KALININGRAD, Russia -- A court in the town of Chernyakhovsk has ruled that the coat of arms of the old town in Russia's far western exclave of Kaliningrad is illegal because it carries "elements of ...

Although some people refer to a “family crest” and a “coat of arms” interchangeably, there is a difference. A crest is an element or part of a coat of arms, but not the entire arms. On a coat of arms, ...

I say "real," because a search for " [surname] crest" or " [surname] coat of arms" returns hundreds of online stores and such that all seem to use one or two common templates for their crests, with ...