The Papacy and the French house of Anjou, both supporters of the Guelfs, would grant augmentations of arms as well. In the rest of Europe, augmentation practices differed. In Castile, the augmentation would often be a bordure of gules, semy of castles or, or a bordure gobony argent a lion rampant purpure and gules a castle or. In Scotland, the usual practice was to grant the royal tressure, that is, the double tressure flory counterflory. The king of Portugal added an inescutcheon of Portugal to Da Gama's coat of arms as a reward for his successful voyage to the Orient.
English augmentations are another story.
For one thing, bordures or chiefs of England, although present, were not the only forms of augmentation. English augmentations could also be single charges added to the coat of arms, alluding to something which the armiger had done. One of the earliest of these augmentations, supposedly, is one made by Edward I to one Dodge-the addition of a woman's breast distilling gouttes argent, for his efficient tax collecting and nourishing of the king's coffers. Sometimes the augmentation was an entire coat of arms alluding to the deeds of the armiger. Azure three pelicans in their piety argent.