This site is soon to be the best resource for free coats of arms on the internet. There are over 1,200 free coats of arms posted here and this number will be rising weekly. Rietstaps famous armorial general, with parallel text in french and english. This monumental work contains the blazons of the coats of arms of more than,000 european families. Monsieur v rolland, and afterwards his son monsieur h v rolland, completed this monumental work over a period of 23 years, in which 85,000 shields of arms illustrate every one mentioned in rietstap s armorial general. General illustrated armorial, unknown binding january 1, 1953 by j. They designed in black and white respecting heraldic rules the majority of the heraldic descriptions cited in the original book. Illustrations to rietstaps armorial general volumes 16.
France, belgium, switzerland, germany, holland, spain, england, italy. Veb bibliographisches institut leipzig, leipzig 1984. If anyone out there has access to either or all of them, please get in contact with me. Family crest search the best places on the web to search for family crests and coats of arms. Lieutenant general edward grant martin davis of gibraltar, cb, cbe, rm, governor and commanderinchief of gibraltar. Rietstaps armorial general pages from rietstaps armorial general. Johannes baptista rietstap 12 may 182824 december 1891 was a dutch heraldist and genealogist. Every valid coat of arms in europe is contained in this work. Rietstaps armorial general holiday decor, elaborate. It contains the descriptions of the arms of more than 100,000 families, alphabetically arranged and accurately described. In 1861 he published the first edition of the general armorial.
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