(last updated on October 9, 1999)
presents
Translating the European grants listed in Rietstap's "Armorial General" are ...
Associate Amateur Herald
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If you don't see your surname listed in the A to Z index below, then let me know and I'll endeavor to find it for you....Just keep in mind that there's only one of me and millions of you and that I'm doing this free of charge....
The books I have access to are as follows:
"Armorial General" by J.B. Rietstap
"Armorial Families" by Fox-Davies
"Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, 1980" edited by Patrick Montague-Smith
"Den Introducerade Svenska Adelns Attartavlor" by Gustaf Elgenstierna (Chapman thru Z)
"Genealogical & Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain & Ireland" by John Burke, Esq.
"General Armory" by Sir John Bernard Burke
"Landed Gentry" by Sir John Bernard Burke
If you have a link to add to this page or if you have further information regarding the emblazoned coats of arms seen here or if you wish to point out an error in my graphic representations, then ... please contact me.
Please note that I'm not using a heraldry program to emblazon the coats of arms that appear on this webpage...I'm simply using Paint Shop Pro and am working more or less from scratch...I'm not a trained artist, so ... expect some delays with certain blazons and crests.
Click on the red martlet to view the 107 emblazoned
grants on this
webpage....
Do you speak French? Click here for requested European grants that I can't translate.
I acknowledge and thank Graham Johnston, the Herald Painter to the Lyon Court, whose drawings, along with the illustrations found in "Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage", may have been used as a basis for elements in the coats of arms appearing on this webpage. Cf. "Complete Guide to Heraldry" by A.C. Fox-Davies .
Noncommercial use of the following coats of arms is welcomed. However, ... if you're associated with one of those "so-called" genealogy companies and you wish to use the following coats of arms - FORGET IT! You can pander your bogus books without my help!
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