The fount of honour (Latin: fons honorum) is a person, who, by virtue of their official position, has the exclusive right of conferring legitimate titles...

Datu is a title which denotes the rulers (variously described in historical accounts as chiefs, sovereign princes, and monarchs) of numerous Indigenous...

fall of the French monarchy (and later Empire) there is not currently a Fons Honorum (power to dispense and control honors) to strictly enforce heraldic law...

under royal patronage. Such an order is bestowed by, as a legitimate fons honorum, a sovereign or the head of a once-sovereign ruling family. These are...

jurisdiction of the College of Arms and Lyon Court. Part of the Monarch's fons honorum—the power to grant arms—has been de facto devolved to Garter King of...

led by the obas, who sit at the apex of the hierarchy and serve as the fons honorum of the entire system. They are joined in the class of royal chiefs by...

Republic in 1946. However, Umberto II did not abdicate his position as fons honorum and it remained under his Grand Mastership as a dynastic order. While...

sovereign rulers arrogated to themselves the exclusive prerogative to act as fons honorum within their realms. For example, in the United Kingdom royal letters...

of the Holy See are conferred by the Pope as temporal sovereign and fons honorum of the Holy See, similar to the orders awarded by other heads of state...

as courtesies and may or may not have been recognised by a reigning fons honorum. However, some traditional leaders and their family members use royal...

continues to be recognised, used and, occasionally, granted by the national fons honorum, the reigning monarch. From the Middle Ages, a Graf usually ruled a territory...

ceased to exist in 1946, King Umberto II did not abdicate his role as fons honorum over the two dynastic orders over which the family has long held sovereignty...

highest marks of distinction that he may bestow in his capacity as the fons honorum in Spain. Conventionally, the Title of Concession creating the dignity...

with the Vatican ruling that Álvaro II and his successors held the fons honorum for the Order of Christ, thus being able to grant the order. Historically...

position of the prince. They are granted by each divisional chief (as a fons honorum) with the aim of seeking sponsors for his community. The title is a recent...

Lady of Mount Carmel and Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem united under the fons honorum of the Holy See until the publication of the Papal Bull De Equestribus...

and other distinctions (see Awards and decorations of Monaco) as the fons honorum of the Principality of Monaco. In 2005, The New York Times reported that...

Wales (decree of 31 May 1898). The sovereign has the right as a legal fons honorum to grant or revoke use of the style of Highness, as with other styles...

as the King of Portugal believed himself to be the only legitimate fons honorum of the Order. Protests regarding this conflict were made to Rome as late...

under the name "Albany".[citation needed] Lafosse claimed to be the Fons Honorum and Grand Protector of The Imperial and Royal Dragon Court and Order...

proclaim successors based on secretive ritual practices, acting as a fons honorum for Rwanda. The chairman of the Royal Council of Abiru is the de facto...

the heir of the last King as the head of the house of Savoy rules in fons honorum. Order of the Golden Fleece, founded by Philip III, Duke of Burgundy...

that he was not defeated in war and thus remained a king, that is a fons honorum, but this issue is controversial, titles granted by a non-reigning king...

Saint Joachim did not owe its existence to a royal or noble house, or "fons honorum". Its founder and first Grand Master, Prince Christian Franz von Saxen-Coburg-Saalfeld...

version of the order was called Great Chain of Badr. The Saudi king, Fons honorum of the orders, confirmed the decree in his Royal decree. The collar is...

original on 2012-02-04. Retrieved 2008-10-12. Evaristo, Carlos. "The Fons Honorum, Prerogatives and Privileges of the Portuguese House of Bragança" (PDF)...

of the Republic in 1946. Umberto II did not abdicate his position as fons honorum however, and the now dynastic order remains under the Grand Mastership...

ICOC argues that a chivalric order must have a fount of honour (Latin: fons honorum) as either its founder or its principal patron in order to be considered...

into the Austrian imperial branch; Ferdinand was allowed to retain his fons honorum vita natural durante, while his children became only imperial princes...

Muedzul Lail Tan Kiram exercised his head-of-house dynastic rights as a fons honorum (font of honour) to institute and establish the Royal and Hashemite Order...