Fitzalan Pursuivant of Arms Extraordinary is a current

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. As a

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extraordinary, Fitzalan is a royal officer of arms, but is not a member of the corporation of the

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. As with many other extraordinary offices of arms, Fitzalan Pursuivant obtains its title from one of the

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ies held by the

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; the appointment was first made for the

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in 1837. The badge of office was assigned in 1958 and is derived from a Fitzalan badge of the fifteenth century. It can be blazoned ''An Oak Sprig Vert Acorns Or'', but is also recorded as ''A Sprig of Oak proper''. The first four Fitzalans, beginning with Sir Albert Woods, subsequently became

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. Charles Wilfrid Scott-Giles, the well-known heraldic writer, also served as Fitzalan Pursuivant. The current Fitzalan Pursuivant of Arms Extraordinary is Alastair Andrew Bernard Reibey Bruce of Crionaich, second cousin to the Hon. Adam Bruce, Marchmont Herald of Arms.

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References

Citations Bibliography * ''The College of Arms, Queen Victoria Street : being the sixteenth and final monograph of the London Survey Committee'', Walter H. Godfrey, assisted by Sir

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, with a complete list of the officers of arms, prepared by H. Stanford London, (London, 1963) * ''A History of the College of Arms &c'',

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, (London, 1804)

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{{College of Arms English offices of arms

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