Draft:AFGB
The Commission and Association for the Armigerous Families of Great Britain (AFGB) is the sole British nobility association recognised by The European Commission of the Nobility. It was founded in 1996.[1]
Membership
[edit]AFGB admits members of the peerage and the gentry, using the right to heraldic arms as the main criterion for determining membership in the British nobility. All persons who have been granted arms by the College of Arms or Lord Lyon, as well as their male-line descendants entitled to the arms (or, in Scotland, a differenced version thereof) according to the Law of Arms may be admitted to the organisation.[1] The AFGB utilises the same test of nobility as the Order of Malta, which equates the right to arms and the status of Gentleman confirmed by it with untitled nobility in its British association.[2]
Current officers
[edit]- Coordinator of AFGB: Sir Henry Paston-Bedingfield, Bt, former Norroy and Ulster King of Arms
- Delegate to CILANE: Michael Sayer
- Vice-Delegates to CILANE: Lord Abinger and Sir Richard Rowley, Bt
- Youth Organiser for CILANE: Viscount Jocelyn
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Grande-Bretagne – CILANE". Retrieved 2025-02-09.
- ^ "Nobility and Gentry: The Conflict Between British and Continental Concepts of Nobility and the Order of Malta". Nobility and Gentry. 2021-09-28. Retrieved 2025-02-09.