Quartered Coat of Arms
Quartered arms were used when a heraldic heiress married a man with his own coat of arms. The arms of the two separate families were combined to produce a new family arms for their children. If the arms contained a single quartering, it would be divided into four parts. The upper left and lower right contained the arms of the husband, and the other two those of the wife. Some arms contained more than two quartered arms; technically, there was no limit. There were several historical examples with dozens of quartered arms and some that contained over one hundred. Quartered arms were combined in the chronological order of the quartering.