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Mildly Interesting - this book I found at a market has a diagram explaining how familial coats of arms were merged when people got married, the detailed explanation is on the side | /r/mildlyinteresting

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The Science of Heraldry LEFT: The system by which families may bear quarterings is based upon marriages to heraldic heiresses. A marries B who has MIN OM B A brothers and is consequently not an heiress. A and B's marital coat shows the arms as impaled, but this arrangement ceases upon B's death. A and B have two sons; the first marries heiress C, and the marital coat shows the arms of A with an inescutcheon of pretence showing the arms of C, as A is said to be pretending to represent the family of C after C's father has died. After C's death their son can quarter the MN OM AB marital coat marital coat arms of C; the paternal arms A are placed in the first and fourth quarters, with C in second and third. This son then marries XM NO heiress D and the marital coat shows the quartered coat of AC with D on an inescutcheon of pretence. When D dies their son can then add the arms of D to his XM C marital coat other quarterings so that his shield quartered (1)A, (2) C, (3)D, (4)A. This system continues, and uarterings can be added whenever the family A marries marital coat is XM C CA other heiresses. The second generation of family A shows a second son (top right). He has married a Miss X, an heiress, who is already entitled to quarter the arms M, N and O. Their son, after X has died, can therefore quarter with his arms of which his AXM D marital coat marital coat A all those quarterings mother brought to the family. continues until one AXM & C This process branch of A marries the heiress of the other branch of A, the son of this union being able to quarter A, C, D, E, A, X, M, N, O, P. Although the word 'quartering' would indicate only four divisions, in heraldry all the E N/OP DA E arms placed on one shield are termed as such, regardless of marital number. Coat AC D E CEA

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