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The
Duncan Armorial Roll (Scotland)
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From the Hague
Roll and The Lyon Court of Scotland
by Martin Goldstraw of
Whitecairns, FSA Scot and John Duncan of
Sketraw, FSA Scot
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Illustrated below are the Duncan
armorial bearings (Coats of Arms) as recorded in
the Register of all Armorial Bearings in
Scotland (the Lyon Register) along with other
armorial bearing listed in other sources for
those whose arms are not of Scottish origin. On
this page it is only the shields which are
illustrated; the full achievement (including the
crest etc.) will eventually be shown along with
perhaps a short biography on individual pages
dedicated to each armiger. For the list of
Duncan Crests from the Lyon Court Register
please click
here.
These arms are a perfect
illustration of the way in which all new grants
and matriculations of Scottish arms try to
follow and reflect the “chiefly” or “stem” arms.
We can see that the Scottish Duncan arms are
predominately based upon a red shield and in the
main have a number of common charges such as the
cinquefoils and the hunting horn. Once familiar
with the composition of one Duncan coat of arms,
it is possible to recognise others.
One important point to note is
that once aware of this common Scottish practice
it becomes even more apparent that those bearing
the name of Duncan and its variants did not
follow Robertson of Struan in the design of
their arms when he changed his name and
abandoned the name of Duncan. Please also see The
Duncan - Donnachaidh -Robertson, Scenario.
Note:
The Lord Lyon of Scotland is a Minister of
State and member of Her Majesty Queen
Elizabeth II Royal Household. He is Head of
the Heraldic Executive and the Judge of the
Court of the Lord Lyon, which has jurisdiction
over all heraldic business in Scotland and
maintains the Scottish Public Registers of
Arms and Genealogies. The position of lord
Lyon in Scotland dates from around 1437 with
the present 'Register of Arms' at Lyon Court
dating from 1672.
A
Scottish Armiger is a person who has a coat of
arms granted & recorded in the Public
Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland in
the Court of the Lord Lyon in Edinburgh.
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[To date the only Duncan
armiger we have found with arms based on
those of Robertson are the arms of
Gordon Stewart Duncan matriculated in
the Lyon Register on 25
June 1933 30/64] For the purposes of
comparison we have illustrated the arms
of Robertson of Struan (Strowan).
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If you have information on any of
the 'Ancestors' or 'Descendents' of the
arimigers listed, please contact
the society.
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1592 |
Duncane:
Argent, a chevron Sable
between two stars Gules and a
hunting-horn Sable, stringed Gules. 1592
[Hague Roll]
Crest: none known
Motto: none known
View the original Arms as
drawn in the
Hague Roll of 1592
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1594 |
William Duncan Impaling
Katherine Wedderburn
Gules, a
chevron Or between two cinquefoils in
chief Argent and a hunting-horn stringed
in base of the same, tipped and
garnished Azure. Argent, on a chevron
between three roses Gules barbed Vert
seeded Or, a fleur-de-lis of the field.
[Wedderburn]
Crest: none known
Motto: none known
Information:
Surgeon
William Duncan & Katherine
Wedderburn
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1624 |
Duncan of Mott:
Gules on
a chevron Or three buckles Azure between
two Cinquefoils in chief and hunting
horn in base of the second. 1624 [Pont's
Manuscripts]
Crest: none known
Motto: none known
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1672 |
William
Duncan of Seaside:
Gules, a chevron Or
between two cinquefoils in chief and a
hunting-horn in base Argent garnished
Azure [1672 – 7]
Crest:
A ship
dismasted (Ancient User) Not registered
in Lyon Register (Crest
Badge)
Motto:
Disce pati
Matriculated: Lord Lyon
King of Arms, Scotland, 1672
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1673 |
Alexander
Duncan of Seaside (Provost of Dundee)
impaling Anna Drummond of Megginch:
Gules, a chevron between
two cinquefoils in chief Argent and a
hunting-horn in base of the same, tipped
and garnished Azure
Or, three bars wavy [Drummond]
Crest:
A ship
dismasted (Ancient User) Not registered
in Lyon Register (Crest
Badge)
Motto:
Disce pati
Matriculated: Lord Lyon
King of Arms, Scotland 1673
The Arms on the
Duncan of Seaside Tomb, The Howff
Dundee
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1673 |
John
Duncan, Bailzie of Aberdein:
Gules, a chevron between
a saltire inter two talbots’ heads
collared in chief and a sinister hand in
base couped Argent, a mullet for
difference.
