( ´ω`) On those rare occasions where the rule of tincture has been violated, the offending charge has perhaps most often been a chief, which has led some commentators to question whether the rule should apply to a chief, or even whether a chief should be considered a charge at all, but rather a division of the field. (These violations usually occur in the case of landscape heraldry and augmentations, although French civic heraldry, with its frequent chiefs of France [with either three fleurs-de-lys or on an azure field or azure, seme-de-lys or], often violate this rule when the field is of a colour; the arms of Harvard Law School, with its gules chief on an azure field, is another example.) However, this is a radically minorial view.
( ´ω`) The title of King of Arms, or, as it was more anciently written, King of Heralds, was no doubt originally given to the chief or principal officer, who presided over the heralds of a kingdom, or some principal province, which heraldic writers formerly termed marches.
( ´ω`) Sir Henry Spelman is of the opinion that the title of King of Arms was attributed to such heraldic offices in England as belonged immediately to the person of the King's majesty, while those who appertained to princes of the blood royal, or to the nobility, were styled simply Heralds. another learned author states that the title of King of Heralds (of later times called King of Arms) was given to that personages who was the chief or principal officer presiding over the heralds of any Kingdom, or of any particular province usually termed the marches, or of any order of Knighthood.
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