The membership was restricted to Lutheran noblemen with sixteen noble quarterings. The sides are decorated with their heraldic quarterings. During that time there were further quarterings of troops and required contributions. Some attributed arms were incorporated into the quarterings of their descendants' arms. A Scottish shield, therefore, is limited to sixteen quarterings. The Powys-Lybbe family appear, likewise, to usually use only the quarterings of Powys and Lybbe. The 2nd and 3rd show the quarterings of Brittany and Luxembourg-St. In heraldry a basic shield can be divided into four, essentially equal, sections or quarterings. His estates in Germany, such as Mindelheim, were represented in his arms by additional quarterings. This coat, when he was made Marquis of Montagu, was later augmented with further quarterings.