Congress Proceedings

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The Proceedings are published as Coat of Arms supplemental volume 3. A small stock will be available for purchase from the Heraldry Society shop from December 2023 at a cost of £35 plus postage.

 

REFORMATION, REVOLUTION, RESTORATION.

Session 1. Scholarly genealogy in the 20th century.

Dr Janet Few (England): The Family History Revolution.

Dr Nathaniel Lane Taylor, Ph.D., F.A.S.G. (U.S.A.) The Scholarly Genealogical Revolution in the United States, 1922–1964.

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Session 2.  Restoration of orders of knighthood and a Revolutionary Heraldic Database.

Dr Martin Sunnqvist, LL.D., A.I.H. (Sweden): The Swedish Orders of Knighthood: alleged restoration, almost revolutionary reformation, and restoration again.

Prof. Dr. Torsten Hiltmann, a.i.h. and Philipp Schneider, M.A. (Germany): The history of heraldry revisited. Computer-assisted analysis of the development of the composition of coats of arms in the Middle Ages and Early modern times.

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Session 3. The Protestant Reformation and its impact of Germany and the New World.

Dirk Weissleder, A.I.G. (Germany): From Luther to the peaceful revolution: Families and individuals between 1517 and 1989 in Central Germany. In English, with slides in French.

James R. Terzian, F.S.A. Scot., F.H.F, and Virginia Morgan (U.S.A.); The Miles Morgan Family:  A Case Study in Utilizing Genetic Genealogy to Validate Primary and Secondary Documentation for Scholarly Research.

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Session 4.  Scotland: The Lyon Office.

Dr Joseph J. Morrow, C.B.E., Q.C., LL.D., Ph.D., D.LThe Rt Hon  the Lord Lyon King of Arms (Scotland); Scots Heraldry and the Scottish Legal System – a partnership of more than 400 years.

Elizabeth Roads, L.V.O., F.S.A., F.S.A.Scot., A.I.H. (Scotland): The history of the Baronets of Nova Scotia and the Knights of Thistle through heraldry.

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Session 5.  New understandings of rolls of arms and analogous sources part 1.

Dr Steen Clemmensen  dr.phil., A.I.H., F.S.A. (Denmark) Medieval England in times of revolution – reflections in armorials. Not Given.

John Edenzor Titterton, M.A., F.S.A., F.H.S. (England): The Adlington Roll, a window into the English Peerage during the Reformation.

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Session 6. Consequences of the English Reformation and of the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660.

Susan T. Moore, M.A., F.S.A (England): The English Chancery court for land disputes following political upheaval.

Dr David Alan Wright, M.A., Ph.D., F.S.A., F.S.G., F.H.G. (England); Parish Registers 1538-1660: Reformation, Revolution, Restoration.

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Session 7.  Heraldry of national arms 1.

Dr Michael Göbl, A.I.H. (Austria): Das habsburgisch-österreichische Wappen als Herausforderung zwischen Dynastie, Anspruch, Föderalismus und Zentralismus von 1740 bis zum Ende der Monarchie

The Habsburg-Austrian coat of arms as a challenge between dynasty, pretensions, federalism and centralism from 1740 to the end of the monarchy.

Dr Manuel Pardo de Vera y Díaz, LL.D., A.I.G. (Spain): El escudo de España- the coat of arms of Spain. The creation and evolution of the coat of arms of Spain.

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Session 8.  Heraldry of national arms 2.

Dr Stoyan Antonov, Ph.D., a.i.h.  (Bulgaria): Crown and Restoration: A Projection of the Past in the Design of the Bulgarian Heraldic Crown.

Dr. Agnė Railaitė-Bardė, A.I.H. (Lithuania); The Greater Coat of Arms of Lithuania: To Be, or Not to Be?

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Session 9.  Reformist Themes.

Matthew Hovious (Spain); Legislating Damnatio Memoriae in Spain’s Twentieth-Century Peerage.

Gonzalo Borda (Peru); The Reform of an Inca social genealogy. Not Given.

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Session 10.  Restoration of heraldic authority.

Richard d’Apice A.M., A.I.H. (Australia): Restoration of heraldic authority in Malta and a comparison with the current situation in Australia.

David B. Appleton, B.S., a.i.h. (U.S.A.): A brief history of heralds and heraldic organizations in the United States of America following independence.

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Session 11.  The DNA Revolution part 1.

Prof Dr Toomas Kivisild, Ph.D. (Belgium): Genetic connectedness between modern and ancient genomes.

Laura Ann House, M.Sc. (England); DNA Testing: The Genealogical Revolution.

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Session 12.  Development of the Office of Arms in England.

Dr Adrian Peter Ailes, M.A., D.Phil., F.S.A., F.R.Hist.S., F.H.S., A.I.H. (England): A Quiet Revolution: New light on the first chapter of English heralds, 1421.

Lectures by Academic Bursary Winners part 1.

Agnieszka Żurek, M.A. (Poland): Restoration of Form, Reform of Matter: Heraldry in Late Prose Romances of William Morris.

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Session 13.

Lectures by Academic Bursary Winners part 2.

Drăgan-George Basarabă (Romania): Religious Tolerance Reflected in the Grants of Arms Issued by the Princes of Transylvania (1541-1765).

