THE KINGDOMS AND LANDS OF THE CROWN OF RUTHENIA AND THE LANDS REPRESENTED IN THE COUNCIL OF KARNIA
HIS IMPERIAL AND ROYAL MAJESTY’S OWN OFFICE
HIS IMPERIAL AND ROYAL MAJESTY’S OWN OFFICE
In this Twenty-sixth day of May in the year Two Thousand and Sixteen, comes to public the Emperor of Karnia and King of Ruthenia, express His will, using the powers granted to Him by the Constitution, in accordance with Article 7, Chapter I, DECIDED:
ARTICLE I. CONSIDERING the essentiality of a State has ways of be known for its history and traditions through common symbols and whose greater significance is the union of all those who inhabit this Empire.
ARTICLE II. CONSIDERING the need for the State to improve its heraldic art and national vexillology and better represent the whole Empire at times when it is appropriate.
ARTICLE III. CONSIDERING the request made and magnanimously delivered by Imperial and Royal Heraldry Academy and made by our Most Excellent King of Arms, the Duke Guilherme of Libertia, we inform to whom it may concern and designate as the official representations of the Empire of Karnia-Ruthenia the following national symbols.
ARTICLE IV. CONSIDERING the importance of our symbols, its use should always be the most honorable way and in order to represent the dignity of the Empire, being considered a crime to misuse them or use for the purpose of offending the Empire, its people and its institutions.
ARTICLE V. The National Flag for civil use shall consist of seven horizontal stripes in red and white, interspersed and should be the first and last stripe red. To use of State, the National Flag will have the Ruthenian Eagle at its center.
ARTICLE VI. The Imperial Standards will be used by members of the Imperial Family and will always be used in the presence of these. The standard for the Emperor and Empress was set on a wine red field with black-yellow-red-white-green triangular border. In the middle was set coat of arms impaled Imperial and Royal House crowned with two crowns – the Ruthenian and the Karnian crowns and surrounded with the collar of the Order of Edelweiss. Similar standard was prescribed for archdukes and archduchesses, differing in the flag field color – here being Ruthenian Orange, and the two crowns were replaced with a heraldic crown.
ARTICLE VII. The National Coat of Arms will have three versions, all with equal and concurrent use, with the opportunity to indicate the most appropriate time for the use.
The main coat of arms of the Empire will be based on the work of Hugo Gerhard Ströhl (1851-1919): the “Ruthenian Eagle” or “Imperial Eagle”, a selfstanding double-headed eagle sable, armed and crowned or, holding a sceptre and sword in dexter claw and an orb in sinister claw, all proper, beneath the Ruthenian Imperial Crown proper stringed azure; on its breast an escutcheon surrounded by the Collar of the Order of Edelweiss, bearing tierced per pale: Or, a lion rampant sable (House of Thomaz-Rocha), the Árpad stripes - four Argent and four Gules stripes (House of Árpad), Argent double cross on Gules base, situated inside a small Or crown, the crown is placed on the middle heap of three Vert hills (House of Goëtzën). On the wings and on the tail are arranged coat of arms of the lands, counterclockwise: Bessabia, Libertia, Escandia, Gaussland, St. Stephen, the coat of arms of the House of Goëtzën, Persenburg, St. Peter and St. Paul, Karnia, Acrin and Ruthenia.
The medium coat of arms, also inspired by the work of Hugo Gerhard Ströhl (1851-1919), two angels in support, two escutcheons – in dexter the escutcheon of the lands of Karnia and in sinister the Imperial Eagle and the escutcheon of the Lands of Ruthenia - united by the dynastic escutcheon with a heraldic crown and surrounded with the collar of the Order of Edelweiss and below the Order of the Queen, the Order of St. Stephen and the Order of the Lion and the motto “Indivisibiliter ac Inseparabiliter” and “XXXVI”. The small coat of arms is similar to the medium coat of arms, but dismissed the supports and the Order of the Queen, the Order of St. Stephen and the Order of the Lion, while maintaining the motto.
ARTICLE VIII. CONSIDERING the importance of our symbols, its use is protected by the laws of the Empire and also by international laws pertinent to artistic creation and cannot be considered public domain, unlike the works that inspired the Imperial and Royal Armorial.
ARTICLE IX. OTHER parts of heraldic art and vexillology are subject to the style found in these works and these should stay unchanged.
