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Guy Sainty has been involved in the world of chivalry and heraldry for many years. He has served as leader of the International Patrons of the Arts of the Vatican Museums{{Fact|date=June 2007}}, and as one of three consultants to the Committee on the Orders of Saint John of the [[Sovereign Military Order of Malta]] and the [[Alliance of Orders of Saint John]].{{Fact|date=June 2007}} He is a member of the [[Royal Academy of Heraldry and Genealogy of Madrid]]{{Fact|date=June 2007}} and has served as a County Staff Officer (Sussex) in the St John Ambulance. Sainty was later made an officer, then an Associated Commander Brother of the [[Venerable Order of Saint John]] on 16 June 1989.<ref name="Gazette 1989">{{LondonGazette|issue=51767|startpage=7104|date=16 June 1989|accessdate=2007-11-29}}</ref><!-- Is there a Gazette citation for the appointment as an officer? All I could find in a search was the commander and knight.--> On 30 July 1992, he was promoted to the rank of Associate [[Knight]] in that Order<ref name="Gazette 1992">{{LondonGazette|issue=53005|startpage=12843|date=30 July 1992|accessdate=2007-11-29}} </ref> and currently serves as Vice-Chancellor of the Priory in the US.<ref name='VOSJ US'> {{cite web|url=http://www.saintjohn.org/appointments/appointments.pdf |title=The Priory in the United States of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem|accessdate=2007-06-06 |last= |first= |date=15 November 2006 |publisher= [[Venerable Order of St John]] |format=PDF}}</ref> He was formerly a member of the [[Savoy]] [[Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus]]<ref name='Saints M & L'> {{cite web|url=http://www.savoydelegation-usa.org/events_gallery.asp?id=439&gallery=Gallery%2FEVENTS%2FEVENTS_439%2F |title=: : Events : : |accessdate=2007-05-25 |last= |first= |month=August | year=2003 |publisher= American Delegation of Savoy Orders }}</ref> but resigned in 2006{{Fact|date=June 2007}} and is the Vice-Grand Chancellor of the [[Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George]] (Spanish branch), of which he is a Bailiff Grand Cross.<ref name='Saint George'> {{cite web|url=http://www.constantinianorder.org/english/membership.html |title= Membership - Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George |accessdate=2007-05-25 |last= |first= |year= 2007 |publisher= Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George }}</ref> Sainty's armorial bookplate shows the insignia of the (Spanish) [[Order of St. Januarius]], the Venerable Order of Saint John, the [[Order of St. Gregory]] the Great, the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George, the Order of Merito Melitense of the [[Sovereign Military Order of Malta]] and the [[Order of Saint Joseph]] of Tuscany.<ref name='Bookplate'> {{cite web|url=http://www.bookplate.info/Bookplate/britain_3.htm#GSS |title=G Britain III |accessdate=2007-05-25 |last= |first= |date=15 May 1998 |publisher= José Vicente de Bragança & J. Stewart LeForte }}</ref> Sainty has also served as a senior county staff officer to H.R.H. [[Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia]].<ref name='Tomislav'> {{cite web|url=http://www.newyorkfamilyhistory.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=58 |title=The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society - Nobility And Heraldry With Guy Stair Sainty On January 25th |accessdate=2007-06-11 |last= |first= |date=2000-2007 |publisher=The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society }}</ref>
Guy Sainty has been involved in the world of chivalry and heraldry for many years. He has served as leader of the International Patrons of the Arts of the Vatican Museums{{Fact|date=June 2007}}, and as one of three consultants to the Committee on the Orders of Saint John of the [[Sovereign Military Order of Malta]] and the [[Alliance of Orders of Saint John]].{{Fact|date=June 2007}} He is a member of the [[Royal Academy of Heraldry and Genealogy of Madrid]]{{Fact|date=June 2007}} and has served as a County Staff Officer (Sussex) in the St John Ambulance. Sainty was later made an officer, then an Associated Commander Brother of the [[Venerable Order of Saint John]] on 16 June 1989.<ref name="Gazette 1989">{{LondonGazette|issue=51767|startpage=7104|date=16 June 1989|accessdate=2007-11-29}}</ref><!-- Is there a Gazette citation for the appointment as an officer? All I could find in a search was the commander and knight.--> On 30 July 1992, he was promoted to the rank of Associate [[Knight]] in that Order<ref name="Gazette 1992">{{LondonGazette|issue=53005|startpage=12843|date=30 July 1992|accessdate=2007-11-29}} </ref> and currently serves as Vice-Chancellor of the Priory in the US.<ref name='VOSJ US'> {{cite web|url=http://www.saintjohn.org/appointments/appointments.pdf |title=The Priory in the United States of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem|accessdate=2007-06-06 |last= |first= |date=15 November 2006 |publisher= [[Venerable Order of St John]] |format=PDF}}</ref> He was formerly a member of the [[Savoy]] [[Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus]]<ref name='Saints M & L'> {{cite web|url=http://www.savoydelegation-usa.org/events_gallery.asp?id=439&gallery=Gallery%2FEVENTS%2FEVENTS_439%2F |title=: : Events : : |accessdate=2007-05-25 |last= |first= |month=August | year=2003 |publisher= American Delegation of Savoy Orders }}</ref> but resigned in 2006{{Fact|date=June 2007}} and is the Vice-Grand Chancellor of the [[Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George]] (Spanish branch), of which he is a Bailiff Grand Cross.<ref name='Saint George'> {{cite web|url=http://www.constantinianorder.org/english/membership.html |title= Membership - Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George |accessdate=2007-05-25 |last= |first= |year= 2007 |publisher= Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George }}</ref> Sainty's armorial bookplate shows the insignia of the (Spanish) [[Order of St. Januarius]], the Venerable Order of Saint John, the [[Order of St. Gregory]] the Great, the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George, the Order of Merito Melitense of the [[Sovereign Military Order of Malta]] and the [[Order of Saint Joseph]] of Tuscany.<ref name='Bookplate'> {{cite web|url=http://www.bookplate.info/Bookplate/britain_3.htm#GSS |title=G Britain III |accessdate=2007-05-25 |last= |first= |date=15 May 1998 |publisher= José Vicente de Bragança & J. Stewart LeForte }}</ref> Sainty has also served as a senior county staff officer to H.R.H. [[Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia]].<ref name='Tomislav'> {{cite web|url=http://www.newyorkfamilyhistory.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=58 |title=The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society - Nobility And Heraldry With Guy Stair Sainty On January 25th |accessdate=2007-06-11 |last= |first= |date=2000-2007 |publisher=The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society }}</ref>


