Compone
（重定向自Gobony）
![Coat of arms of Beaufort, earls and dukes of Somerset, being the royal arms of England differenced with a bordure compony argent and azure](/Images/godic/202501/15/John_Beaufort_Arms.svg2956.png")
![The Capetian counts of Évreux differenced the French royal arms with a bend compony.](/Images/godic/202501/15/Armoiries_Evreux_Navarre2956.png")
In heraldry, an ordinary componé, compony, gobony or anciently gobonne is composed of a row of panes of alternating tinctures; most often affecting the bordure.
Certain charges cannot be compony, for practical reasons, such as, in general, common charges, and the chief as they are generally not long and thin as a row of compony is.