Czech arms and inheritance

 
Michael Swanson
 
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30 June 2006 10:39
 

Is the custom in Czech heraldry that all children inherit the arms of the father without marks of cadency or difference?

 
Joseph McMillan
 
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01 July 2006 11:56
 

Should be—since the Czech Lands were part of the Holy Roman Empire and later under the Habsburg emperors of Austria, I would expect them to follow German customs.  Perhaps others know better.

 
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01 July 2006 15:35
 

Is that "all sons" or "all children?"

 
Zdenek Kucera
 
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09 July 2006 16:12
 

Yes, in the Lands of Crown of Bohemia all members of the family uses same arms without any marks of cadency. Thus all sons inherit same arms as head (and titles too) and unmarried daughters too. Womens after marry can use fathers arms with husband´s and, of course, uses husband´s title. Simply, this is same as in Germany.

 
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09 July 2006 18:42
 

Zdenek Kucera wrote:

Yes, in the Lands of Crown of Bohemia all members of the family uses same arms without any marks of cadency. Thus all sons inherit same arms as head (and titles too) and unmarried daughters too. Womens after marry can use fathers arms with husband´s and, of course, uses husband´s title. Simply, this is same as in Germany.


Thank you for your answer.

 
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25 July 2006 18:23
 

I received this from the Akademie heraldických nauk České republiky.  I thought it was interesting that "aristocratic atributes" were outlawed….


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Dear Sir,

sorry for my late reply, nevertheless - tradition in "Bohemia, Moravia and

Silesia" is the same as in majority of Austro-Hungarian Empire - children

use the same COA as well as father resp. parents.

Nowadays, we as Czech republic, don´t have exact rules about inheritance of

COAs, but it is supposed, that children may use the same COA as parenrts, if

there is no any other wish of parents (everybody can have COA as he wants,

if it is not with "aristocratic atributes" as crowns etc. - it is prohibited

since 1918, when aristocracy was prohibited).

By the way - more info about traditions etc. you can find in old books

re-scanned and offered by opur society - see

http://www.ahn-cr.info/english.htm or completly (but in Czech language) -

http://www.ahn-cr.info/publikace.htm