Quote Originally Posted by Cygnus View Post
Thank you, Scott, for your concise answer.

If you and everyone else on the forum will oblige me:

Is a badge inherited with the arms (by the eldest son, for example) or would the eldest son have a different badge from his father?

Are there specific criteria for the grant of a badge, or is it something that anybody can request?

Thank you, once again!
Usually in Scotland, Lord Lyon King of Arms grants badges only to peers, baronage, chiefs, chieftains, and "the older landed houses." There might be some question now about grants to the baronage since the Abolition of Feudal Tenure Act of 2000.

The Canadian Heraldic Authority and the College of Arms, on the other hand, are much less restrictive with grants of badges to petitioners.