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1st Marquis of Iria Flavia

Posted: 05 Nov 2017, 16:25
by Marcus Karlsson
Coat of Arms of Camilo José Cela, 1st Marquis of Iria Flavia. Spanish Author, Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature 1989.

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Picture Heralder, Wikimedia Commons.

Re: 1st Marquis of Iria Flavia

Posted: 10 Nov 2017, 04:00
by Michael F. McCartney
Beautiful arms!

Re: 1st Marquis of Iria Flavia

Posted: 10 Nov 2017, 09:15
by Bruce E Weller
I do not disagree, Michael, but my eye was drawn to the pendant "N" and then to its mirror image.
This I assume to be an artefact of the rendering, not an obscure message?

Re: 1st Marquis of Iria Flavia

Posted: 10 Nov 2017, 12:20
by Martin Goldstraw
Make one image, flip it to make its mirror ... oops forgot about the N!

Re: 1st Marquis of Iria Flavia

Posted: 10 Nov 2017, 14:39
by Mark Henderson
Martin Goldstraw wrote:Make one image, flip it to make its mirror ... oops forgot about the N!


A common mistake in digital heraldry. ;)

Re: 1st Marquis of Iria Flavia

Posted: 12 Nov 2017, 02:25
by Michael F. McCartney
I missed that entirely on my cellphone screen - was focused on the arms themselves and didn't pay adequate attention to the external froo-froo!

Re: 1st Marquis of Iria Flavia

Posted: 12 Nov 2017, 02:28
by Michael F. McCartney
I missed that entirely on my cellphone screen - was focused on the arms themselves and didn't pay adequate attention to the external froo-froo! But I could see it tonight, on the hotel's buasiness center monitor (we're traveling to from a funeral out of town).

Re: 1st Marquis of Iria Flavia

Posted: 13 Nov 2017, 08:04
by Cameron Campbell
Off topic- Why does the Spanish Crown elevate commoners to such a high noble rank? These days, under the British Crown, you're lucky to get a Life Peerage. Is the Spanish marquisate not heritable?

Re: 1st Marquis of Iria Flavia

Posted: 13 Nov 2017, 10:52
by Chris Green
Cameron Campbell wrote:Off topic- Why does the Spanish Crown elevate commoners to such a high noble rank? These days, under the British Crown, you're lucky to get a Life Peerage. Is the Spanish marquisate not heritable?



It is. The current Marquis, Camilo José Arcadio Cela Conde is the son of the Nobel Prize winner.

Re: 1st Marquis of Iria Flavia

Posted: 13 Nov 2017, 13:10
by JMcMillan
But it doesn't give the bearer or his descendants a seat in the Spanish parliament. The inherited seat in the House of Lords was why the UK stopped creating heritable peerages, wasn't it?