Sainty is an armiger having had arms granted by the [[College of Arms]] in London, matriculated at the [[Court of the Lord Lyon]] in Edinburgh, and certified by the Cronista de Armas in Spain. The blazon of these arms is ''Azure a Chief Gules over all in pale two Hippocampuses respectant Or and in the Azure two Keys palewise wards upwards and outwards the bows linked in Or''.<ref name='rec.heraldry Roll'> {{cite web|url=http://jgrimbert.free.fr/herald/rh/ |title=Roll of Arms of rec.heraldry |accessdate=2007-05-25 |last= |first= |date=1 January 2007 |publisher= Jérôme Grimbert }}</ref> The blazon makes coincidental reference to those of a Sankey armiger, though Mr Sainty does not claim any such descent, his own lineage not having been traced to before the 18th century. His ancestral nobility not having been recognised, Sainty was invested into the non-nobiliary grade of grace in the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in 2008.
Sainty is an armiger having had arms granted by the [[College of Arms]] in London, matriculated at the [[Court of the Lord Lyon]] in Edinburgh, and certified by the Cronista de Armas in Spain. The blazon of these arms is ''Azure a Chief Gules over all in pale two Hippocampuses respectant Or and in the Azure two Keys palewise wards upwards and outwards the bows linked in Or''.<ref name='rec.heraldry Roll'> {{cite web|url=http://jgrimbert.free.fr/herald/rh/ |title=Roll of Arms of rec.heraldry |accessdate=2007-05-25 |last= |first= |date=1 January 2007 |publisher= Jérôme Grimbert }}</ref> The blazon makes coincidental reference to those of a Sankey armiger, though Mr Sainty does not claim any such descent, his own lineage not having been traced to before the 18th century. His ancestral nobility not having been recognised, Sainty was invested into the non-nobiliary grade of grace in the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in 2008.{{fact}}


