civic and religious arms granted in 2009

Ton de Witte

go to http://www.hogeraadvanadel.nl/HRvA_jaarverslag_2009.pdf for the anual report of the Hoge Raad van Adel (High council of nobility). Scroll down to see the grants of 2009.
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Ton.

Kaj Malachowski · Joined: 17 Mar 2010 Posts: 85 Location: Warsaw, Poland

Ton de Witte · Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 8:23 pm Post subject:

Well the council does this because they are the only body of state that deals with heraldry specific that of the nobility. When the kindom of the Netherlands was formed in 1815 the then king Willem I ordered every community etc to get a royal grant he delegated this to the HRvA making them the defacto heraldic authority in the Netherlands. The HRvA does not register arms of commoners only those of noble families, communities, provinces, waterboards and other bodies of a certain status. So you have the situation that arms of a diocese and basilica are granted but those of the bishops are not because they are the arms of a commoner.
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Ton de Witte · Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 8:27 pm Post subject:

btw if you replace the year in the url
http://www.hogeraadvanadel.nl/HRvA_jaarverslag_2009.pdf
you can get older annual reports with illustrations of arms.
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Ljubodrag Grujic · IAAH Member Joined: 29 Dec 2007 Posts: 54 Location: Serbia

Danke well, this is very interesting. Spent too much time perusing it this morning!
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