Jiří Louda

Additionally, Louda created the coat of arms of the Olomouc Region, as well as the municipal coats of arms for more than 200 towns and cities throughout the Czech Republic. Louda was born in Kutná Hora, Czechoslovakia, on 3 October 1920. He fled to the United Kingdom during World War II and the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, where the Czechoslovak government-in-exile was headquartered. He joined the exiled Czechoslovak military during World War II and served as a paratrooper. He was imprisoned by the Czechoslovak Communist regime during the late 1940s, and released in 1950. He is best known in the English-speaking world to students of royal and noble genealogies and royal families as co-author with Michael Maclagan (who wrote the text, while Louda compiled and drew the tables) of the best-selling Lines of Succession, first published in 1981, and subsequently reprinted and revised on several occasions. Louda died in Olomouc on 1 September 2015, at the age of 94.

The recorded working language is Czech. The field of work recorded is heraldry. Places of work recorded in the authority are Jihlava, Olomouc and Vyškov. Distinctions recorded are Czech Medal of Merit, Olomouc City Award, honorary doctor of the Palacký University Olomouc and honorary citizen of Kutná Hora.

• Name — Jiři Louda • Escutcheon — Gules a fess between in chief a mullet of six points Argent between two lions passant guardant Or and in base a winged parachute Argent. Pendant from the shield the Czechoslovak War Cross 1939 and the Czech Medal for Military Merit • Crest — Out of a ducal coronet Or, a sword erect argent hilted Or between two wings Gules • Motto — Quo fas et gloria ducunt

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