In September 2007, Mr. Sainty was made a fellow of the [http://www.icocregister.org/ International Commission of Orders of Chivalry] (ICOC). Sainty is also listed in the ICOC as an authority on matters relating to Orders of St John and the Alliance of the Orders of St John .<ref name='ICOC'> {{cite web|url=http://www.icocregister.org/patronsandmembers.htm|title=PATRONS AND MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FOR ORDERS OF CHIVALRY
In September 2007, Mr. Sainty was made a fellow of the [http://www.icocregister.org/ International Commission of Orders of Chivalry] (ICOC). Sainty is also listed in the ICOC as an authority on matters relating to Orders of St John and the Alliance of the Orders of St John .<ref name='ICOC'> {{cite web|url=http://www.icocregister.org/patronsandmembers.htm|title=PATRONS AND MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FOR ORDERS OF CHIVALRY

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Guy Stair Sainty
Born1950
Clayton Priory, Hassocks, Sussex, England
EducationWestminster and College of Law
OccupationArt dealer
SpouseElizabeth Pierson Sainty
ChildrenSix
Parent(s)Christopher Lawrence Sainty and Virginia Cade Stair

Guy Stair Sainty is an art dealer and author on royal genealogy and heraldry.

Life and education

Guy Sainty is the son of the late Christopher Lawrence Sainty of Clayton Priory, Hassocks, Sussex by his second wife Virginia Cade, née Stair, and half-brother of Sir John Sainty. His grandfather, Arthur Stair, was an architect who later founded Stair & Company, an art and antique dealing company in Manhattan and London, while his great-grandfather, Edwin Cade, founded the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation, which operated gold mines in Ghana.[1] He was born in 1950 at Clayton Priory, Hassocks, Sussex where he served as a county staff officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade.[2] He attended Highfield School in Hampshire and Westminster School, London, and continued his education in Rome and at The College of Law in London.[2] The Sainty family was Anglican. As a young man Guy converted to the Roman Catholic Church.[citation needed] In 1979, he moved to New York[3] and founded the Stair Sainty Gallery .[4] In May 1983, he married Cynthia Volk and the two had three children.[1] After this marriage was dissolved by divorce in 1993 and annulled by the Catholic Church in 1995,[citation needed] Sainty married Elizabeth Pierson, a private dealer in 19th and 20th century art in New York, in Washington on 28 May 1995 and in a second, Catholic ceremony, at the London Oratory on 28 September 1995.[5] With his second wife, Sainty had three more children.[3] In 2005 he founded a new gallery, Stair Sainty Ltd at a premises at 38 Dover Street, London W1S 4LN, which he shares with two other art dealers, Count Edmondo di Robilant (married to Dr Maya Even) and Marco Voena.[6]

Published works

Sainty has contributed to many works on art of the early modern period. In addition, one of his most ambitious works to date has been the publication of World Orders of Knighthood and Merit by Burke's Peerage and Gentry (ISBN 0971196672). It was co-edited by Rafal Heydel-Mankoo in 2006. He has also written extensively on individual orders of chivalry, such as the Sacred Military Order of Constantine of Saint George and the five recognised Orders of Saint John. His published works include:

  • Sacred Military Order of Constantine of Saint George 1976
  • First Painters of the King: French Royal Taste from Louis XIV the Revolution 1985
  • François Boucher: His Circle and Influence 1987
  • The Orders of Chivalry and Merit of the Bourbon Two Sicilies Dynasty 1989
  • Eighty Years of French Painting: 1775-1855 1991
  • The Orders of Saint John 1991
  • La Insigne Orden de Tosón de Oro 1996
  • Romance and Chivalry: Literature and History Reflected in Early 19th Century French Painting 1996
  • An Eye on Nature II: French Landscape Painting from 1785-1900 1999

In addition he has written numerous articles in scholarly publications on nobility, European royal dynasties, and orders of chivalry. In 1998 he assisted with the return of the Almanach de Gotha. Sainty also maintains an extensive website detailing the histories and current status of many chivalric orders.

