Coat of Arms
 

I would like to see the best of the Coat of Arms Posted!

Mine is LXA!:)

Mine is Theta Chi. The Crest has an eagle, a helmet, and the mantle. The sheild has a snake inbetween two swords. The motto has our motto plus 1856.

we don't have crests
 

http://www.zetapsi.org/images/main_escutcheon.jpg

Zeta Psi's Escutcheon, it's more than just a coat of arms :)
Ed

Click here to see Alpha Phi Omega's beloved coat of arms and badge. The meaning behind the symbols are secret.


-pirate00

Kappa Upsilon chapter
Alpha Phi Omega

Here is TKE's

http://www.tkecentral.net/imagepage/crest01.jpg

The crest of Zeta Tau Alpha:

http://www.tallahasseezta.org/images/clrcrest.gif

Alpha Xi Delta's crest



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Barb, I have always thought ZTA's crest is absolutely beautiful! :)

Lambda Chi Alpha has an awesome coat of arms! if only i could get a pic of it I would put it on here

I don't have a pic of our crest by for some unknown reason that I never found out ours looks so much like Sigma Chi's crest. I found this weird because our "main" founders brother was a FIJI and her dad was a beta, so where the resemblence of the sigma chi crest and ours comes from who knows. Any theta's out there do u know y?

Here's a link to the Sigma Kappa Crest , but it doesn't really do it justice, since it's supposed to be more colors than just lavendar...

http://www.yale.edu/aephi/pages/symb...rgecolumns.gif

The columns of Alpha Epsilon Phi.

No crest
 

Alpha Omicron Pi does not have a crest or coat of arms because they are symbollic of the midevil time and principles and we were founded on greek principles. Our founders decided not to for this reason. Instead we use the a picture of our rose on any official correspondence. I just thought I'd share this interesting fact! :)

Having our insignia for over 160 years, you can see other fraternities based their coat of arms off of Beta Theta Pi. We are the only fraternity to use the Dragon as a symbol, but the actual crest has been copied several times.

http://www.betathetapi.org/images/insignia/coat.jpg

They all look great! It's good to see people being proud and showing their houses' coat of arms.

http://www.geocities.com/phibetaphi/graphics/crest.JPG


This isn't the highest quality graphic, but you get the idea. It should be more gold than yellow, also.

(If the above image didn't show up, try this link

Here is our coat of arms.

http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~corbinsa/coatofarms.bmp

Here it is, my chapters coat of arms


http://www.kdstv-bodensee.de/cards/wappen.jpg

I will leave it to one of my more computer-adept sisters to post an illustration of Alpha Gamma Delta's armorial bearings.

Alpha Gams are very proud of our founder Emily Helen Butterfield, who was an expert on heraldry. She wrote College Fraternity Heraldry (pub. by Banta, 1931). She designed the Zeta Tau Alpha and Tau Kappa Epsilon armorial bearings.

BTW, because of Emily's expertise the Alpha Gam pledge (new member) pin is also heraldically correct. ("On a shield, parti per pale, or and vert, a fess gules," which means, "On a shield, divided in half vertically, gold left and green right, a cross-bar in red.")

Our coat of arms is described, "Gules, on a bend or, between two billets of the same, three annulets vert," or a red shield with a diagonal band of gold between two rectangles of gold, three green rings." The crest is "a red and a buff rose proper between epsilon and pi," the "proper" meaning "in their natural state."

It's interesting to note that newer GLO's apparently have no clue about heraldry when their design their coats-of-arms, nor are they inclined to learn. (Technically the crest is the part at the top, above the shield.)

Alpha Gamma Delta
 

Delta Upsilon

http://www.mudeltau.org/images/crest/crestsmall.jpg

Re: Alpha Gamma Delta
 

Let's not forget about the Canadian Armorial Bearings! The chapters in Canada use the Armorial Bearings without the helmet. It's contrary to the rulings of the British government for anyone except the sovereign to bear the royal helmet:

http://www.zetachi.net/images/can8dn.gif

Wow! Is That A German Fraternity?
 

How old is that coat of arms? Most of ours are of English heraldric. Your German escutcheon looks different. It's really beautiful.

