Editing Mantling

{{Short description|In heraldry, drapery tied to the helmet above the shield}}
{{for|the rockclimbing move|Mantel (climbing)}}
[[File:Heraldic lambrequins or and purpure.svg|thumb|Mantling, [[purpure]] doubled [[or (tincture)|or]]]]
[[File:Coa Hungary Clan Gutkeled.svg|thumb|Red and white mantling on the coat of arms of the Hungarian [[Gutkeled (gens)|Gutkeled clan]].]]
In [[heraldry]], '''mantling''' or "lambrequin" (its name in French) is drapery tied to the [[Helmet (heraldry)|helmet]] above the shield. In paper heraldry it is a depiction of the protective cloth covering (often of [[linen]]<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=8827 Encyclopædia Britannica] - Mantling</ref>) worn by [[knight]]s from their helmets to stave off the elements, and, secondarily, to decrease the effects of sword-blows against the helmet in battle, from which it is usually shown tattered or cut to shreds; less often it is shown as an intact drape, principally in those cases where clergy use a helmet and mantling (to symbolise that, despite the perhaps contradictory presence of the helmet, they have not been involved in combat), although this is usually the artist's discretion and done for decorative rather than symbolic reasons.

Generally, mantling is blazoned ''mantled x, doubled'' [lined] ''y''; the cloth has two sides, one of a [[Tincture_(heraldry)#Colours|colour]] and the other of a [[Tincture_(heraldry)#Metals|metal]]. The mantling is usually in the main colours of the shield, or else in the [[livery]] colours that symbolize the entity bearing the arms, though there are exceptions, with occasional tinctures differing from these, or occasional examples in which the outside of the mantling is per pale of two colours<ref>{{Cite web |title=Professor Raymond Peter Clark OBE CEng., FSEE., HonFRPS |url=http://www.whitelionsociety.org.uk/WLS%20Armorial%20Ppt%20GIF/Slide%20158.gif |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928011659/http://www.whitelionsociety.org.uk/WLS%20Armorial%20Ppt%20GIF/Slide%20158.gif |archive-date=2007-09-28 |access-date=2007-03-26}}</ref> or both the inside and outside are per pale,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nemzetijelkepek.hu/onkormanyzat-ocsod_en.shtml|title=National and historical symbols of Hungary|first=National Infocommunications Service Company Limited by|last=Shares|website=www.nemzetijelkepek.hu|access-date=15 April 2018}}</ref> and even rarer examples of other divisions,<ref>{{cite web|title=Sitio oficial de Sutamarchan en Boyaca, Colombia|url=http://sutamarchan-boyaca.gov.co/nuestromunicipio.shtml?apc=m-g1--&m=f|access-date=2007-10-21|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120714163157/http://sutamarchan-boyaca.gov.co/nuestromunicipio.shtml?apc=m-g1--&m=f|archive-date=2012-07-14}}</ref> and there is a perhaps unique example in which the lining of the mantling is per pale of the two metals<ref>{{cite web|title=College of Arms: The Arms and Badge of Professor S. W. Haines|url=http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/Haines.htm|access-date=2008-01-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100309230629/http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/Haines.htm|archive-date=2010-03-09|url-status=dead}}</ref> or of the entire mantling being of a single tincture.<ref>{{cite web|title=Russian Heraldry as It is /|url=http://the.heraldry.ru/text/orourke.html|access-date=2007-11-28}}</ref>  The mantling of the Black Loyalist Heritage Society<ref>{{cite web|title=The Public Register of Arms, Flags and Badges of Canada: Arms of the Black Loyalist Heritage Society|url=http://reg.gg.ca/heraldry/pub-reg/project-pic.asp?lang=e&ProjectID=1031&ProjectElementID=3557}}</ref> is a unique example in which the mantling is of two furs ([[Ermine (heraldry)#Variations|ermines]], lined ermine).  There is also the unique example of the mantling of Bruce Douglas Bolton, which is [[tartan]] on the outside.<ref>{{cite web |title=Register of Arms, Flags and Badges |url=http://reg.gg.ca/heraldry/pub-reg/project-pic.asp?lang=e&ProjectID=343&ProjectElementID=1178 |access-date=10 November 2018}}</ref>  The [[coat of arms of Canada]] is mantled white and red, or ''argent doubled gules''; furthermore, the current standard rendering of the Canadian arms has mantling in the shape of [[maple leaf|maple leaves]].  The arms of sovereigns are a common exception.  The [[royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom|arms of the United Kingdom]] are ''or, lined ermine'', such a mantling often being held to be limited to sovereigns.{{Heraldic achievement}}In the early days of the development of the crest, before the [[torse]] (wreath), crest coronets and [[chapeau]]x were developed, the crest often "continued into the mantling" if this was feasible (the clothes worn by a demi-human figure, or the fur of the animal, for instance, allowing or encouraging this). It still holds true frequently in [[Germany]].

There are rare examples where the mantling is blazoned to complement the armiger's coat of arms, mimicking the ordinaries and charges on the escutcheon. When charges occur, they are usually displayed as a [[semy]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Patrick Cracroft-Brennan |url=http://www.whitelionsociety.org.uk/WLS%20Armorial%20Ppt%20GIF/Slide%20149.gif |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928011708/http://www.whitelionsociety.org.uk/WLS%20Armorial%20Ppt%20GIF/Slide%20149.gif |archive-date=2007-09-28 |access-date=2007-03-26}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Mantle and pavilion (heraldry)]]

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