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NOBLE
TITLES, ARBITRATION SENTENCES, ADOPTIONS, SURVEYS, INTERNATIONAL
NOBILITY REGISTER, REGISTRATION WITH THE ITALIAN HERALDIC COUNCIL |
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NOBLE TITLES, BY CONCESSION
OR REFUTE, OFFERING LEGAL ARBITRATION, WHICH IS VALID AS A SENTENCE
AND PUBLICATION OF THE DECREE IN THE OFFICIAL REGIONAL GAZETTE OF
THE REPUBLIC OF ITALY |
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013 A – CONCESSION
OR REFUTE OF A NOBLE TITLE, PREDICATE AND COAT OF ARMS
The concession of a noble title is not the prerogative of the State,
rather they are granted in virtue of the merits recognised the person
by power, prerogative, the crown and the discretion of the Pretender
Prince to the throne who holds the Fons and Jus Honorum. This concept
has always been followed by Reigning Dynasties who lost their throne
further to final occupation of the land and, therefore, without
debellatio, and therefore the figure of the Pretender prince arose.
If a noble title nowadays was well earned and worn with honour,
it has the same value as those titles of the past, as anything is
effective in the moment it is acquired; i.e. as the noble title
is emanated by Sovereign prerogative (rex nobilem tantum facere
potest), we have an “object” Sovereign faced with a
“subject”; this means the noble title is not of antique
or native origin, rather dative. Noble titles that may be conceded
ex novo or claimed are: Prince, Duke, Marquis, Count, Viscount,
Baron, Nobleman, Patrician, Byzantine Patrician, Sir, Hereditary
Knight; these titles can be transmitted to their children or, compatibly
with the entitled person’s wishes, to other members or otherwise
of the Dynasty or, if preferred, to the male or female agnation.
The same goes with Letters Patent or equivalent titles of renewal,
recognition, amnesty and consent, including the claim to Arms, qualifications
and treatment or lucubration with ex novo outlining of the coat
of arms. According to the Constitution (see the XIV transitory and
final regulation), the State is not interested whether someone has
an antique or new noble title, and does not prohibit its exhibition
and use in public and private relationships, nor is the abuse of
noble titles considered a crime. This note was necessary to avoid
damaging the historic dignity once held by the family – where
the title is a demographic reminder – or, in the case of the
concession of ex novo noble titles, the historic biography of the
person. Likewise a noble title may be transmitted by refute, before
a Notary, which means transferring to others, outside the direct
succession line, personal, native, granted, recognised, renewed
noble titles or titles that a person has inherited; approval is
required from all the intermediate heirs for refute to be allowed,
i.e. those who would have earned the title through the deed of concession.
The amount of the historic, nobiliary, heraldic, knightly research,
including the studies and researches for coats of arms, predicates,
the pro veritate opinion, dissertations and the notary authentication
of the Letters Patent and/or amnesty of antique or ex novo titles,
emanated by the Sovereign body – subject to international
public law, will be discussed in a private meeting with the maximum
guarantee of secrecy:
NOBLE TITLES, QUALIFICATIONS, COATS OF ARMS
AND PREDICATES THAT MAY BE TRANSFERRED:
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A Ranks in knightly orders |
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A Noble arms (just the concession of coat
of arms) |
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A Hereditary Knight with the right of crown |
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A Noble Title of Noble with predicate, coat
of arms and qualifications of Don and Donna |
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A Noble Title of Patrician and Byzantine
Patrician with predicate, coat of arms and qualifications of
Don and Donna |
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A Noble title of Sir with predicate, coat
of arms and qualifications of Don and Donna |
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A Noble title of Baron with predicate, coat
of arms and qualifications of Don and Donna |
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A Noble title of Viscount with predicate,
coat of arms and qualifications of Don and Donna |
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A Noble title of Count with predicate, coat
of arms and qualifications of Don and Donna |
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A Noble title of Marquis with predicate,
coat of arms and qualifications of Don and Donna |
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A Noble title of Duke with predicate, coat
of arms and qualifications of Don and Donna |
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A Noble title of Prince with predicate, coat
of arms and qualifications of Don and Donna |
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013 B – ARBITRATION
SENTENCE OF LEGAL, HISTORIC, HERALDIC, NOBILIARY AND KNIGHTLY INVESTIGATION,
AND APPROVAL DECREE BY THE ORDINARY COURT
We feel the Magistracy is the only authority which, being the authority
to ascertain and protect rights, also protects the most jealously
guarded and delicate of a person’s rights, i.e. their name,
has the task and power to ascertain the legal existence of a special
status in a given family and to declare the right to noble titles,
predicates, qualifications and coats of arms annexed to it. Thus motivated,
after considerable fatigue expert lawyers have reached an elaborate
legal tool, which aims at certifying the current legitimacy to a right
claimed by the applicant. Therefore, ascertaining that the noble title,
predicate, coat of arms and qualifications are due to the right person,
by pronouncing an arbitration sentence, according to current arbitration
legislation and articles 806 and following of the Italian Civil Procedure
Code, between the holder of the noble title that investigation is
requested for and the Supreme Institute of Noble Law. The sentence
by the Civil Cassation Court, United sections on 20/05/1965, n. 987,
states “the preliminary investigation into the rights to a noble
title can be made for various ends: to include the predicate in the
surname, for the right to belong to certain associations, to benefit
from certain advantages, such as admission to colleges or acquiring
study grants…” The Supreme College has observed, including
in reference to the sentence by the Civil Cassation Court n. 2087/1961,
that “the interlocutory investigations and relative affirmation
of the existence of a noble title … must also be considered
as implicitly allowed by law and cannot damage the principle of social
parity of the citizens, as proclaimed by Art. 3 of the Italian Constitution”.
