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Prof.
Ljubodrag Lj. Grujić
(Grujich)
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Registered: The
International Register
of Arms, 3rd April 2007.
Registration No. 0099.
Arms:
Or, an eagle displayed
Sable armed and langued
Gules, charged on the
breast with a
fleur-de-lys Or,
grasping in the dexter
claw a branch of
locust-tree and the
sinister a branch of
linden-tree all Proper,
the whole within a
bordure Vert.
Crest:
A lymphad proper under
sail Argent flying a
pennon Gules and flagged
Azure and Argent the
sail charged with a harp
Vert.
Motto:
'Synthesis' in Ancient
Greek script
Private
Registration:
Serbia, CROM-BHGS
(Centre for Research of
Orthodox Monarchism
Board for Heraldic and
Genealogical Studies),
Armorial Charter
No.008/06, 26 December
2006.
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Further
Private
Registration:
United States Heraldic
Registry, # 20070204O, 4
February 2007.
The
Arms were designed
according to the
Armiger’s wishes and in
close council with him
by The Board for
Heraldic and
Genealogical Studies of
The Centre for Research
of Orthodox Monarchism
(CROM-BHGS) under the
guidance of its Managing
Director, Mr Nenad M.
Jovanovich, Herald of
the Princely Branch of
the Serbian Royal House
of Karageorgevich.
The design of the shield
“Or, an eagle displayed
Sable” alludes to the
mixed heritage of the
Armiger (Serbian,
Romanian and German
state symbol of an
eagle) but avoids the
use of the double headed
eagle as this is
reserved for the use of
the State and the Royal
Family in Serbian
heraldry. It also points
to the Armiger’s
Orthodox Faith. The
branches that the eagle
holds represent the male
(black locust) and
female (linden) line
united and also
illustrates the region
of Banat. On a different
level, these charges
also signify how the new
items (black locust is
originally from America)
can be utilized to the
benefit of all (the tree
was used extensively in
Southern Banat to keep
in check the spread of
sand dunes), along with
the linden tree, a
symbol of Slavs. They
also represent the
Serbian fate of being
“East to the West and
West to the East”, that
the armiger, as a
professor of English,
also shares. The
fleur-de-lis Or alludes
to the Serbian Monarchy
and is also a canting
part of the arms, since
the Serbian word for
that flower is “ljiljan”
and Armiger’s mother’s
name is Ljiljana. The
bordure Vert represents
Banat; Green being the
armiger’s favourite
colour.
The Crest lymphad stands
for the Armiger’s family
Patron Saint St.
Nicholas and the flags
bear Serbian national
colours. The harp on the
sail was chosen to
represent art. The harp
and lymphad also allude
to the armiger being an
Irish (Gaelic) speaker,
since the word lymphad
comes from “long fhada”,
meaning “long ship”.
The armiger possesses an
heraldic badge of: Upon
a pomme, between two
fleur-de-lis Or a linden
tree eradicated Argent.
The badge is of the
armiger’s own design.
The armiger is a third
generation native of the
region of Banat, in the
Serbian Province of
Vojvodina, the first
generation to the two
family lines to be born
in the town of Pančevo,
those lines being the
paternal one of the
Ristić’s (Ristiches) of
Golemo Selo in the
Southern Serbia and the
maternal one of the
Magdas of the village of
Botoš in Banat. The
paternal Serbian
lineage, whose members,
to the best of Armiger’s
knowledge, were dwellers
of the abovementioned
place from the
mid-1750s, a tradition
which was terminated by
the misfortunate events
of WWII that resulted in
the armiger’s
grandfather moving to
the region Banat.
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The
maternal lineage, which
is of mixed Serbian,
Vlach (Wallach) and
German extraction,
settled in the region of
Temišvar (Timisoara in
what is today Romania)
after the Great Serbian
Migration in the 1690s
and moved south to its
present location at the
end of 18th century. The
branch of the
familymoved to the town
of Pančevo in the 1950s,
where the armiger’s
father assumed the
surname of Grujić
(Grujich).
In accordance with the
agreement made with the
abovementioned Herald,
all descendants may use
the same armorial
design, with the right
to difference them by
adding a cadency mark
upon the sail on the
lymphad as they see fit.
By
way of an honourable
augmentation, the
armiger has been awarded
the right to use the
heraldic badge of the
village of Botoš. Viz: A
lion rampant Or winged
of stork’s wings
addorsed and elevated
brandishing a sabre
Proper in his dexter paw
and holding a tulip
flower Or in his
sinister.
This
augmentation is now used
by the armiger, with
authority, in his
standard, the blazon of
which is recorded as:
Standard:
the Arms of Ljubodrag
Grujić in the hoist, the
fly barry of four Or and
Vert charged to the
dexter with the Crest
and to the sinister the
Badge, that being a
pomme, between two
fleur-de-lis Or a linden
tree eradicated Argent
and in between separated
by two bends Or
fimbriated Sable
inscribed with the Motto
in Serbian Cyrillic
letters Постојани и
праведни Vert, the field
Azure in base a barrulet
wavy Argent upon which
standing a lion rampant
Or winged of stork’s
wings addorsed and
elevated and brandishing
a sabre Proper in chief
between two
water-bougets a
fleur-de-lys Or.
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