Here is our description

Or, on a bend gules, a nowed serpent between two swords, points downward, pale wise all of the first. On an esquires helmet the crest of an eagle displayed Or.

It also has a motto at the bottom and a mantle or.

Here's our crest: http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~piphi/crest.gif

Crest
 

I have trouble getting in the crest into the screen, so instead I just put a link,

http://www.stanford.edu/group/tdx/

Theta Delta Chi

this is ours:


http://clubs.arizona.edu/~gaobc/CandyCrest.gif

This may be answered in Ms. Butterfield’s book, but the only copy I ever saw was on eBay. It quickly got out of my price range as it sold for over $500. Why did she not use a lozenge for the AGD or ZTA shield? In heraldry, a woman can only use a lozenge for her shield unless she is a sovereign. The other shield designs are considered masculine and more appropriate for one that must bear arms. Traditionally, women did not fight and thus did not bear arms. Any insight would be helpful.

Re: Wow! Is That A German Fraternity?
 

Thanks a lot, the coat of arms is only 26 years old since our chapter is only 27. By the way, each of the chapters has its specific coat of arms in the chapter's colors.


Below, I added the coat of arms of my fraternity association that dates back to the mid 19th century when the first two chapters signed the aggreement to form an association: Cartell of Catholic German Fraternities (which would be the approximate equivalent of ypor nationals/internationals.

http://www.kdstv-bodensee.de/nr_gfx/cvwapp.jpg

Psi Upsilon
 

I just thought of something..

A couple years ago I was in Indy and visited a couple HQ, including Psi Upsilon's. Each of their chapters designs its own crest. They have a big meeting room (mainly for the board of directors) and the crests are hanging all around the room. It's kind of cool. Perhaps a member can shed more light on why, but it's just something that stuck out about their fraternity.

I had the opportunity to take the full tour of the SAE HQ in Evanston, IL and in their basement, painted on the ceiling, is the crest of every fraternity. I am not sure if they sororities are on there, but it wouldn't surprise me.

Of course the meaning behind the AGD crest and the ZTA crest are only told to initiated members, but I can say that there is a significance as to why she chose what she did. That is really all I can say and I surely doubt that she wrote about why in her book.
An interesting thought if you look at the TKE and AGD crests they are really kind of alike.
Sarah

Emily (and you can call her that, too!....all Alpha Gams are on a first-name basis and we'll extend that to our Panhellenic friends <g>) writes:

"There were a number of laws governing the use of armorial designs by women. These were controlled by the fact as to whether she was maid, wife, or widow, and whether or not she was heiress in her own right. On occasion her husband might include her family shield with his. Ordinarily she displayed her family arms within a diamond or oval called a lozenge and she did not display a crest as she was a noncombatant.

"The heraldry of the American college fraternity, however, is not a compilation of family arms. It bears practically no resemblance to the inherited arms of a family but is, rather, comparable to the permanent armorial designs of cities, corporations, or perhaps more particularly to those of old guilds where craftsmanship, skill, and a common vocational interest bound many individuals together even though therer were no ties of blood."

(Note how many NPC groups use shields: AXO, AdPi, AGD, APhi, AXiD, DDD. DZ, GPhiB, KAT, KKG, SK, ZTA.....)

HTH!

It seems that several of the Brothers of LXA have tried to put ours on, none of has been succesful! Try lambdachi.org, the International web site! I know that ours is more true to the Heraldry of the days of old than anyother!:)

I wish I had the where with all but if I was 5 years old I could do it!:(

um...i put it up Tom. Does it not show up?

NO!!!!! Dang it!:eek:

Re: Re: Wow! Is That A German Fraternity?
 

That is truely gorgeous! I noticed the figure wears a leather helmet that looks like feudal Germany. I know the black eagle has been a German symbol for hundres of years. Do you have four colors?(red,gold,green,white). I think all American fraternities have only two colors. Congratulations, yours is an exceptionally beautiful crest.

Here's my fraternities Coat of Arms. I like ours a lot because it's a little different than others. Take it easy all.

Kris
Sigma Pi


http://www.sigmapi.org/images/artwork/randycrest.gif