House of Verlaine

• Shield shapeHeaterThe usual knightly shield of the 13th and 14th centuries. The shape shows period and fashion, not a symbol.
• ColourAzureLoyalty and truth: the blue of the sky and the sea.
• ColourGulesCourage and military strength: the red of a fighter's blood.
• DivisionQuarterlyFour parts: often the lands or marriages of a family, brought together.
• ChargeStag’s head · ArgentThe pursuit of what is good: the stag that showed Saint Hubert the cross, and the hunt.

These meanings are a later tradition. Medieval heralds mostly chose a charge for how it looked, or as a pun on the family's name.

The number of figures, where they stand and which way they face are choices of design, with no fixed meaning.