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<p>Starlord: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Pliny]] speaks of a creature, which he calls the ''bonasus'', of Paeonia (in [[Asia]]), having the mane of a [[horse]], but in all other respects the look of a [[bull]], with [[horn]]s so curled as to represent no danger, but capable of emitting excrement whilst running away, of such noxiousness that pursuers were scorched as if by [[fire]].&lt;br&gt;<br /> Subsequent accounts have added a horse's tail to the mane, and [[poison]]ous gas to the excrement, and the variant name of '''bonacon'''. Another beastiary spelling is '''bonnacon'''.&lt;p&gt;<br /> <br /> The bonacon appears in [[England|English]] [[heraldry]] and only from the mid-[[16th century]]. Its sole apparent appearance is as a crest granted to Richard Chandelor in 1560, with the head the only depicted part. There seems to be no other heraldic use outside of that instance.<br /> <br /> A second instance of a bonacon used in English heraldry occurred a year after the first in 1561 when Sir Gilbert Dethick, Garter King of Arms granted Hugh Hollinshead of Heywood Hall, Nether Alderley Cheshire a crest with a bonacon head on it. Roughly the crest was A bonacon erased gules, horned and maned, gorged a (ducal)coronet or.<br /> <br /> ==Bonacons in the SCA==<br /> Wilhelm von Schlussel ruled that the bonacon was too offensive to be used as an [[heraldic]] [[charge]] in 1980. More recent speculation about the charge implies that a single use as a partial monster in a crest does not set a pattern of heraldic use appropriate for its inclusion in SCA heraldry, although no specific ruling has been made on this.<br /> [[category:device heraldry]]</div>

Starlord https://cunnan.lochac.sca.org/index.php?title=Bonacon&diff=40709 2010-07-17T12:18:38Z

<p>Starlord: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Pliny]] speaks of a creature, which he calls the ''bonasus'', of Paeonia (in [[Asia]]), having the mane of a [[horse]], but in all other respects the look of a [[bull]], with [[horn]]s so curled as to represent no danger, but capable of emitting excrement whilst running away, of such noxiousness that pursuers were scorched as if by [[fire]].&lt;br&gt;<br /> Subsequent accounts have added a horse's tail to the mane, and [[poison]]ous gas to the excrement, and the variant name of '''bonacon'''. Another beastiary spelling is '''bonnacon'''.&lt;p&gt;<br /> <br /> The bonacon appears in [[England|English]] [[heraldry]] and only from the mid-[[16th century]]. Its sole apparent appearance is as a crest granted to Richard Chandelor in 1560, with the head the only depicted part. There seems to be no other heraldic use outside of that instance.<br /> <br /> A second instance of a bonacon used in English occurred a year after the first in 1561 when Sir Gilbert Dethick, Garter King of Arms granted Hugh Hollinshead of Heywood Hall, Nether Alderley Cheshire a crest with a bonacon head on it. Roughly the crest was A bonacon erased gules, horned and maned, gorged a (ducal)coronet or.<br /> <br /> ==Bonacons in the SCA==<br /> Wilhelm von Schlussel ruled that the bonacon was too offensive to be used as an [[heraldic]] [[charge]] in 1980. More recent speculation about the charge implies that a single use as a partial monster in a crest does not set a pattern of heraldic use appropriate for its inclusion in SCA heraldry, although no specific ruling has been made on this.<br /> [[category:device heraldry]]</div>

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