The Arbitration, through a provision issued by the Magistrate requested
in the form of a Law, can have the force of a sentence (thus the Constitutional
Court, 12 February 1963, n. 2) between the parties, heirs or having
legitimate right (Civil Cassation Court, Section III, 29 May 1980,
n. 3552) and effective as something judged if it is not refuted under
law, Civil Cassation, Section I, 7 February 1963, n. 194. The President
of an ordinary court in the Republic of Italy, once the conformity
of the arbitration sentence to the legal dispositions has been ascertained,
declares it executive within the republic by Decree, by filing it
with the Court Registry office and subsequent publication of the Decree
in the Official Regional Gazette of the Republic of Italy.
This milestone is an incontestable truth, granting justice to nobility
but, above all, to those who claim a heritage of honour and a wealth
of virtue, legal activities that are expressed by worthy lawyers and
other professionals in the field.
For the legal, notary and arbitration consultation and services, including
all the due registrations and heraldic-nobiliary and genealogical
memories, excluding the pro veritate opinions, with assistance through
to the presentation, declaration and execution by the International
Arbitration court – Permanent Body with the European Arbitration
Justice Court in Ragusa, formed of arbitration magistrates, 1st level
judges, checking the registration of an approval decree of the sentence
issued by the President of an Ordinary Court in the Republic of Italy,
and registered with the Income Tax office to enable the sentence to
be valid, including the costs for publication in the Regional Official
Gazette, with further possibility of making the sentence executive
in the more than 100 states that signed the New York Convention of
10.06.1958, which was made executive in Italy by Law no. 62 of 19
January 1968, acclaiming, where successful, the noble status of the
person who has right, legitimising the right to the noble title, predicate,
coat of arms and qualifications if they exist, said deed being valid
as a legal-historic-nobiliary investigation sentence before the Italian
Magistracy of Noble and Knightly Titles – or the Grand Master
of a Knightly Order and the position as subject to international public
law, pursuant to law no. 178 of 3 March 1951 – and with the
annexed predicates and other rights, coat of arms and qualifications,
granted by a sovereign or a pretender prince to the throne and legally
ascertained holder of fons honorum,
- - Time required for the arbitration sentence 180 days
- € 30.000,00 for noble titles
- € 70.000,00 for knightly orders
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NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL
ADOPTION
The Italian Heraldic Council can propose adoption by noble Italian
families, with civil effect, or, further to an agreement with an important
German law office, the paperwork regarding international adoption
with civil effect by important European noble families, governed jointly
by German law (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch BGB, §§ 1767
- 1772) and the relative international convention (concluded on 29
May 1993). The adoption is valid in all the states that signed this
convention (including Italy; the site http://hcch.e-vision.nl/index_en.php?act=states.listing,
gives a list of the signing states), which means the surname of the
adopting family may be used including the noble title in the surname
in fact, after the Weimar Constitution, the title has become an integral
part of the surname in Germany. The list of the noble adopting families
(more than eighty) is confidential: Freiherr means baron; Graf count,
Prinz prince, &c.), however we are authorised to mention a few
(Graf Bernadotte af Wisborg, Swedish, related to the King of Sweden;
Graf von Hardenberg; Graf von Thun und Hohenstein; Freiherr Treusch
von Buttlar-Brandenfels; Prinz von Schoenburg-Waldenburg ). For example,
if someone was adopted by Count Bernadotte af Wisborg, his new surname
in the Italian population registers and on his identity card would
be Mario Graf Bernadotte af Wisborg Rossi.
