I’ve just started work on the text for the Lyndon Johnson article in the presidential arms series. The "American College of Heraldry and Arms," which "granted" Johnson arms in 1968, gave him the motto, Nobilitatis Virtus Non Stemma Character (capitalization as on the certificate).
This seems like odd Latin to me, but what do I know? I wonder if someone could translate it for me? (I would say what the college apparently thought it meant, but would rather not influence an independent translation.)
Thanks.
Nobilitatis virtus non stemma character, is not a fresh motto. Richard Grosvenor, the 1st Earl Grosvenor, bore this motto among others. I would translate the motto as virtue not pedigree should characterise nobility. On a side note, Virtus non Stemma was the motto of the now defunct Harrow County School for Boys.
Well, then, not as odd as I suspected. The ACA&H translated it as "Virtue not lineage is the stamp of nobility," so close enough. Thanks.
Both interpretations of the phrase are interesting. In Italian stemma usually refers to ones coat-of-arms or blazon. This phrase has been around for over six hundred years so it is quite likely that when it was devised, stemma was actually referring to an inherited coat-of-arms (with a lineage or pedigree).
Not necessarily. If stemma was a shorthand way of referring to the insignia of a lineage, then it wouldn’t matter whether one were the first in the line (i.e., the man assuming the arms for the first time) or the 50th to succeed in line of inheritance; it would still be the insignia of the lineage.
Joe—How’s your next article coming along? It’s a great series.
The LBJ article is written, but I haven’t had a chance to redraw the eagles in the shield and to finish the crest.
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