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Per the cross family precedent (http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2009/05/09-05cl.html):

From Wreath: Crosses and Substantial Difference

Given the widespread support for the proposal, we are implementing Batonvert's proposal on crosses that appeared on the Cover Letter for the August 2008 LoAR. Substantial difference under X.2 will henceforth be granted between crosses appearing below that do not belong to the same family. The families are:

Plain crosses couped, including Latinate and humetty.

Crosses flory, floretty, patonce, clechy, Calatrava, and Santiago.

Crosses crosslet and bottony.

Crosses moline, sarcelly, recercelly, anchory, fourchy, and miller.

Crosses formy/paty. (see the note, below)

Crosses doubled, patriarchal, and Lorraine.

The cross potent/billety.

The Tau cross.

The cross of Calvary.

The cross of Toulouse.

The cross gringoly.

The cross pomelly/bourdonny.

The Maltese cross.

We note that, in period, the term paty could refer to crosses in the flory family. The formy/paty family is not intended to overlap these two groups, we are using the SCA blazon term.

Standard period variants of a particular style of cross will not be considered separate; no difference is granted for fitching, changing between equal-armed and Latinate, etc.

Substantial difference between crosses is not limited to the above list. It is, instead, intended to provide a set of guidelines on the most frequently seen crosses in heraldry. All rulings of substantial difference which are not addressed by the above list remain in force, as do all rulings on significant difference.


A new feature set has been defined: cross_family

The values are:

 calvary|cross_family
 crosslet|cross_family
 doubled|cross_family
 flory|cross_family
 formy|cross_family
 gringoly|cross_family
 maltese|cross_family
 moline|cross_family
 other cross|cross_family
 plain cross|cross_family
 pomelly|cross_family
 potent|cross_family
 tau|cross_family
 toulouse|cross_family

I've gone through and extracted every distinct phrase in blazons that map to each (and sometimes more than one) feature.


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