Editing Variation of the field (section)

=== Gyronny ===
[[File:Campbell arms.svg|thumb|200px|''Gyronny of eight or and sable'', arms of [[Clan Campbell|Campbell]]]]
A shield that is divided quarterly and per saltire, forming eight triangular pieces, is ''gyronny''. This is technically a field covered with ''gyrons'', a rare charge in the form of a [[Wedge (shape)|wedge]], shown individually in the well-known arms of [[Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March|Mortimer]]. Possibly the best-known example is in the arms of the Scottish family of Campbell: ''Gyronny of eight or and sable'', borne most notably by the [[Duke of Argyll]],<ref>Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.75{{full citation needed |date=September 2019}}</ref> Chief of the [[Clan Campbell]]. The first tincture in the blazon is that of the triangle in dexter chief.{{efn|There are apparently very rare examples in which gyronny is of more than two tinctures, such as the arms of Origo of Milan: ''Gyronny, sable, argent, vert, sable, argent, vert, sable, vert''.<ref>{{harvp|Woodward |Burnett|1892|page=86}}</ref>}} Gyronny can also have a different number of pieces than eight; for example, Sir William Stokker, Lord Mayor of London, had a field gyronny of six; there may be gyronny of ten or twelve, and the arms of Clackson provide an example of ''gyronny of sixteen''.{{efn|There cannot be gyronny of four, as that would be either per saltire or quarterly; or three, as that would be tierced in pairle or tierced in pairle reversed.}} While the gyrons of gyronny almost invariably meet in the fess point, the exact centre of the shield, the arms of the [[University of Zululand]] are an unusual example of gyronny meeting in the nombril point, a point on the shield midway between the fess point and the base point.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://geocities.com/bona_spes/uni/UZ.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20091027143125/http://geocities.com/bona_spes/uni/UZ.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-10-27 |website=Armoria academica |title=Armoria academica - University of Zululand}}</ref> Gyronny can be modified by most of the lines of partition,<ref>{{cite web |title=Members' Roll of Arms: Phillips, David |website=theheraldrysociety.com |url= https://www.theheraldrysociety.com/members-arms/phillips-david/}}</ref> with exceptions such as dancetty and angled{{why|date=September 2019}}.
The [[canting arms]] of Maugiron show ''gyronny of six'', clearly deemed ''mal-gironné'' ('badly gyronny').{{cn|date=May 2025}}