Componée

In heraldry, an ordinary componée[1][2] (anciently gobonnée),[3] anglicised to compony and gobony, is composed of a row of squares, rectangles or other quadrilaterals, of alternating tinctures, often found as a bordure, most notably in the arms of the English House of Beaufort.

Like a baton sinister, a bordure compony can be used as a difference to delineate cadency and often indicates an illegitimate son, acknowledged but legally barred from inheritance of the feudal estates of his father.

A bend or fess billety-counter-billety is, in effect, chequy of three rows of stretched (rather than square) panes, as in the arms of Cullimore in Canada: Azure; a fess billetty counter billetty gules and argent, between, in chief, two crescents and, in base, a wheel or; a bordure or for difference.

[5] Sometimes compony-like arrangements, such as in the arms of the Duke de Vargas Machuca,[6] are not so described in blazon.

The coat of arms of the 108th Aviation Regiment of the United States Army is blazoned bordered gyronny of ten.