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in reply to a message by Susan Childers
It's kind of sad that I'm answering this question 18 years too late, but better late than never, and I've been studying the heraldry. Here is the best approximation I can come up with:
-A field of white (Argent) with a Templar cross shows that someone down the line fought in one of the crusades, ironic I know.
-Buckles represent loyalty, the fifth being held above a helmet signifies loyalty and bravery in combat.
To put it succinctly, and because nowadays the information is available (and at least not seemingly altered/falsified) on Wikipedia, if you look up the "Battle of the Catalaunian Fields" you will find that both Merovech and his son Childeric I fought alongside Flavius Aetius against the Mongols. Obviously they won, but not without the cost of the Holy Roman Empire doing their whole converting the masses thing.
Anyway, I'm strongly of the opinion that there were at least 5 instances of this kind of thing for the Childers name in history up to when the Coat of Arms was given. How appropriate it would be, for the first time the Merovingians lent their swords to be represented by that buckle held in that hand. :)
I hope whoever reads this enjoys going down the rabbit hole as much as I do. Who knows? Maybe things will work out in such a way that France may someday have another King or Queen from the Merovingian line on the throne?
-A field of white (Argent) with a Templar cross shows that someone down the line fought in one of the crusades, ironic I know.
-Buckles represent loyalty, the fifth being held above a helmet signifies loyalty and bravery in combat.
To put it succinctly, and because nowadays the information is available (and at least not seemingly altered/falsified) on Wikipedia, if you look up the "Battle of the Catalaunian Fields" you will find that both Merovech and his son Childeric I fought alongside Flavius Aetius against the Mongols. Obviously they won, but not without the cost of the Holy Roman Empire doing their whole converting the masses thing.
Anyway, I'm strongly of the opinion that there were at least 5 instances of this kind of thing for the Childers name in history up to when the Coat of Arms was given. How appropriate it would be, for the first time the Merovingians lent their swords to be represented by that buckle held in that hand. :)
I hope whoever reads this enjoys going down the rabbit hole as much as I do. Who knows? Maybe things will work out in such a way that France may someday have another King or Queen from the Merovingian line on the throne?
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