Flemish Heraldic Council

Flemish Heraldic Council

The Flemish Heraldic Council or "Vlaamse Heraldische Raad" advises the Flemish Government on all matters relating to heraldry. It currently operates as the fifth division of the Royal Commission of Monuments and Sites or "Koninklijke Commissie voor Monumenten en Landschappen".

The Council was established on April 11, 1984, as the successor to the Subcommittee for Heraldry or "Subcommissie Heraldiek", established in 1978. Its prime task was to supervise the granting of a coats of arms and a flag to each of the 308 communes in the Flemish Region. Following the reorganization of the Belgian provinces, the council's field of action was extended to provincial arms and flags in 1994. Since 2000 the Council has likewise advised the Flemish Government on grants of arms to Flemish individuals and corporations. In the mean time more than 100 of such grants have received official sanction.

See also

* Heraldry

External links

* [http://www.onroerenderfgoed.be/nl/heraldiek/ The Flemish Heraldic Council ] official site, with online register of all arms granted to private persons and corporations (in Dutch).
* [http://makepeace.ca/vhr/ Order of the Flemish Government] carrying out the decree of 3 February 1998, for establishing the armorial bearings of institutions and private persons (translated from the original Dutch by Jonathan David Makepeace)

References

* Lieve Viaene-Awouters and Ernest Warlop, "Gemeentewapens in België: Vlaanderen en Brussel" 2 vols (Brussels, 2002). Listing all provincial and municipal arms granted upon advise of the Flemish Heraldic Council.


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