Book Of Traceable Heraldic Art

Potent

Potent (1) §

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Neutral fur. Sometimes blazoned “potenty.” Tinctured argent and azure, unless explicitly blazoned as “potent tincture and tincture” with any two contrasting tinctures.

The argent and azure variation was used routinely in period armory, while other color combinations were rare.

Potent (2) §

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Neutral fur. Sometimes blazoned “potenty.” Tinctured argent and azure, unless explicitly blazoned as “potent tincture and tincture” with any two contrasting tinctures.

This variation with the potents lined up below one another was later blazoned “potent in pale,” but within the SCA it is not blazoned differently. Very rare in period armory.

Potent En Point §

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Neutral fur. Sometimes blazoned “potenty en point.” Tinctured argent and azure, unless explicitly blazoned as “potenty en point tincture and tincture” with any two contrasting tinctures.

Very rare in period armory.

Bend Double Cotised Interiors Potent Counter-potent §

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Central ordinary.

Source: Sammelband Mehrerer Wappenbücher. Artist unknown. (Arms of the Counts of Champagne.)