of HM Queen Camilla In the
early modern period, use of a boar's head (rather than the entire animal) became popular as a heraldic device.
Siebmachers Wappenbuch (1605) shows a boar in the coat of arms of the noble
von Schweinichen family. Boars, in whole or in part, feature frequently in British heraldry. While a distinction is sometimes made between the wild animal, termed the wild boar or
sanglier, and the male
domestic pig, termed simply the boar, these are not depicted differently from one another in heraldic art. The boar's head is a common charge, and in
English heraldry is traditionally shown attached to its neck. In
Scottish and
Welsh heraldry, however, it cut off from behind the ears. In the first case, the boar's head is described as being couped or
erased at the neck, while in the latter it is couped or erased close. 's arms The ancient Cheshire
Booth family, of which a scion was
Laurence Booth,
Archbishop of York, and whose descendants became baronets and
Earls of Warrington, display arms blazoned ''Argent three Boars' Heads erect erased Sable''.
Queen Camilla's marital arms feature a rampant wild boar with a chained crown around its neck, supporting the shield to the sinister and the head of a boar on her paternal (
Shand) family shield. In modern times, a boar's head has been used in
French heraldry such as in the arms of
Joseph Bonaparte and
Joachim Murat.
Family coats of arms In
Ireland, boars feature in many coats of arms of the noble families. Three boars are seen on coats of arms of
Lockhart,
Grimsby, and
Oglethorpe. In addition, the
Sullivan-Mor arms display a boar, and those of
Sullivan-Ber have two. The O'Deorain (
Doran) arms, an offshoot of the Sullivans, feature a boar, the
Rogans' display a boar crossing a hilltop and
Baroness Healy's patrilineal family use three boars' heads. The
Purcells of Loughmoe's coat of arms features four black boars' heads. The
McCanns display a boar as too do the
Crowleys whose arms feature a blue boar surrounded by three red crosses. The
Cassidy coat of arms features a white boar in base.
The O’Hanlon displayed a boar as the
Standard Bearer for
Orior (in present-day Ulster). Some Irish
Keating families have been granted arms comprising a boar going through a holly bush alluding to courage. In
Scotland, a boar's head is the
crest of
Clan MacTavish,
Clan Campbell, and
Clan Innes. It appears in both the coat of arms and crest of
Clan Chisholm. Three boars' heads are depicted in the coats of arms of the related clans of
Swinton,
Gordon,
Nesbitt and
Urquhart, as well as those of the unrelated
Lord Bannerman of Kildonan. In
Northern Spain and
Latin America, the coats of arms of noble families such as
Garmendia, Urraga,
Urrutia, Urieta and
Urmeneta all depict a boar; boars, wolves and bears are common charges in
Basque heraldry, especially from
Guipuzcoa.
Cities and towns as a
supporter in the arms of
Voždovac Boar charges are also often used in
canting (heraldic
punning). The
German towns of
Eberbach and
Ebersbach an der Fils, both in
Baden-Württemberg, and
Ebersbach, Saxony use civic arms that demonstrates this. Each depicts a boar – '
in German (and in two cases a wavy fess or bars meant to represent a brook – ' in German).
Albano Laziale in
Italy is near where, according to legend,
Aeneas's son
Ascanius founded
Alba Longa; the city's modern arms sport the white boar (Latin:
Alba) dreamt by Ascanius before founding the city.
Malacky in
Slovakia also has a coat of arms with a
wild boar. The name of the city, which was first mentioned in writing in 1206, refers to the word "Malacka" which means "piglet" in the Hungarian (
Magyar) language. In the
East Flanders province of Belgium, the municipality of
Evergem, literally "boar's estate" in Dutch, features a boar on a gold field. In
Belgium, the
Flemish municipalities of
Vorselaar in the
Antwerp Province and
Zaventem in the
Flemish Brabant province prominently feature boars. In
Serbia, the
municipalities and cities of
Barajevo,
Kragujevac,
Lapovo,
Lajkovac,
Topola,
Velika Plana, and
Voždovac display the
Triballian boar on their heraldic shields or as supporters.
Military and paramilitary badges of
Eberbach,
Germany (1976 design) In various armorials, the Serbian coat of arms has featured the pierced head of a wild boar, also known as the
coat of arms of Triballia. The banner of the
Serbian revolutionary forces during the
First Serbian Uprising also featured a boar together with the
Serbian cross.
The Lorne Scots, a
Canadian Army Infantry Regiment, has adopted the boar's head as its heraldic emblem due to their affiliation with Clan Campbell. In
Belgium, the wild boar is the symbolic animal of the
Ardennes Forest in the south, and is the mascot of one of the
Belgian Army's premier infantry regiments, the
Régiment de Chasseurs Ardennais, whose soldiers wear the boar's head as a
cap badge. ==See also==