As in Italy doesn’t exist an heraldry office for privates, the Studio Araldico Pasquini intend to create a private register where will be registered all coat of arms of private people.
We have called it Italian Armorial Register as we wish one day it will become the official register for private coat of arms, promoting heraldry, who use it, so to set up a rich, powerful and useful database of people having a coat of arms: nobiliar and historical families, clergymen, knights or people appointed by a chivalryc order or honour and other people, included who prefer to use a goliardic coat of arms.
The standards and the rules to register a coat of arms, a badge or a crest are quite serious and well-known to anybody since the beginning.
We believe that if a private intend to register a coat of arms he has to provide all personal informations to make us sure about his identity, undertaking the responsability about all he state or provide. So not only he has to provide documents to proof his identity, but also what is needed to proof his coat of arms is nobiliar, chivalryc, historic, or ecclesiastic. Who intend to adopt a new coat of arms (ex novo) has to subscribe a self-certification. Goliardic coat of arms will be accepted only if shown that they are used since one year and with its own nickname.
After we register the coat of arms that the applicant will submit, we will issue a registration certificate and abstract where will be written all the details of the registration.
For now the register will be published only online, but as soon as it will have enough coat of arms, it will be printed in hard copy with all details of the applicants – including the documents they have provided – and it will be both sold on our site and donated to one or more italian state archives.
For who intend to adopt a new coat of arms we also care to create a personal coat of arms according his/her requests, with a professional heraldry software and in respect of heraldry rules, but always with a spirit of innovation as we would like to make heraldry alive and not only an historical matter.
