In fact this was a two-way movement, with junior members of knightly or armigerous county families taking an interest in towns and trade. |
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Although any member may rise to the rank of Knight or Dame, only armigerous members can automatically become Knights or Dames of Justice. |
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Remember that the first step to discovering whether your family is armigerous is sound genealogical knowledge. |
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In the early days of New England in the seventeenth century there were a good number of armigerous families. |
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The quarters form an indivisible shield to represent him as the sole child of the union of his armigerous parents. |
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Thus 9 of the 14 knights in Group C were armigerous the remainder being described as knights by the ordinance of 1295, and each of the knights in Group D was armigerous. |
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Little is known about his life as a whole, but he was armigerous, evidently accustomed to servants, and sometimes voyaged to the New World accompanied by suits of armour and books. |
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Typically this will be the arms of their husband impaled with their own personal arms or those of their father, if armigerous. |
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Indeed, upon ennoblement, a count or baron not from an armigerous family might actually assume his own, original coat of arms without recourse to any authority. |
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However, heraldry has never been restricted to the noble classes in most countries, and being armigerous does not necessarily demonstrate nobility. |
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Clans or families thought to have had a Chief in the past but not currently recognised by the Lord Lyon are listed at Armigerous clans. |
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