Crest: none
Motto: Quod Tibine
Alteri
Matriculated:
Lord Lyon King of Arms, Scotland 1673
Vol. 1 Folio 287
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1692 |
Major
Robert Duncanson, Argyll’s Foot:
Argent, a chevron Sable
between two sheaves of arrows in chief
Gules, banded of the field and a
hunting-horn in base of the second,
stringed and garnished Or. [1692]
Crest:
A dextor hand appaumes (Crest
Badge)
Motto:
Mens et Manus.
Information: Maj
Duncanson (Glencoe Massacre)
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1698 |
Duncan
of Ardownie:
Gules, on a chevron
between three cinquefoils in chief
Argent and a hunting-horn in base of the
same, tipped and garnished Azure, three
buckles of the third.
Crest: A
grey-hound issuing from the wreath,
proper, collared Or. (Crest
Badge)
Motto: Vivat Veritas
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1786 |
George
Duncan, Comptroller of Taxes:
Gules, on a chevron
Argent between two cinquefoils in chief
of the second and a hunting-horn in base
Or, stringed and viroled Vert, three
escutcheons of the field [1786]
Crest:
A dexter
hand grasping a scymitar ppr. hilted and
pommelled Or. (Crest
Badge)
Motto:
Deo Juvante Vinco
Grant:
Lord Lyon
King of Arms, Scotland, 1786
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1809 |
Alexander
Duncan of Parkhill:
Gules, a chevron
engrailed Or between two cinquefoils in
chief Argent, and a hunting-horn in base
of the last, garnished Azure. [1809]
Crest:
A ship in Distress on the Sea. (Crest
Badge)
Motto:
Disce Pati
Grant:
Lord
Lyon King of Arms, Scotland, 1809.
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1817 |
Beveridge-Duncan
of Damside:
Quarterly -
1st & 4th Gules, a chevron Erminois
between two cinquefoils in chief and a
hunting-horn in base Argent, stringed
Azure [Duncan (1817)]
2nd & 3rd Vert, two beavers
combatant Or, the base wavy Argent and
Azure [Beveridge (1813)]
Crest:
1st A Ship under sail in the sea
ppr. the main top sail and the fore top
sail charged with a sinquefoil gu. and
the fore tack with a hunting hornof the
last stringed az, for Duncan: 2nd out of
a mural crown or. a demi beaver ppr. for
Beveridge (Crest
Badge)
Motto:
Disce Pati
: Perseverando
Grant:
Lord
Lyon King of Arms, Scotland. 1817
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1853 |
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Alexander Duncan-Morison of
Naughton:
Quarterly –
1st & 4th Quarters – Argent,
on a saltire couped Sable
between three moors’ heads
couped of the second, banded Or,
a heart of the last. [1853]
2nd Quarter: Gules, a chevron Or
between two cinquefoils in chief
and a hunting-horn in base
Argent, garnished Azure, within
a bordure of the second [1853]
3rd Quarter -Grand Quarterly –
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1st and 4th
Quarters: Argent, a saltire
engrailed Sable,
2nd Quarter; Argent, a saltire
engrailed between four roses Gules
3rd Quarter; Or, a bend chequy
Argent and Sable. All within a
bordure Gules [1853] |
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Dexter: Three Saracens heads
conjoined in one neck erased and
wreathed about the temples with
Laurel all proper. One looking
upwards, the others to the
dexter and sinister sides.
Motto: Prætio
Prudentia Præstat
Crest
Centre: A ship in
distress in the sea proper. (Crest Badge)
Motto:
Disce Pati
Crest
Sinister: An
Eagles head erased Or.