Nathaniel Nagar, M.A. (Israel): Heralds and Antiquaries as Keepers of the Social Order in Early Modern England.

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Session 14.  The DNA Revolution, part 2.

Prof Mark Watson-Gandy (England): Genetic Genealogy: from Scottish Baronets to Serial Killers.

Medieval Genealogy.

David E. Rencher, A.G., C.G., F.U.G.A., F.I.G.R.S. (U.S.A.): Using the Resources of FamilySearch for Medieval Genealogy and Heraldry Research.

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Session 15.  Heraldry of national arms, part 3.

Dr Henrik Klackenberg Ph.D., A.I.H. (Sweden): King Gustav I of the Vasa dynasty and the symbols of royal power.

Bruce Patterson  B.A., B.Ed., F.R.H.S.C., a.i.h. (Canada): A Bourbon Restoration in the Arms of Canada.

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Session 16.  Impact of Reform on territorial arms. Chair: Dr Adrian Ailes, A.I.H.

Dr. Gerard Marí Brull, Ph.D (Spain): Revolutions, Restorations and Heraldic Policy during the Reign of Ferdinand VII (1808-1833).

The science of sigillography and new interpretations of early heraldry.

Peter G.R. Howarth, B.Ed. (England): Looking at the start of heraldry: should we restore an old sigillographic approach?

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Session 17.  Revolutionary systems for Genealogy.

Simon Fowler (England): The Card Index: a revolution in record keeping.

Prof. Dr-Ing  Dominikus Heckmann Ph.D. (Germany): A new genealogical ordering system to denote all kind of Kinship and Affinity relations.

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Session 18. New understandings of rolls of arms and analogous documents, part 2.

Klaas Padberg Evenboer (Netherlands): Development of style in the heraldic codex of Hendrik van Heessel, King of Arms of the Ruwieren.

Hannah Iterbeke M.A. & Claire Toussat M.A. (Belgium); Searching for Unity: Revisiting the Coats of Arms of the 1491 Chapter of the Golden Fleece held in Mechelen.

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Session 19.   Protest and migration.

Dr Nick Barratt, Ph.D. (England): A march through time: the genealogy of protest and reform.

John Stuart Titford M.A., MèsL, F.S.A., F.S.G., F.H.G. (England); Migrants on the move: “bounce-backers”.

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Session 20.  Counter Reformation and Counter Revolution.

Dr Tamás Körmendi, M.A., Ph.D., dr. habil., A.I.H. (Hungary); Symbols Related to Catholic Counter-Reformation in the Heraldry of the Kingdom of Hungary in the 17th–18th Centuries. Not Given.

Dr Nathaniel Lane Taylor, Ph.D., F.A.S.G. (U.S.A.): An Heraldic American Counter-Revolution: Honorary Grants of Arms to Americans by British Heraldic Authorities, 1918–1960.

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Session 21.  The Genealogy of Revolutions.

Dr Bruce Durie, B.Sc, Ph.D., A.I.G. (Scotland); The genealogy of the American Declaration of Independence of 1776, and why it has no relationship with the Arbroath Letter of 1320.

The impact of the Protestant Reformation on Heraldry, part 1.

Prof. Dr. Luc Duerloo A.I.H. (Belgium) :When the Saints went marching in: Representations of Saints in the Municipal Heraldry of the Low Countries.

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Session 22.  Revolutionary era heraldry, part 1.

Dr Andrew Gray, Ph.D., F.H.S., a.i.h. (England); Garters at War: The exiled Sir Edward Walker and the renegade Sir Edward Bysshe, their work and its fate under the restored King Charles II.

Prof Dr Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard, Ph.D., F.S.A. F.R.Hist.S., A.I.H, A.I.G. (Denmark). Noble and burgher arms in revolutionary times: Examples of political profiles in 18th-20th century Denmark.

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Session 23. The impact of the Protestant Reformation on Heraldry, part 2.

John Malden, M.Phil., F.H.S., F.H.S.S. (Scotland): Reformation ? – what Reformation ? Religious symbolism in Scottish Heraldry.

Dr. Steven Thiry, Ph.D., A.I.H.  (Belgium): Heraldic Revenge and Reward in the Dutch Revolt.

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Session 24.  Revolutionary era heraldry, part 2.

O. Joseph McMillan, a.i.h. (U.S.A.): Early American State Heraldry:  Sources, Processes, and Symbolism.

Cédric Pauwels (Belgium) : Héraldique royale en période de révolutions. Sens de l’adaptation des membres de la Famille Royale de Belgique.  Royal heraldry in times of revolutions. Adaptations by members of the Royal Family of Belgium.

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Supplemental Lectures replacing missing speakers :

Shannon Combs-Bennett, B.S., M.Sc, (U.S.A.): Birth of a new Aristocracy: The controversial birth of lineage societies in the United States.

Henric Åsklund, Ph.D (Sweden): The Founding of the Scandinavian Roll of Arms in 1963 and of the Swedish Register of Arms in 2007: Comparing two Revolutions in the Publication of Burgher Arms in Sweden.

Alex Maxwell Findlater, A.I.H. (Scotland):The Earldom of Carrick.

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Poster Presentation

Steven Ashley, FHS, FSA, aih  (England): Armorial graffiti in Norwich Castle keep.

 

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