SHIELDS: COAT of ARMS: FACTS
  There is no one coat-of-arms attributed to the SHIELDS surname or any other surname. According to Primogenitor Law of the time, the eldest son usually inherited a particular coat-of-arms along with the mother's and father's estates and titles, as was the custom in those days. If other sons wanted a coat-of-arms, each would have one designed for himself, and again via Primogenitor Law the inheritance would pass to his eldest son. There could be many coats-of-arms for a surname. We would have to know if our Daniel Shields was the eldest son of an eldest son of an eldest son, etc., and if by law he had inherited a coat-of-arms, a title and estates in order to attribute a particular coat-of-arms to Daniel. |
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