GUY STAIR SAINTY

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

Contents

Life and education

Published works

Appointments, awards, and decorations

Libel suit by Rosario Poidimani

References

External links

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 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. Miss Volk Weds Guy Stair Sainty - New York Times He was born in 1950 at Clayton Priory, Hassocks, Sussex where he served as a county staff officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade. World Orders of Knighthood & Merit - Contributors He attended Highfield School in Hampshire and Westminster School, London, and continued his education in Rome and at The College of Law in London. The Sainty family was Anglican. As a young man Guy converted to the Roman Catholic Church. In 1979, he moved to New York ::: Stair Sainty Gallery ::: and founded the Stair Sainty Gallery . ::: Stair Sainty Gallery ::: London, UK In May 1983, he married Cynthia Volk and the two had three children. After this marriage was dissolved by divorce in 1993 and annulled by the Catholic Church in 1995, 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. Class Notes With his second wife, Sainty had three more children. 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. ROBILANT + VOENA

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. He 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, and as a consultant to the Committee on the Orders of Saint John of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and the Alliance of Orders of Saint John. He is a member of the Royal Academy of Heraldry and Genealogy of Madrid and has served as a County Staff Officer (Sussex) in the St John Ambulance. Sainty was later made an officer, then commander of the Venerable Order of Saint John on 16 June 1989. Gazette: Archive View On 30 July 1992, he was promoted to the rank of knight in that Order Gazette: Archive View and currently serves as Vice-Chancellor of the Priory in the US. THE PRIORY IN THE UNITED STATES OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSPITAL OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM He was formerly a member of the Savoyard Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus : : Events : : but resigned in 2006 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. MEMBERSHIP - Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George 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. G Britain III Sainty has also served as a senior county staff officer to H.R.H. Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia. The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society - Nobility And Heraldry With Guy Stair Sainty On January 25th
Sainty is also 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''. Roll of Arms of rec.heraldry

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. A BRIEF RESPONSE TO STATEMENTS MADE BY THE SUPPORTERS OF THE LATE MARIA PIA DE SAXE An Italian court ruled in Mr. Sainty's favor and found that the law suit against him was frivolous. POIDIMANI_SAINTY 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 seized 712 forged diplomatic passports, 600 forged diplomatic IDs, 135 forged CD plates and they also took away his throne.^[1]

References

1. "Web of fantasy is revealed as 'last king of Portugal' goes on trial", ''The Independant'', 25 March 2007.

External links

★ Stair Sainty Galleries

★ Almanach de la Cour Homepage

★ World Orders of Knighthood and Merit

★ Guy Stair Sainty's Coat of Arms