From Wreath: Crosses and Substantial Difference
Given the widespread support for the proposal, we are implementing Batonvert's proposal on crosses that appeared on the Cover Letter for the August 2008 LoAR. Substantial difference under X.2 will henceforth be granted between crosses appearing below that do not belong to the same family. The families are:
Plain crosses couped, including Latinate and humetty.
Crosses flory, floretty, patonce, clechy, Calatrava, and Santiago.
Crosses crosslet and bottony.
Crosses moline, sarcelly, recercelly, anchory, fourchy, and miller.
Crosses formy/paty. (see the note, below)
Crosses doubled, patriarchal, and Lorraine.
The cross potent/billety.
The Tau cross.
The cross of Calvary.
The cross of Toulouse.
The cross gringoly.
The cross pomelly/bourdonny.
The Maltese cross.
We note that, in period, the term paty could refer to crosses in the flory family. The formy/paty family is not intended to overlap these two groups, we are using the SCA blazon term.
Standard period variants of a particular style of cross will not be considered separate; no difference is granted for fitching, changing between equal-armed and Latinate, etc.
Substantial difference between crosses is not limited to the above list. It is, instead, intended to provide a set of guidelines on the most frequently seen crosses in heraldry. All rulings of substantial difference which are not addressed by the above list remain in force, as do all rulings on significant difference.
A new feature set has been defined: cross_family
The values are:
calvary|cross_family crosslet|cross_family doubled|cross_family flory|cross_family formy|cross_family gringoly|cross_family maltese|cross_family moline|cross_family other cross|cross_family plain cross|cross_family pomelly|cross_family potent|cross_family tau|cross_family toulouse|cross_family
I've gone through and extracted every distinct phrase in blazons that map to each (and sometimes more than one) feature.
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