Juliana de Luna

Juliana de Luna is a herald and student of dance. She received a Laurel for her heraldic research in 2009; much of her research can be found here:[1]. She is currently Lions Blood Herald for the An Tir College of Heralds (at least until Twelfth Night 2015). She lives in Wealdsmere.

Doña Juliana de Luna is a sixteenth century Spanish courtier, with a small income derived from her father's encomienda in Mexico (he was a conquistador). A woman with her small scholarly gifts entertains (or perhaps amuses) people enough to stay at court. She is quite the humanist, and wants (like Emilia Pia) to have readings from The Courtier on her deathbed rather than readings from the Bible. She is a minor descendant of the prominent de Luna family, who include a prime minister for the father of Isabel la Catolica and an antipope. She bears a (greatly) differenced version of the de Luna arms. Her arms, Gules, six crescents inverted two, two, and two checky argent and sable (red field, six crescents points down colored with checks of white and black,) are derived from the de Luna arms (which have a single white crescent inverted and a white base); all the odd things about it are typical of Spanish arms.