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Stripping defeated opponents of their arms is a tradition as old as Homer; but adopting and wearing the devices of the conquered is not so well attested. A partial analogy, perhaps, is that of the Black Prince's adoption of the badge of the Three Feathers after (I _think_) the Battle of Poitiers, in which he had (as I remember) overthrown or at least vanquished King John of Bohemia, who used that badge. Kings sometimes _augmented_ the arms of commanders and champions with devices drawn from the arms of their vanquished adversaries. The example that occurs to me is the Howards of Norfolk, who (I seem to recall) got to add a small shield of Scotland to their arms after Flodden. W.G. COOKE