(In the last named coat the bordure is not removed at the palar line as in modern usage to be hereafter noticed, p. 474.) So also, about 1300, LOUIS, Count of NEVERS, son of ROBERT DE BETHUNE, Count of FLANDERS, by YOLANTE, daughter of EUDES of BURGUNDY, bore on his secretum a shield impaling the parental coats viz., BURGUNDY-ANCIENT (the bordure engrailed for difference), and FLANDERS (Or, a lion rampant sable).

This is a curious arrangement, the place of honour being given to the maternal coat, in which the engrailed bordure for difference is also worthy of remark. It should be noticed that in the present case the bordure is removed at the palar line, unlike the example quoted immediately above. LOUIS (DE CRESSY) Count of NEVERS and RETHEL, and afterwards of FLANDERS (as LOUIS II.), son of the above LOUIS and YOLANTE, married MARGARET of FRANCE, daughter of PHILIP V. Her counter seals bear FLANDERS impaling FRANCEANCIENT, but on one of them FRANCE has the precedence. (VRÉE, Généalogie des Comtes de Flandre, plate xcviii.)

Sometimes quartered coats are dimidiated, in which case the first and third quarters of the husband's coat are impaled with the second and fourth of the wife's. In these the appearance is that of a plain quartered coat, and may easily mislead the unwary. Thus the seal of

MARGARET of BAVARIA, Countess of HOLLAND, and wife of JOHN, Count de NEVERS, in 1385 (afterwards Duke of BURGUNDY), bears a shield en bannière which appears a simple instance of quartering, but is really a dimidiated coat. The two coats to the dexter side of the palar line are: In chief BURGUNDY-MODERN (FRANCE-ANCIENT, a bordure compony argent and gules), and in base BURGUNDY-ANCIENT, as above. On the sinister side the coat in chief is BAVARIA (Bendy-lozengy argent and azure); and the one in base contains the quartered arms of FLANDERS (Or, a lion rampant sable);

and HOLLAND (Or, a lion rampant gules); the pourfilar line dividing these latter quarters being omitted, as in many like instances. (See ante, p. 247, and compare the shield of Queen PHILIPPA of HAINAULT, wife of EDWARD III., in Westminster Abbey.) Similarly, after her first marriage with the Dauphin, the seal of JACQUELINE of BAVARIA, Countess of HOLLAND, has on the dexter side the coat of FRANCE in chief, and that of DAUPHINÉ (Or, a dolphin embowed azure, crested gules) in base; on the sinister BAVARIA, in chief over the quartered coat of FLANDERS and HOLLAND as above.

The seal of JEANNE, Duchess of BRITTANY, wife of CHARLES of BLOIS, in 1369, bears a lozenge charged with two coats which might be described either as dimidiated, or impaled. The dexter side is Ermine plain; the sinister Ermine, within a border gules (which of course stops at the palar line).

I recently noticed a somewhat similar instance in a modern window of the Cathedral at Tours, where the arms of GUY DE MONTMORENCY-LAVAL are dimidiated with those of JEANNE DE LAVAL D'OLIVET, his wife, in 1384. (She was widow of the Constable BERTRAND DU GUESCLIN.) The arms are: Per pale dimidiated: 1. Or, on a cross gules between sixteen allerions azure, five escallops argent; 2. The same, within a bordure sable charged with fifteen plates.

In 1298, the seal of ANNETTE DE LAVAL, Dame de COETMEN, has a shield of MONTMORENCY-LAVAL (as above) dimidiating COETMEN; Gules, seven annulets, 3, 3, 1, argent. (MORICE, Bretagne, No. cxxii.) In 1306 the seal of PAIEN DE LA ROCHE bears: Vair, dimidiating an eagle displayed. (Ibid., No. ccxv.)

It must be noticed that often only one of the coats impaled is affected by dimidiation. Thus (circa 1310) the counter-seal of MARGARET of HAINAULT, third wife of ROBERT, Comte d'ARTOIS, bears ARTOIS dimidiated