- Costs and times to be fixed |
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EXTRAJUDICIAL SWORN EXAMINATIONS,
RATIFYINGS, ADMISSIONS OF NOBLE TITLES, RENEWALS, CONCESSIONS, QUALIFICATIONS
AND TREATMENTS FOR BOURGEOIS AND NOBLE COATS OF ARMS, NOBLE PREDICATES,
REFUTES, NOBILIARY AND FAMILIAR AGGREGATIONS, ANY KIND OF CLAIM, ALSO
WITH THE HELP OF KNIGHTLY ORDERS AND SOVEREIGN FAMILIES ON THE THRONE
OR PRETENDERS TO THE THRONE, PRO VERITATE OPINIONS
They are studied by a college of experts who give their technical-heraldic,
cannon, legal-nobiliary or knightly opinion, drafting a motivated
report to establish the truth or otherwise about the subject proposed
by the customer. These reports are not just consultation, but also
help to learn about the social, technical, legal, historic-heraldic,
genealogical and etymological studies, with special interest in protecting
the historic-nobiliary, bourgeois and knightly values, both at home
and abroad. We give special attention to: Heraldics, Archiving systems,
Axiography, Chronology, Diplomacy, Epigraphy, Erinnofilia, Etymology,
Numismatics, Iconography, Iconology, Medallistics, Onomatology, Palaeography,
Patrology, Sphragistics, Symbology, history of clothing, traditions
and customs, Histography and other subjects and sciences.
- Costs and times to be fixed |
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ENROLMENT WITH THE ITALIAN
HERALDIC COUNCIL – MARQUIS VITTORIO SPRETI INSTITUTE ®
Any person or Board may enter our Association, on condition they share
our principles, accept the Articles of Association and are welcomed
by the Senatus Academicus. To become a member, applicants have to
present their written application to the Senatus Academicus, accompanied
by : a) birth certificate; b) marriage certificate (if married); c)
residence certificate; d) qualifications; e) Extract certificate of
the criminal records office; f) curriculum vitae, specifying any noble
titles, knightly ranks or merits, dynastic or papal received by the
person, his parents or ancestors. The status of member is lost by:
a) death; b) resignation; c) cancellation and expulsion, due to serious
violation of the Articles of Associations and Rules. Any member may
resign from the Association in which case it becomes effective when
it is accepted by the Senatus Academicus, which may, however, hold
it in abeyance until such time as any outstanding amounts owed by
the person to the Association have been paid, returning the funds
and property of the Association and waiving all the rights to use
the Italian Heraldic Council and the relative symbols and coats of
arms. When the applicant is accepted, a certificate will be issued
testifying that he is an effective member of the Institute. Investigation
requires 60 working days. |
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016 A EFFECTIVE LISTENER
MEMBER
Any member who takes active part in the Italian Heraldic Council
or who, after admission, is called on to be part of the Heraldic Tribune,
an internal board of the Italian Heraldic Council, will have the right
to a consulting vote.
- application fee: € 300.00 – Annual renewal: € 150.00
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016 B CORRESPONDING MEMBER
A person chosen among those people who study historic, heraldic,
nobiliary, matters, among genealogists, palaeographers and lovers
of similar sciences.
- application fee, € 200.00 – Annual renewal: € 100.00
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016 C SUPPORTER MEMBER
People who support the Association and its purposes with inheritances,
donations and assignments; they can also vote.
- Free annual donation |
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INTERNATIONAL REGISTER OF
NOBILITY AND KNIGHTS (COURTESY PASSPORT)
An enrolment and membership inventory, which gives all the academic,
honorific, noble, knightly and other titles due to the person. The
register reports the personal dignity, which, unfortunately, our rhetoric
politics impoverishes, disqualifying our dignity putting our merits
and values at the lowest level, forgetting the glorious and sacred
memories. It seals the ancient and new noble distinctions and knightly
titles, which, in the majority of cases, are part of a people’s
history. It represents a private property card that cannot be denied
and which cannot be repealed or disowned by any change in regime.
The Heraldic Tribunal, a promulgation of the Italian Heraldic Council,
acts as intermediary to integrate the titles and predicates with suitable
and private measures, recognising their moral dignity and high social
importance. The certificate testifying enrolment with the register
is granted after careful examination and a resolution. It measures
cm. 10 x 15. It is printed in four languages. There is space below
the photo for authentication by a notary. The Courtesy Passport is
auxiliary to the official documents granted by the State. It is a
precious document issued by a Private Board and of public utility,
without any legal value. It allows the holder to be received and recognised
on the grounds of his social status. Bound in red leather, with gold
hot printed symbols. Forecast delivery in 60 working days.
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- Dossier examination, € 80.00 |
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- Enrolment with the International Nobility
and Knightly Register and issue of the Certificate on parchment,
€ 150.00 |
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- International Courtesy Passport, €
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- Annual renewal, € 100.00 |
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