Sep-05 Issue - The Heraldry Society

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Muñoz arms as shown in figure 2 , while the
Duke of Riansares, Marquess of San Agustín
and Viscount of Rostrollano impale them with
the arms used by Fernando Muñoz as Duke of
Riansares, as shown in figure 3.
In addition, the undifferenced Bourbon-Anjou
arms have been used as the arms of the
Dukes of Seville, Ansola, Dúrcal, Marchena,
Hernani, and Santa Elena; all of these titles
were granted to males of the Spanish line of
the Bourbons between 1823 and 1917. The
Hernani title has reverted to the crown but the
remaining Dukes, though the titles are mostly
in other families through female succession,
use identical undifferenced Bourbon-Anjou
arms with ducal coronets and mantles.
Another title, that of Duke of Cádiz, was first
granted to a male Bourbon dynast in 1822. In a
2002 article Spain's Chronicler of Arms,
Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent, argued that as
the sole heir to this title Luís Alfonso de
Borbón, who is also now the senior
representative of the Bourbon dynasty by male
primogeniture, should use the familiar Borbón-
Anjou arms with an escutcheon of Bourbon
proper. Cadenas illustrated this as shown in
figure 4.
Regardless of their 're-granting' by Henri
d'Orléans it seems likely that the Bourbon-
Anjou blazon will continue to feature
prominently on the arms of armigerous
descendants of Spanish Bourbon monarchs.
Descendants of the King's sister the Infanta
Pilar and her husband, Luís Gómez-Acebo,
Viscount of La Torre, might quarter his arms
with hers. And little Felipe Juan Froilán de
Marichalar y Borbón, son of the Infanta Elena
and eldest grandson of King Juan Carlos, may
someday also pass on the Bourbon-Anjou
arms as a heraldic inheritance, quartering the
familiar French arms with his father Don
Jaime's ancient arms of Marichalar of Navarre,
Or, an oak tree proper on a mount vert, a wolf
passant sable as shown in figure 5.
Matthew Hovius
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