Motto:
Suffer
Grant:
Lord Lyon King of Arms, Scotland
1853 Vol5 Folio 45.
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1876 |
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Catherine Henrietta Adamina
Morison-Duncan of Naughton:
Quarterly –
1st and 4th Quarters -Gules, a
chevron Or between two
cinquefoils in chief Argent and
a hunting-horn in base of the
third, garnished and stringed
Azure, within a bordure of the
second [1876]
2nd Quarter – Argent, on a
saltire couped Sable between
three moors’ heads couped of the
second banded Or, a heart of the
third [1875]
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3rd
Quarter; Grand Quarterly [all
within a bordure Gules] -
1st and 4th Quarters; Argent, a
saltire engrailed Sable
[Haldane1875]
2nd Quarter; Argent, a saltire
between four roses Gules
[Haldane1875]
3rd Quarter; Or, a bend chequy
Sable and Argent [1875] |
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Lord
Lyon King of Arms, Scotland 1876
Vol. 9 Folio 93 |
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1882 |
| Robert Dandas
Haldane-Duncan, Baron of Lundie, Earl of
Camperdown:
1st and 4th
quarters: Gules, two cinquefoils
in chief and a hunting-horn in
base Argent, stringed Azure, in
the centre pendant by a ribbon
Argent and Azure from a naval
crown Or a gold medal, thereon
two figures, the emblems of
Victory and Britannia, with a
wreath of laurel, below the
medal the word “Camperdown”
[1882]
[The above arms are now borne in
the third quarter by Hon. Hew.
A.D.H.H.D. Mercer Henderson
(1882)]
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2nd and 3rd grand
quarters in the centre a crescent
Azure[1882];
1st and 4th quarters; Argent, a
saltire engrailed Sable
2nd quarter; Argent, a saltire
between four roses Gules
3rd quarter; Or, a bend chequy
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Crest:
on waves
of the Sea a Dismasted Ship
proper. (Crest
Badge)
Motto:
Disce Pati
Supporters: On the Dexter side
an Angel Mantle parpure on the
head a Celestral Crown the
right hand supporting an
anchor proper on the feet a
Palm Brach Gold, on the
sinister a sailor habited and
armed proper his lefthand
supporting a staff thereon
hoisted a flag Azure the Dutch
colours wreathed about the
middle of the staff.
Motto
Beneath:
Secundis
dubiisque rectus
Grant:
Lord Lyon
King of Arms, Scotland 1882.
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1897 |
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Alexander W. Anstruther-Duncan:
Quarterly
–
1st and 4th quarters; Argent,
three piles Sable [Anstruther]
2nd and 3rd quarters grand
quarterly;
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1st and 4th
quarters;
Gules, a chevron Or between two
cinquefoils in chief Argent and
a hunting-horn on base of the
third, garnished Azure and
stringed of the second a bordure
of the same for difference
[Duncan1897]
2nd quarter; Argent, three
moors’ heads couped Sable,
banded Or, in the centre a
saltire couped of the second
charged with a man’s heart of
the third [Morison]
3rd quarter grand quarterly;
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1st and 4th quarter
of the 3rd grand quarter; Argent,
a saltire engrailed Sable
2nd quarter of the 3rd grand
quarter; Argent, a saltire between
four roses Gules
3rd quarter of the 3rd grand
quarter; Or, a bend chequy Sable
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Crest:
two
Arms in Armour holding in the
gauntlets a Battle axe proper.
(Crest Badge)
Motto:
Periisem
ni Periisem
Grant:
Lord Lyon
King of Arms, Scotland 1897
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1904 |
William
McDougall Duncan:
Gules, a chevron between
two buckles in chief, and a bugle horn
in base Argent viroled Sable stringed of
the second.
Crest:
a
demi grey hound proper collared Gules
(Crest Badge)
Motto:
Vivat
Veritas
Grant:
Lord
Lyon King of Arms, Scotland 13th July
1904.
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1933 |
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Duncan:
1st and 4th
quarters;
Gules, three wolves’ heads
erased Argent langued Azure, on
a chief second a man’s hand and
wrist couped holding a dagger
point downwards proper between
two mullets of the field – for
Duncan
2nd and 3rd grand quarters all
within a bordure Argent charged
with three wolves’ heads erased
Gules – for Stewart of Wester
Cluny and Fothergil;
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1st and 4th
quarters; Or a fess chequay Azure
and Argent, surmounted by a lion
rampant Gules armed and langued of
the second.