ARTICLE X. OTHER flags and coats of arms to be used within the Empire will be presented under the terms of this decree at the appropriate time.
ARTICLE XI. THE use of the former armorial and vexillology will be allowed until the date of the Proclamation of the Empire.
ARTICLE I. CONSIDERING the essentiality of a State has ways of be known for its history and traditions through common symbols and whose greater significance is the union of all those who inhabit this Empire.
ARTICLE II. CONSIDERING the need for the State to improve its heraldic art and national vexillology and better represent the whole Empire at times when it is appropriate.
ARTICLE III. CONSIDERING the request made and magnanimously delivered by Imperial and Royal Heraldry Academy and made by our Most Excellent King of Arms, the Duke Guilherme of Libertia, we inform to whom it may concern and designate as the official representations of the Empire of Karnia-Ruthenia the following national symbols.
ARTICLE IV. CONSIDERING the importance of our symbols, its use should always be the most honorable way and in order to represent the dignity of the Empire, being considered a crime to misuse them or use for the purpose of offending the Empire, its people and its institutions.
ARTICLE V. The National Flag for civil use shall consist of seven horizontal stripes in red and white, interspersed and should be the first and last stripe red. To use of State, the National Flag will have the Ruthenian Eagle at its center.
ARTICLE VI. The Imperial Standards will be used by members of the Imperial Family and will always be used in the presence of these. The standard for the Emperor and Empress was set on a wine red field with black-yellow-red-white-green triangular border. In the middle was set coat of arms impaled Imperial and Royal House crowned with two crowns – the Ruthenian and the Karnian crowns and surrounded with the collar of the Order of Edelweiss. Similar standard was prescribed for archdukes and archduchesses, differing in the flag field color – here being Ruthenian Orange, and the two crowns were replaced with a heraldic crown.
ARTICLE VII. The National Coat of Arms will have three versions, all with equal and concurrent use, with the opportunity to indicate the most appropriate time for the use.
The main coat of arms of the Empire will be based on the work of Hugo Gerhard Ströhl (1851-1919): the “Ruthenian Eagle” or “Imperial Eagle”, a selfstanding double-headed eagle sable, armed and crowned or, holding a sceptre and sword in dexter claw and an orb in sinister claw, all proper, beneath the Ruthenian Imperial Crown proper stringed azure; on its breast an escutcheon surrounded by the Collar of the Order of Edelweiss, bearing tierced per pale: Or, a lion rampant sable (House of Thomaz-Rocha), the Árpad stripes - four Argent and four Gules stripes (House of Árpad), Argent double cross on Gules base, situated inside a small Or crown, the crown is placed on the middle heap of three Vert hills (House of Goëtzën). On the wings and on the tail are arranged coat of arms of the lands, counterclockwise: Bessabia, Libertia, Escandia, Gaussland, St. Stephen, the coat of arms of the House of Goëtzën, Persenburg, St. Peter and St. Paul, Karnia, Acrin and Ruthenia.
The medium coat of arms, also inspired by the work of Hugo Gerhard Ströhl (1851-1919), two angels in support, two escutcheons – in dexter the escutcheon of the lands of Karnia and in sinister the Imperial Eagle and the escutcheon of the Lands of Ruthenia - united by the dynastic escutcheon with a heraldic crown and surrounded with the collar of the Order of Edelweiss and below the Order of the Queen, the Order of St. Stephen and the Order of the Lion and the motto “Indivisibiliter ac Inseparabiliter” and “XXXVI”. The small coat of arms is similar to the medium coat of arms, but dismissed the supports and the Order of the Queen, the Order of St. Stephen and the Order of the Lion, while maintaining the motto.
ARTICLE VIII. CONSIDERING the importance of our symbols, its use is protected by the laws of the Empire and also by international laws pertinent to artistic creation and cannot be considered public domain, unlike the works that inspired the Imperial and Royal Armorial.
ARTICLE IX. OTHER parts of heraldic art and vexillology are subject to the style found in these works and these should stay unchanged.
ARTICLE X. OTHER flags and coats of arms to be used within the Empire will be presented under the terms of this decree at the appropriate time.
ARTICLE XI. THE use of the former armorial and vexillology will be allowed until the date of the Proclamation of the Empire.
PUBLISH et COMPLY.
Done and passed in the Imperial Palace, at the Imperial and Royal Majesty’s Own Office, on the Twenty-sixth day of May in the year of Two Thousand and Sixteen of grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
