Gules

In heraldry, gules (/ˈɡjuːlz/) is the tincture with the colour red. It is one of the class of five dark tinctures called "colours", the others being azure (blue), sable (black), vert (green) and purpure (purple).

Gules is portrayed in heraldic hatching by vertical lines, or indicated by the abbreviation g. or gu. when a coat of arms is tricked.

Etymology

The term gules derives from the Middle English goules, which itself is an

• Of jewels, the ruby^[5]

• Of heavenly bodies, Mars^[5]

Examples

Gules is the most widely used heraldic tincture. Through the sixteenth century, nearly half of all noble coats of arms in Poland had a field gules with one or more argent charges on them.^{[citation needed]}

Examples of coats of arms consisting of purely a red shield (blazoned gules plain) include those of the d'Albret family, the Rossi family, the Swiss canton of Schwyz (prior to 1815), and the old coats of arms of the cities of Nîmes and Montpellier.

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  The Plantagenet coat of arms, gules three lions passants guardants or, origin of the

  Royal Arms of England^[6]
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  Coat of arms of the House of Savoy, gules a cross argent^[7]
• 
  The

  Royal Arms of Scotland Or a lion rampant Gules within a double tressure flory-counter-flory of the second^[8]
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  stained glass, 1573), gules plain; the Juliusbanner with the Arma Christi

  inset is held by one of the supporters.
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  The

  city of Vienna, gules a cross argent ^[9]
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  Coat of arms of the

  Kingdom of Poland, Gules, an eagle argent, crowned or^[10]
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  Coat of arms of French Maison d'Albret. Gueules plain by contemporary heraldic artist Dario Scaricamazza.

See also

• Polish heraldry
• Cinnabar
• Murrey
• Sinople

References

External links

• Media related to Gules at Wikimedia Commons

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