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Bermanian Heraldry

While formal coats-of-arms have been known in Bermania since the 1200s (we do read the newspapers you know), heraldry did not take hold of the popular fancy until the 19th century.  Previous to this, only the King and other nobles charged with representing the King to foreign heads of state found it necessary to display shields of arms.  From the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment the primary form of symbolic identification among the nobility consisted of traditional plywood lawn ornaments.
As in the rest of Europe, the King is considered the font of all honors in Bermania.   It is indeed considered a very great honor to be granted a coat of arms in Bermania, and this usually only accompanies an elevation to the peerage.  The King is traditionally  head of the Collage of Heralds, ex officio.
The many foreign sovereigns and nobles holding Bermanian grants of arms, and often Bermanian citizenship, derives not from His Majesty's title as King of Bermania, but from his status as Terra Orbis Nostris Imperator acquired in 1544.


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Alanus I, King of Bermania

 

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David I, Grand Duke of New Jersey		 berwebarmsang2.gif (6178 bytes)

Angela, Queen of the Two Sicilies

Ittt, Queen of Itt
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Patricia, Countess of Polonia		 berwebarmswarsaw3.gif (7060 bytes)
Vitold, Grand Duke of Warsaw
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Procopius II, Queen of Egypt
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William, King of Navarre		 berwebarmsukr2.gif (7805 bytes)
Marko, Grand Duke of Kiev
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Salard I, King of Zambia
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David I, King of Antarctica		 berwebarmscracow4.gif (18197 bytes)
David, Bishop of Cracow
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Caroline, Princess of Russia
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Linda, Countess of Ulster		 berwebarmsvarker.gif (4635 bytes)
Helen, Princess of Wales
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David, Khan of the Crimea
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Sir Anthony Robinson Gee of the Loud Smile, KKB		 berwebarmsscott2.gif (14951 bytes)
Robert, Count of Litchfield
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Michelle, Countess of Westchester

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Dame Catherine of the Together Act, Prime Minister, KKB
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Susan, Marquise of Bratislava
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Samuel, Duke of Norfolk, Count of Calais and Tripoli
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Sir Joseph of the Impatient Spirit, KNW, Minister of Darkness, Privy Councillor for War

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Dianna, Empress of Persia, Queen of Armenia and Mechinka, Apostolic Queen of Hungary
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Christine, Princess of Mechinka

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Frederick, King of the Belgians, Arch-Moneyer of Bermania, Grand Master of the Knights of Christmas
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Stephen, Emperor of Mars*
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Neil, Emperor of Venus*

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Theodore, Graf von Talladega
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Sir Mark of the Joyful Countenance, KNW
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Louise Perigryne I, Countess of Sienna		 berwebarmspaul2.gif (18751 bytes)
Paul I, Duke of North California, Protector of the Bay		 berwebarmsbarb2.gif (25712 bytes)
Barbara, Queen of Bermania, Countess of Ulster-in-America
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Tracy, Lady-in-Waiting of Ulster-in-America
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Donald and Alexa, Lord and Lady of Man		 berwebarmsgreenfield2.gif (41287 bytes)

Robert, Baron of Greenfield
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Lord Charles Furnace of the Treehouse		 berwebarmsforza2.gif (12036 bytes)
Lady Catherine Flameweaver of the Treehouse
Phyllis, Baroness of Greenfield

Sir Perry of the Bombastic Utterance, Knight of the New World
Craig of the Island Long and the Bear White, Lord of Four Pines
Lady Ashni Windrider, Chaoarch of Allegory

Sarah Nameseeker, Baroness of Northampton, K.K.B.
Louis II, King-emeritus of Bermania
Janet, Queen Mother of Bermania

Lord High Admiral Charles Emerson Chapman
Lord Brian Gil-O-Man, of the Foxes Most Black, All Named Jack
Patrick, Baron of Brushwood

Robert, Viscount of Ventadour, KKB
Camden, Duchess of New Hampshire
Barry, Prince Consort of Itt

Diann, Baroness of Middlefield
John Kemp III, Grand Minister of the Cotton Republic
Paul, Emperor of Austria,
Baron of Fairfield

Terrence, Archduke of Shamrock
Eric, Grand Count of New Amsterdam
Hon. Darrin Suprina,
Royal Foodtaster

Hon. Jamie Suprina,
Royal Foodtaster


Meaghan Faun Suprina,
Esquire
Sir. Robert of the Strong Tower,
Knight-errant

Bloodsong, Queen of Mercia

Aemelia,
Viscountess of Southfork
Kevin,
Lord of the Refuge
of St. Giles

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