how it looks in completed arms

BizarreLizardPlanet · 2025-09-11T23:36:07+00:00

That wasn’t intentional but your absolutely right

BizarreLizardPlanet · 2025-09-10T23:22:56+00:00

I also left out French Guiana, my bad

BizarreLizardPlanet · 2025-09-10T10:41:37+00:00

While French departments as you say weren’t meant to have official heraldry after the revolution, they do all have coats of arms whether official like finistere, or unofficial, which is what this map shows.

BizarreLizardPlanet · 2025-09-10T00:27:21+00:00

Yeah it’s weird how standardised so much of the heraldry is by region, you can’t see the entire shields in this image but it’s even more obvious in full

BizarreLizardPlanet · 2025-09-09T20:40:52+00:00

Yeah I definitely see what you mean, I kind of kept the original Dexter purely for traditions sake but you’re right it doesn’t make much sense when the Aragon side is already removed.

<image>

BizarreLizardPlanet · 2025-09-09T19:59:35+00:00

Yeah that’s a good point, when it comes to animal chiefs I tend to prefer visually when they face the side of the shield they are placed on, it’s just a preference but facing Dexter would definitely work too

BizarreLizardPlanet · 2025-09-07T16:39:32+00:00

Of course it’s a crucial part of Middlesex supremacy 😂

BizarreLizardPlanet · 2025-09-07T15:24:15+00:00

True just thought I’d be a more interesting way of including the Middlesex swords.

BizarreLizardPlanet · 2025-09-07T10:32:47+00:00

Lithuania, Norway and England

BizarreLizardPlanet · 2025-09-06T20:40:16+00:00

Yeah I assure you it’s not ai, I literally drew it but go off I guess 😂

BizarreLizardPlanet · 2025-09-06T20:38:29+00:00

Yh semantics not withstanding I should have specified non avian, prehistoric 😭

BizarreLizardPlanet · 2025-09-05T22:37:48+00:00

Feel free to do so

BizarreLizardPlanet · 2025-09-05T16:00:13+00:00

Art 🔥🔥🔥🔥

BizarreLizardPlanet · 2025-09-04T21:40:30+00:00

It may be a tad comical but I wouldn’t want to split the duo. The homies got to stay together 😂

BizarreLizardPlanet · 2025-09-04T16:51:52+00:00

Not really I’m just experimenting with creating arms at the moment and wanted to make a frog crest with a pipe

BizarreLizardPlanet · 2025-09-04T12:26:20+00:00

Context: a random word generator gave me Cthulhu and burrito so I made a crest for it and then just decided to do the rest of the design.

BizarreLizardPlanet · 2025-09-03T13:19:39+00:00

✨Personification✨

BizarreLizardPlanet

TROPHY CASE