Baronand Femme

Baron and Femme is a term used to express the impaling or conjunction of the individual coat-of-arms of a husband and wife when placed side by side. If both are upon one shield, the husband's. coat occupies the dexter half (which is that on the left-hand side when facing the escutcheon), and the wife's the sinister. If the wife be of higher rank than the husband, or if the latter be a knight. of any order or a bishop, and in one or two other exceptional cases, two separate escutcheons are used to display the joint armorial bearings. The arms of a wife when an heiress are in any case disposed in a different manner.