Arms of Nobility
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The status of Nobility and its very existence varied from country to country and with many this is still a head-getting-chopped-off sort of a question, both in terms of support or refute. How exactly is one noble I shall certainly not get into, nor shall I oblige you with a particularly lengthy discussion of “shaky” genealogies of certain families or whether a legislature of a country acknowledges legal existence of nobility. This section of gallery shows some arms that I emblazoned whose possessors claimed with some credibility (the malicious would say “credulity”) to be or to have been nobility (more in “continental” terms), if in name only. I was very happy to accommodate the gentlemen, once enough evidence was presented.