- heart

HEART. In blazon, the heart is termed a human or body heart. P. 42, f. 1.  

                Heart. Enfiled, Ensigned, Flamant, Pierced, Transfixed, Vulned, Winged, etc. i.d. f. 1 to 5, f. 4 is a dexter hand erect, betw. two stalks of wheat flexed in saltire, issuing from a heart all ppr., in the hand a book shut sa. garnished or. (ELVN)

Heart сердце во французской геральдике 'en cœur' означает «сердце щита». fesse-point (фр. cœur): человеческое сердце, описанное термином 'proper', должно быть красным. Иногда изображается пылающим flammant, также иногда коронованным crowned, но последнее не ранее шестнадцатого века.

«Argent, a heart imperially crowned proper[i.e. gules, crowned gold] on a chief azure three mullets of the field» – DOUGLAS .

«Argent, a chief sable in fesse a human heart gules» – Edmund SCAMLER, Bp. of Peterborough, 1561; Bp. of Norwich, 1585-94.

«Gules, a body-heart, between two wings displayed or» – Henry de WENGHAM, Bishop of London, 1259-62.

«Argent, a heart gules within a fetterlock sable; on a chief azure, three boar's heads erased argent» – LOCKHEART.

«Per fesse wavy or and vert; in chief a human heart emitting flames of fire proper between two crosses crosslet sable; in base an anchor erect of the last» – WADE, co. Durham.

«Azure, a fesse or; over all on a pile argent three hearts gules, two and one» – KEAN, Ireland.

«Argent, three hearts flammant gules» – HEART, Scotland.

«Or, three bars wavy gules; over all a human heart counterchanged» – DRUMMOND, co. Perth.