2nd and 3rd quarters; Azure, three
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Crest:
a
man’s hand erect holding the
Scottish Crown proper
(Crest Badge)
Motto:
Gloir
Duais Cruadail
Grant:
Lord Lyon King of
Arms, Scotland 25 June 1933
30/64
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1954 |
Sir
James Alexander
Lawson Duncan of Jordanstone, Baronet:
Gules, on a chevron
between two cinquefoils in chief Argent
pierced Vert, and in base a hunting-horn
of the second lines of the third
garnished Or and stringed Azure, three
buckles of the last their tongues
fessways in bend sinister and bend
dexter respectively.
1958 recognised as baronet of UK and
inescucheon Argent charged with a
sinister hand couped Gules in centre
chief added to the above arms. Bt. 1954
[extinct]
Crest: A demi Greyhound
proper, about its neck a collar Gules
embordured Or.
(Crest Badge)
Motto: Vivat Veritas
Grant:
Lord Lyon
King of Arms, Scotland, 1954
Information:
The
Duncans of Jordanstone &
Drumfork
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1955 |
Sir
John McLean Duncanson:
Argent, on a chevron
Sable between two sheaves each of three
arrows points upwards Gules banded Sable
in chief and a galley in base Vert under
full sail Gules oars in action Sable, a
mascle between two Lochaber axes blades
upwards Or.
Crest: A couped arm naked
proper grasping a galley vert, sail
furled gules, flagged with a pennant
Azure charged with a Saltire Argent. (Crest Badge)
Motto: For Ever
Hopeful
Grant: Lord Lyon King
of Arms, Scotland, 17th May 1955.
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1955 |
Thomas
McLean Duncanson:
Argent, on a chevron
Sable between two sheaves each of three
arrows points upwards Gules banded Sable
in chief and a galley in base Vert under
full sail Gules oars in action Sable, a
mascle between two Lochaber axes blades
upwards Or. Differenced by label of
three points Vert during his apparency.
Crest: A cubit arm naked
proper grasping a galley vert, sail
furled gules, flagged with a pennant
Azure charged with a Saltire Argent. (Crest Badge)
Motto: For Ever Hopeful
Matriculation: Lord Lyon King
of Arms, Scotland, 17th May 1955.
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1956 |
Col.
Sir Alan Gomme Gomme-Duncan of
Dunbarney:
1st and 4th quarters;
Per bend Gules and Or, a wolf’s head
erased Argent, langued Azure in chief
and a hunting-horn of the first stringed
of the fourth in base, on a canton of
the third a round buckle of the fourth
[Duncan of Dunbarney]
2nd and 3rd quarters;
Argent, a lion rampant Sable, on a chief
Gules two sea axes of the first hilted
Or surmounted of a pale of the fourth
charged with a talbot’s head couped of
the second langued Azure – as arms of
affection for Gomme.
Impaled with
Bourne.
Mary Bourne or
Gomme-Duncan of Dunbarney
Per fess wavy Vert and barry wavy of
four Argent and Azure, in chief a hurdle
Or. Impaled by Gomme-Duncan of Dunbarney
Crest Dexter: A couped
arm naked proper grasping a barrulet
couped and embellished of three
fleurs-de-lis Or. (Crest
Badge)
Motto: Animus Facit
Nobilem
Crest Sinister: Two
Couped arms naked proper saltireways
each hand grasping a sea-axe Argent,
hilted Or, in pale.
Motto: Per Constanza E
Speranza
Grant: Lord Lyon King
of Arms, Scotland, 1956
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1957 |
Charles
Freeman Duncan (USA):
Gules, a pallet Argent
between a wolf’s head erased Argent
langued Azure and a boar’s head erased
Or armed proper and langued Sable, on a
chief Argent two round buckles Azure.
Crest:
An ancient
boat Gules planked and nailed Argent
and issuant there from a couped arm
attired Sable, the hand naked and
proper holding a book Argent, bindings
and edges Sable. (Crest
Badge)
Motto: Veritas Vivens
Grant: Lord Lyon King of
Arms, Scotland, 24th May 1957 Vol. 42
Folio 61.
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1963 |
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Charles Duncan:
Quarterly -
1st grand quarter Gules a
chevron Or between two
cinquefoils in chief Argent and
in base a hunting horn of the
third garnished Azure
accompanied by four otters’
heads erased alternately with as
many cushion all in orle of the
third.
