I have been named a Court Baron or Court Baroness, or I will be a Viscount or Viscountess soon, and want to have a coronet made. What are the rules?
There are no hard-and-fast rules in the West Kingdom for Baronial or Viscounty Coronets. The following is advice that can be ignored completely … There are no period styles for Baronial or Viscounty Coronets that were defined except in England, and even that is a bit sketchy and out-of-period (see below). Some SCA Kingdoms have specific definitions, but the West does not. Fox-Davies (A Complete Guide to Heraldry) states there should be pearls or silver balls to represent pearls on the top of the Baronial Coronet, and he states four, but this was based on Charles the II and Barons of Ireland by James the II. Some SCA Kingdoms specify 12 or 16 or whatever. Some don’t specify anything, the West being one of them. Fox-Davies also specifies for a Viscounty Coronet that it have 9 pearls on top, all set closely together. I love this wording: “Coronets of rank are used very indiscriminately on the Continent, particularly in France and the Low Countries. Their use by no means implies the same
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