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Further
Private Registration: United States Heraldic
Registry, # 20070204O, 4 February 2007.
The Arms were designed according
to the Armiger’s wishes and in close council with him by The Board for Heraldic
and Genealogical Studies of The Centre for Research of Orthodox Monarchism (CROM-BHGS)
under the guidance of its Managing Director, Mr Nenad M. Jovanovich, Herald of
the Princely Branch of the Serbian Royal House of Karageorgevich.
The design of the shield “Or, an eagle displayed Sable” alludes to the
mixed heritage of the Armiger (Serbian, Romanian and German state symbol of an
eagle) but avoids the use of the double headed eagle as this is reserved for the
use of the State and the Royal Family in Serbian heraldry. It also points to the
Armiger’s Orthodox Faith. The branches that the eagle holds represent the male
(black locust) and female (linden) line united and also illustrates the region
of Banat. On a different level, these charges also signify how the new items
(black locust is originally from America) can be utilized to the benefit of all
(the tree was used extensively in Southern Banat to keep in check the spread of
sand dunes), along with the linden tree, a symbol of Slavs. They also represent
the Serbian fate of being “East to the West and West to the East”, that the
armiger, as a professor of English, also shares. The fleur-de-lis Or alludes to
the Serbian Monarchy and is also a canting part of the arms, since the Serbian
word for that flower is “ljiljan” and Armiger’s mother’s name is Ljiljana. The
bordure Vert represents Banat; Green being the armiger’s favourite colour.
The Crest lymphad stands for the Armiger’s family Patron Saint St. Nicholas and
the flags bear Serbian national colours. The harp on the sail was chosen to
represent art. The harp and lymphad also allude to the armiger being an Irish
(Gaelic) speaker, since the word lymphad comes from “long fhada”, meaning “long
ship”.
The armiger possesses an heraldic badge of: Upon a pomme, between two
fleur-de-lis Or a linden tree eradicated Argent. The badge is of the armiger’s
own design.
The armiger is a third generation native of the region of Banat, in the Serbian
Province of Vojvodina, the first generation to the two family lines to be born
in the town of Pančevo, those lines being the paternal one of the Ristić’s (Ristiches)
of Golemo Selo in the Southern Serbia and the maternal one of the Magdas of the
village of Botoš in Banat. The paternal Serbian lineage, whose members, to the
best of Armiger’s knowledge, were dwellers of the abovementioned place from the
mid-1750s, a tradition which was terminated by the misfortunate events of WWII
that resulted in the armiger’s grandfather moving to the region Banat. The
maternal lineage, which is of mixed Serbian, Vlach (Wallach) and German
extraction, settled in the region of Temišvar (Timisoara in what is today
Romania) after the Great Serbian Migration in the 1690s and moved south to its
present location at the end of 18th century. The branch of the family
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