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His Majesty's High Court of Chivalry is a civil law (as opposed to common law) court in English and Welsh law with jurisdiction over matters of heraldry. The court has been in existence since the fourteenth century; however, it rarely sits. [ 1 ]
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Sismondi alludes to the fictitious Arthurian romances about the imaginary Court of King Arthur when taken as factual presentations of a historical age of chivalry. He continues: He continues: The more closely we look into history, the more clearly shall we perceive that the system of chivalry is an invention almost entirely poetical.
The court considers all cases relating to questions of status, including disputes over social rank and the law of arms, for example complaints on the infringement of the use of another individual's coat of arms. The Court of Chivalry meets on the premises of the College of Arms, however the last time it met was in 1954, the first time in 230 years.
The Court of Chivalry was at one time also known as the "Court of Honour". In British law, the Court of Chivalry was a court held before the Earl Marshal and the Lord High Constable; since the abolition of the office of the Lord High Constable, it has been conducted by the Earl Marshal alone.
Volume 1: File:Edward Coke, The First Part of the Institvtes of the Lawes of England (1st ed, 1628).pdf; Volume 2: File:Edward Coke, The Second Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England (1st ed, 1642).pdf; Volume 3: File:Edward Coke, The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England (1st ed, 1644).pdf
The old coat of arms of the Portuguese town of Castelo Rodrigo, consisting of the coat of arms of Portugal inverted for the town's treachery in the 1383–1385 Crisis. An abatement (or rebatement) is a modification of a coat of arms, representing a less-than honorable augmentation, [1] [2] imposed by an heraldic authority (such as the Court of Chivalry in England) or by royal decree for ...
Scrope v Grosvenor (1389) was an early lawsuit relating to the law of arms.One of the earliest heraldic cases brought in England, the case resulted from two different knights in King Richard II's service, Richard Scrope, 1st Baron Scrope of Bolton, and Sir Robert Grosvenor, discovering they were using the same undifferenced coat of arms, blazoned Azure, a bend Or.