2nd grand quarter quarterly over
all dividing the quarters a
cross engrailed quarterly Argent
and Sable charged at the fess
point of a sunflower Or [for
difference for Sinclair] ;
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1st quarter;
Azure, a lymphad at anchor Or
flagged Gules sails furled
Argent oars erect in saltire
sable within a double tressure
flory counter flory of the
second. [Sinclair]
2nd and 3rd quarters; Or, a lion
rampant Gules armed and langued
Azure
4th quarter; Azure, a three
masted ship Or under full sail
Argent [Sinclair]
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1st and 4th
quarters; Gules, a lion rampant
Argent, within a bordure of the
second charged with eight roses
of the first. [Dunbar of
Northfield]
2nd and 3rd quarters; Or, three
cushions Gules within a double
tressure flory counter flory of
the second.
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4th grand
quarter; Argent, three lions’
heads erased Sable langued Gules
[Buchan of Auchmacoy]
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Crest:
Ship under full sail per pale Gules
& Or, sails and rigging Argent. (Crest Badge)
Motto: Disce Pati
Grant:
Lord Lyon
King of Arms, Scotland, June 1963
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1981 |
Andrew A.
Duncanson
Argent a chevron Sable in
chief two sheaves each of three arrows
points upwards Gules banded Sable and in
base a maple leaf of the third.
Crest: A dexter hand
appaumé Or proper charged with an arrow
head point upward Gules. (Crest
Badge)
Motto: Mens and Manus
Grant: Lord Lyon King
of Arms, Scotland, March 2nd 1981.
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1992 |
Robert Hugh Duncan:
Per chevron gules and azure, on a
chevron sable fimbrated Or between two
cinquefoils argent in chief, and a book
expanded argent, binding and fore edges
Or, in base a maltise cross argent.
Crest:
Dexter hand proper holding an antique
crown Or all within two fronds of fern
argent. (Crest
Badge)
Motto:
Tempore beu uti
Grant: Lord Lyon King
of Arms, Scotland, 73/77 New Zealand 22
Feb 1992
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1995 |
Andrew Aitken
Duncan:
Per chevron, in chief
tierced per pale gules, Azure and gules
and in base gules, on a chevron between
a bear’s head couped argent, muzzled
gules, accompanied by two cinquefoils
argent in chief and a hunting horn of
the last viroled and stringed azure in
base, an oak tree eradicated between two
salmon proper.
Crest: lymphad flagged
sable the sail Or charged with a lion
rampant gules and on a canton argent a
dexter hand couped fessways holding a
cross crosslet fitchee in pale gules. (Crest Badge)
Motto:
Fear nane but God.
Grant: Lord Lyon King
of Arms, Scotland, 4th Oct 1995 77/78
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2005 |
Pearl
Rose Duncan (USA):
Per chevron
Gules and Vert, on a chevron Argent
between in chief two plates each
charged with a flower of the Tree of
Life (lignum vitae) Bleu Celeste and
in base a lion rampant of the Third,
three inkwells Sable.
Crest:
None
Motto:
None
Grant: Lord Lyon King
of Arms, Scotland 2006 Vol. 87
Folio 72
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2006 |
John Alexander
Duncan of Sketraw, KCN, FSA Scot:
Arms:
Gules
a chevronel Or in chief two
cinquefoils and in base a dragon’s
head couped holding between its teeth
a sword in bend sinister hilt upward
Argent hilt Or pommel Argent.
Crest: On waves of the sea
Argent a lymphad proper under sail Or
flagged Gules the sail charged with a
clarion Gules. (Crest
Badge)
Motto: Savour the
Moment
Pennon: Upon a Pennon of
120 centimetres long to these Liveries
Or and Gules Arms in the hoist bearing
the motto 'Savour The Moment' in two
lines counterchanged.
Grant:
The
Court of the Lord Lyon, 14th December
2007. Register, volume 88, folio 7..
Conferral: by S. A. R. Don Carlos de
Borbón-Dos Sicilias y de Borbón-Parma,
Duque de Calabria, Conde de Caserta,
Infante de España as a Knight Jure
Sanguinis, Motto Proprio, Sacred
Military Constantinian Order of St
George. 28th November 2006, Book 4,
Folio 56, No. 3002.
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achievement of Arms.
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