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International Heraldry Day

International Heraldry Day is held on June 10. This event in the first decade of the month June is annual.

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On June 10 we pay tribute to an ancestral form of artistic expression. It is the International Day of Heraldry, an initiative proposed by the Polish Heraldry Society.

Heraldry comes from the masculine noun herald, i.e. the one who announced and described the knights entering the tournament, the one who announced the facts, the one who carried the declarations of war as a public official in the Middle Ages. In addition to being an adjective, heraldry is a noun denoting the science that helps us to understand and properly compose coats of arms, or the code of rules that allows us to correctly represent and describe coats of arms.

Strictly defined, it denotes that which pertains to the office and duty of a herald, whose visible head was the king of arms; that part of his work dealing with coats of arms is properly called armory, but in general usage heraldry has come to mean the same as armory. It is a discipline concerned with the design, display and study of coats of arms, as well as related disciplines, the study of ceremony, rank and pedigree.

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