The Royal Aragonese College of Arms
Welcome to the Officers' Area of the Royal Aragonese College of Arms. To return to the Home Page, please click on the Home button at any time or use the Back button of your browser.
Officers:
Perpignan King of Arms and President of the College: Don Thomas Stothers, SGDC, Coll MOC,
Marquis della Quercia, Count of Val Dafena
Paterno King of Arms: H.H.,Don Stephen William, Screech, SGDC, Gr Coll MOC, Prince of Monte
St Angelo
Sicily King of Arms: Don Saverio Ponz de Leon; Coll MOC, of the Counts of Baylen, Baron of
Pezzagrande and Acqua del Bosco
Aragon King of Arms: Vacant
Malta Herald: Vacant
Sardinia Herald: Don Bernard Gowing; MJ MOC; Baron of Torre San Jorge
Catania Herald: Don Andrew Stewart Jamieson, MJ MOC , Baron of Carcassonne
Ayerbe Herald: Don Maurizio Fantato, MJ MOC, Count of San Vito;
Montpellier Herald: Vacant
Catalonia Herald: Father Dom Thomas Regan, OSB, MJ MOC
Palma Herald: Reverend Don Guy Selvester, GCMOC, Secretary-General & Archivist
Gerona Herald Vacant
San Salvador Pursuivant: Don Patrick Walesby MJ MOC. Baron of Sant'Andrea
Correja Pursuivant: Vacant
Dragon Pursuivant: Don Frederik Brodin MOC
Impavidus Pursuivant Vacant
Double Crown Pursuivant: Vacant
Aquila Pursuivant: Don Carmelo Zermo MJ MOC. Conte di Aderno
The Sovereign House
His Royal Highness Don Francesco Paternò Castello e Guttadauro Ayerbe Aragona of the Dukes of Carcaci, Pretender to the Crowns of Aragon, Catalonia, Valencia, Majorca, Sicily, Sardinia; Prince of Catalonia, Count of Cerdagne, Count of Urgel, Count of Rousillon, Lord of Montpellier, Viscount of Carlades, Baron of Ayerbe, Duke of Perpignan, Sovereign of the Royal Order of Saint George and the Double Crown, Grand Master of the Military Order of Saint Agatha of Paternò, Grand Master of the Order of the Royal Balearic Crown, Grand Master of the Royal Order of James I of Aragon, Grand Master of the Order of San Salvador of Aragon, Protector in the Aragonese Province of the Military Order of Our Lady of Monteza, Patron of the Royal Company of Saint Mary of Mercy, * Catania 1964 son of Don Roberto Enrico Francesco Mario and Donna Maria of the Counts of Fattori, = Donna Guiseppa Campesi .
Issue: Don Roberto *1992, Duke of Gerona, Infante of Aragon, *2001, Don Domenico, Duke of Ayerbe, Infante of Aragon.
Father: Don Roberto Enrico Francesco Mario, Prince of Emmanuel * 16.2 1937 son of Francesco Mario and Donna Angela Riboulet = (1) Donna Maria of the Counts of Fattori and =(2) +Donna Bianca Monteforte, Marchesa of Montpellier
Issue: (1). Donna Aurora *1962, Duchess of Palma;
(2). Don Thorbjorn *1976, Duke of Valencia, Infante of Aragon
Arms: Per pale and in dexter per fess; I or four pallets gules and overall a bendlet azure (Paternò); II azure a castle or (Castello); iii azure three bars or and six bezants, three beneath the first bar, two beneath the second and one beneath the third,
Supporters: two lions or.
For additional information on the Sovereign House please click here.
The arms illustrated above are those of the RACA (Argent, the eagle of St. John displayed Sable; on a chief Gules and escutcheon Or) anf the four Kings of Arms. They are Perpignan King of Arms and President of the College (Argent the eagle of St John displayed Sable; on a chief azure two letters 'E' for Emmanuel, respectant between two castles Or.), Paterno King of Arms (Argent the eagle of St. John displayed Sable; on a chief Azure Celeste the castle of Paterno Proper), Sicily King of Arms (Argent the eagle of St. John displayed Sable; on a chief Azure a trinacria between two escutcheons Or), Aragon King of Arms (Argent the eagle of St. John displayed Sable; on a chief Or fimbriated Vert a dragon passant Vert langued Gules).
There are additionally seven Heralds (Malta, Sardinia, Catania, Ayerbe, Montpellier, Catalonia and Palma) and three Pursuivants (San Salvador Correja and Dragon).