Appointments, awards, and decorations

Guy Sainty has been involved in the world of chivalry and heraldry for many years. He has served as leader of the International Patrons of the Arts of the Vatican Museums[citation needed], and as one of three consultants to the Committee on the Orders of Saint John of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and the Alliance of Orders of Saint John.[citation needed] He is a member of the Royal Academy of Heraldry and Genealogy of Madrid[citation needed] and has served as a County Staff Officer (Sussex) in the St John Ambulance. Sainty was later made an officer, then an Associated Commander Brother of the Venerable Order of Saint John on 16 June 1989.[7] On 30 July 1992, he was promoted to the rank of Associate Knight in that Order[8] and currently serves as Vice-Chancellor of the Priory in the US.[9] He was formerly a member of the Savoy Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus[10] but resigned in 2006[citation needed] and is the Vice-Grand Chancellor of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George (Spanish branch), of which he is a Bailiff Grand Cross.[11] Sainty's armorial bookplate shows the insignia of the (Spanish) Order of St. Januarius, the Venerable Order of Saint John, the Order of St. Gregory the Great, the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George, the Order of Merito Melitense of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and the Order of Saint Joseph of Tuscany.[12] Sainty has also served as a senior county staff officer to H.R.H. Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia.[13]

Sainty is an armiger having had arms granted by the College of Arms in London, matriculated at the Court of the Lord Lyon in Edinburgh, and certified by the Cronista de Armas in Spain. The blazon of these arms is Azure a Chief Gules over all in pale two Hippocampuses respectant Or and in the Azure two Keys palewise wards upwards and outwards the bows linked in Or.[14] The blazon makes coincidental reference to those of a Sankey armiger, though Mr Sainty does not claim any such descent, his own lineage not having been traced to before the 18th century. His ancestral nobility not having been recognised, Sainty was invested into the non-nobiliary grade of grace in the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in 2008.[citation needed]

In September 2007, Mr. Sainty was made a fellow of the International Commission of Orders of Chivalry (ICOC). Sainty is also listed in the ICOC as an authority on matters relating to Orders of St John and the Alliance of the Orders of St John .[15]

Libel suit by Rosario Poidimani

In Italy Rosario Poidimani brought a libel suit against Sainty's internet analysis of the imposter pretender Hilda Toledano and Rosario to the Portuguese Crown.[16] An Italian court ruled in Mr. Sainty's favor and found that the law suit against him was frivolous.[17] Poidimani and Roberto Cavallaro, and six of his close collaborators were arrested in Italy on 22 March 2007 and charged with fraud, forging documents, extortion, and criminal association. The Italian tax police (Guardia di Finanza) seized 712 forged diplomatic passports, 600 forged diplomatic IDs, 135 forged CD plates and they also took away his throne.[18]

References

  1. ^ a b "Miss Volk Weds Guy Stair Sainty - New York Times". The New York Times. 5 February 1983. Retrieved 2007-05-23.
  2. ^ a b "World Orders of Knighthood & Merit - Contributors" (PDF). Burke's Peerage & Gentry (UK). None Given. Retrieved 2007-05-23. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ^ "Class Notes". Colorado College. 1995. Retrieved 2007-05-23.
  4. ^ "ROBILANT + VOENA". Robilant and Voena. None Given. Retrieved 2007-06-05. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  5. ^ "No. 51767". The London Gazette. 16 June 1989.
  6. ^ "No. 53005". The London Gazette. 30 July 1992.
  7. ^ "The Priory in the United States of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem" (PDF). Venerable Order of St John. 15 November 2006. Retrieved 2007-06-06.
  8. ^ ": : Events : :". American Delegation of Savoy Orders. 2003. Retrieved 2007-05-25. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  9. ^ "Membership - Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George". Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George. 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-25.
  10. ^ "G Britain III". José Vicente de Bragança & J. Stewart LeForte. 15 May 1998. Retrieved 2007-05-25.
  11. ^ "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society - Nobility And Heraldry With Guy Stair Sainty On January 25th". The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. 2000–2007. Retrieved 2007-06-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date format (link)
  12. ^ "Roll of Arms of rec.heraldry". Jérôme Grimbert. 1 January 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-25.
  13. ^ "PATRONS AND MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FOR ORDERS OF CHIVALRY". Retrieved 2008-06-21.
  14. ^ "A brief response to statements made by the supporters of the late Maria Pia de Saxe". Guy Stair Sainty. None Given. Retrieved 2007-05-29. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  15. ^ "Poidimani_Sainty". International Commission for Orders of Chivalry. 5 August 2004. Retrieved 2007-05-31.
  16. ^ "Web of fantasy is revealed as 'last king of Portugal' goes on trial", The Independent, 25 March 2007.

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