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HERALDS COLLEGE [2 records]

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Record 1 1992-01-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Heraldry
CONT

It having become necessary that some authority should be established to regulate the wearing of arms, to preserve a record of the rights of families to the same, to assign armorial ensigns to such persons as should be considered worthy to bear such and to prevent the unwarrantable assumption of the same, King Richard III. by Royal Charter in 1483 incorporated the College of Arms of Heralds’ College, which exercises control over the use of armorial bearings in England. Similar functions are discharged in Scotland by the Court of the Lord Lyon, and in Ireland by the Office of Arms. No arms are of any legal authority or are of any value unless they are recorded in one of these offices.

Key term(s)
  • Lyon court

French

Domaine(s)
  • Héraldique
CONT

Autorisé par l'ARC [Aviation royale du Canada] et enregistré à la Cour de Lord Lyon, roi d'armes d'Écosse.

OBS

L'équivalent français est tiré d'un document intitulé Symbols of Nationhood/Les Symboles de la Nation.

Spanish

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Record 2 1985-04-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private-Sector Bodies and Committees
OBS

A corporation in England dependent upon the crown and consisting of three kings of arms, six heralds, and four pursuivants under the earl marshal’s headship who have retained from the middle ages certain of the ceremonial duties of heralds but whose principal responsibility in modern times is the designing, grant, and registration of armorial bearings.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités du secteur privé
OBS

"Collège des hérauts" qui figure dans HASTA, 1962, p. 218 et "collège héraldique" qui figure dans BT-51, 1957, p. 22 ne sont probablement pas des équivalents reconnus officiellement, puisqu'il s'agit du nom d'une société britannique.

OBS

Collège des hérauts (non officiel)

Spanish

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