Hervé Pinoteau, 6th Baron Pinoteau (19 July 1927 – 24 November 2020) was a French

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

, expert in

heraldic Heraldry is a discipline relating to the design, display and study of armorial bearings (known as armory), as well as related disciplines, such as vexillology, together with the study of ceremony, rank and pedigree. Armory, the best-known branc ...

research and royalist

apologist Apologetics (from Greek ) is the religious discipline of defending religious doctrines through systematic argumentation and discourse. Early Christian writers (c. 120–220) who defended their beliefs against critics and recommended their fa ...

. He was the author of more than 900 articles and 22 books primarily on history and heraldry.

Biography

Pinoteau was born in Paris. From 1950 to 1951, he served in the French army as a lieutenant. He served as the private secretary of the late Prince Alphonse, Duke of Anjou, for 26 years. Pinoteau was a member of the

Académie Internationale d'Héraldique An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the g ...

(International Academy of Heraldry) of which he was general secretary from 1964 to 1988. He was president of the Société nationale des Antiquaires de France in 2010. He was recognized as an expert in French

heraldry Heraldry is a discipline relating to the design, display and study of armorial bearings (known as armory), as well as related disciplines, such as vexillology, together with the study of ceremony, Imperial, royal and noble ranks, rank and genealo ...

and

vexillology Vexillology ( ) is the study of the history, symbolism and usage of flags or, by extension, any interest in flags in general.Smith, Whitney. ''Flags Through the Ages and Across the World'' New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975. Print. A person who studi ...

. He was commissioned to create the coat of arms of the

Pays de la Loire Pays de la Loire (; but can also mean 'Lower Loire') is one of the eighteen administrative regions of France, located on the country's Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast. It was created in the 1950s to serve as a zone of influence for its capital an ...

region of France, and to do the final design for the coat of arms of the

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. Pinoteau was a

monarchist Monarchism is the advocacy of the system of monarchy or monarchical rule. A monarchist is an individual who supports this form of government independently of any specific monarch, whereas one who supports a particular monarch is a royalist. C ...

who believed in the restoration of the

House of Bourbon The House of Bourbon (, also ; ) is a dynasty that originated in the Kingdom of France as a branch of the Capetian dynasty, the royal House of France. Bourbon kings first ruled France and Kingdom of Navarre, Navarre in the 16th century. A br ...

to the French throne. He was the founder of the Secretariat-du Prince Alphonse, Duc de Bourbon (1962) and the Institut de la maison de Bourbon (1973). He was considered one of the revitalizers of the Legitimist movement in France.

Awards

* Bailiff Knight Grand Cross of Justice of the

Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George The Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George (; ), also historically referred to as the Imperial Constantinian Order of Saint George and the Order of the Constantinian Angelic Knights of Saint George, is a dynastic order of knighthood ...

(Italian: Sacro Militare Ordine Costantiniano di San Giorgio) * Knight of the

Legion of Honour The National Order of the Legion of Honour ( ), formerly the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour (), is the highest and most prestigious French national order of merit, both military and Civil society, civil. Currently consisting of five cl ...

(French: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur) * Commander of the

Order of Prince Henry the Navigator The Order of Prince Henry () is a Portuguese order of knighthood created on 2 June 1960, to commemorate the quincentenary of the death of the Portuguese ''infante'' Prince Henry the Navigator, one of the main initiators of the Age of Discovery. M ...

(Portuguese: Ordem do Infante Dom Henrique) * Grand officer of the

Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise The Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise () is a Spanish civil order established in 1939, recognising activities in the fields of education, science, culture, higher education and research. The order was created on 23 May 1902 by Royal decree as t ...

(Spanish: Orden de Alfonso X el Sabio) * 1990 - National History Prize of the National Academy of Reims - Paillard Foundation (l’Académie nationale de Reims - Fondation Paillard)

Selected works

Among his many publications are contributions to: * ''

Encyclopædia universalis The ''Encyclopædia Universalis'' is a French-language general encyclopedia published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., a privately held company. The articles of the ''Encyclopædia Universalis'' are aimed at educated adult readers, and writ ...

'' (''Thesaurus Index''), * ''Dictionnaire du Grand siècle'' de François Bluche, * ''Dictionnaire du Second Empire'' de

Jean Tulard Jean Tulard (; born 22 December 1933, Paris) is a French academic and historian. Considered one of the best specialists of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Napoleonic era ( Directory, Consulate and First French Empire), he is nicknamed by his peers ...

, * ''Encyclopédie de la culture française'' d’Éclectis, * ''Dictionnaire de biographie française'', and * ''Dictionnaire mondial des images'' de Laurent Gervereau.

Books

* ''Monarchie et avenir'', Nouvelles Editions Latines, Paris 1960 * ''L'héraldique capétienne'', 1976, revised 2000 * ''L'État de l'Ordre du Saint-Esprit en 1830 et la survivance des ordres du roi'', 1983 * Hervé Pinoteau, Fabien Gandrille, Christian Papet-Vauban, ''Etat présent de la maison de Bourbon : pour servir de suite à l'almanach royal de 1830 et à d'autres publications officielles de la Maison'', Léopard d'or, 1986 * ''Études sur les ordres de chevalerie du Roi de France'', Le léopard d'Or, Paris 1995 * ''Le chaos français et ses signes'', 1998 * Hervé Pinoteau, Jean de Vaulchier, Jacques Amable de Saulieu, Jean de Bodinat, ''Armorial de l'ANF - Association d'entraide de la Noblesse Française - Hervé Pinoteau : Héraldique et noblesse en préface de l'ouvrage'' * ''La symbolique royale française'', 2004 * ''Saint Louis: Son entourage et la symbolique chrétienne'', 2006 * ''Cinq études d'héraldique et de symbolique étatique'', Léopard d'or, 2007

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pinoteau, Herve 1927 births 2020 deaths Writers from Paris French heraldists 20th-century French historians Knights of the Legion of Honour Commanders of the Order of Prince Henry Recipients of the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise French male non-fiction writers