Memoirs Of John Lord De Joinville Grand Seneschal Of Champagne PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1807 edition. Excerpt: ... DISSERTATION XXIV. ON THE GRANTING OF ARMORIAL BEARINGS TO FAMILIES, AND RESPECTING SUCH AS HAVE BEEN GRANTED BY PRINCES TO VARIOUS PERSONS, BY WAY OF FAVOUR OR RECOMPENCE. At was likewife a fort of honorary adoption, which princes and kings have practifed when they granted their arms to be borne by different gentlemen, as well their fubjects as foreigners; for, as armorial bearings are the true marks of a family, fuch as are honoured by the permiffion of bearing them, ought, in like manner, to participate in all the prerogatives of that family. They are the means that have been chofen to recompenfe the actions of thofe to whom the granters wifhed to make fome return, and alfo to attach them, and their defcendants, ftill more firmly to their fervice. This * attribution de partie d'armoiries, ' according to Guy Coquille in his hiftory of the Nivernois, * fe fait avec diminution notable par changement de couleurs, ou diminution du nombre des pieces qui font es armes des bienfaicteurs, en forte qu' on peut connoiftre qu' Us ne font pas du Hgnage, mais qu 'ils tiennent par bienfaicV Princes have likewife often granted this honour as a mark of protection. For, as on the one hand, thofe perfons fo gratified with bearing the arms of the prince have a particular obligation to ferve him, from remembrance of the honour they have received at his hand, and to fupport the dignity of him, whofe arms they bear; fo, on the other hand, the prince is bound to VOL. II. C C protedt him to whom he has granted his arms, acknowledging him as one whom he has gained, and who, in fome fort, participates in the prerogatives of his family, the honour of which he is obliged to preferve. This privilege of bearing the arms, or a part of the arms of the prince, has been..