Inheraldry, anordinarycomponée[1][2] (ancientlygobonnée),[3] anglicised tocompony andgobony, is composed of a row of squares, rectangles or other quadrilaterals, of alternatingtinctures, often found as abordure, most notably in the arms of the EnglishHouse of Beaufort.
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Like abaton sinister, a bordure compony can be used as adifference to delineatecadency and often indicates anillegitimate son, acknowledged but legally barred from inheritance of thefeudal estates of his father. The firstEarl of Somerset was later legitimized (allowed to inherit the feudal estates) by an act of Parliament, yet retained his original arms as also displayed by his legitimate descendants.
Certain charges cannot be compony, for practical reasons, for example common charges and the chief as they are generally not long and thin in shape. The alternative for thicker shapes ispaly orbarry, as shown for example in the arms ofStrangways, featuring lionspaly argent and gules.[4]
Usually only two tinctures are used, but the arms ofFormia,Italy, show an unusual bordure which could be blazonedcompony of 24 vert, gules, argent, vert, argent, gules.
A variant iscounter-compony, with two rows of panes.
A bend or fessbillety-counter-billety is, in effect,chequy of three rows of stretched (rather than square) panes, as in the arms of Cullimore in Canada:Azure; a fess billetty counter billetty gules and argent, between, in chief, two crescents and, in base, a wheel or; a bordure or for difference.[5]
Sometimes compony-like arrangements, such as in the arms of the Duke de Vargas Machuca,[6] are not so described in blazon. The coat of arms of the108th Aviation Regiment of the United States Army is blazonedbordered gyronny of ten.
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