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| name = Guy Stair Sainty
| name = Guy Stair Sainty
| honorific_suffix = [[KStJ]] [[Order of St. Gregory the Great|KC*SG]]
| image_size = 120px
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1950|12|7}}
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1950|12|7}}
| birth_place = Clayton Priory, [[Hassocks]], Sussex, England
| birth_place = Clayton Priory, [[Hassocks]], Sussex, England
| education = [[Westminster School]]
| education = [[Westminster School]]
| alma_mater = [[Sapienza University of Rome|University of Rome]] <br> [[The University of Law|College of Law]]
| alma_mater = [[Sapienza University of Rome|University of Rome]] <br /> [[The University of Law|College of Law]]
| occupation = Art dealer
| occupation = Art dealer
| spouse = Elizabeth Pierson (m.1995),<ref name='Colorado Notes' />
| spouse = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|Cynthia Holland Ash Volk|1983|1993|end=divorce}}
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| parents = Christopher Lawrence Sainty and Virginia Cade Stair
* {{marriage|Elizabeth Frost Pierson|1995}}<ref name='Colorado Notes' />
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| children = 6
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| parents = Christopher Lawrence Sainty and Virginia Cade Stair
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| children = 6
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'''Guy Stair Sainty''', [[Order of St. Gregory the Great|KC*SG]] (born 7 December 1950)<ref>[http://www.papalknights.org.uk/assoc-members.html Papal knights] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206024623/http://www.papalknights.org.uk/assoc-members.html |date=6 February 2012 }} – Website of the Association of Papal Orders in Great Britain</ref> is a British [[art dealer]] and author on [[nobility]], royal [[genealogy]], and [[heraldry]].
'''Guy Stair Sainty''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KStJ|KC*SG}} (born 7 December 1950)<ref>[http://www.papalknights.org.uk/assoc-members.html Papal knights] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206024623/http://www.papalknights.org.uk/assoc-members.html |date=6 February 2012 }} – Website of the Association of Papal Orders in Great Britain</ref> is a British [[art dealer]] and author on [[nobility]], royal [[genealogy]], and [[heraldry]].


==Life and education==
==Life and education==
Guy Stair Sainty is the son of Christopher Lawrence Sainty.<ref name=Volk>{{cite news|title=Miss Volk Weds Guy Stair Sainty|work=The New York Times|date=5 February 1983|page=12|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/02/05/style/miss-volk-weds-guy-stair-sainty.html|quote=Cynthia Holland Ash Volk, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hohne Volk of New York and Quaker Hill, Pawling, N.Y., was married yesterday to Guy Stair Sainty, son of Mrs. Christopher Lawrence Sainty of London and the late Mr. Sainty. The Rev. James Whittemore performed the ceremony in the chapel of Trinity Episcopal Church in Manhattan....Mr. Sainty is president of Stair Sainty Fine Art Inc. in Manhattan, which specializes in French painting of the late 18th and 19th centuries. He attended the Westminster School in London and the University of Rome and graduated from the College of Law in London}}</ref> His father was Chief Engineer and Director of Carrier Engineering Co Ltd.<ref>Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives</ref> He attended Highfield School in Hampshire and [[Westminster School]], London, and continued his education in Rome and at [[University of Law|The College of Law]] in London.<ref name=Volk /> In 1979, he moved to New York<ref>{{cite news|last=Powell|first=Robert Andrew|title=Diplomatic Impunity: Wouldn't you love to rub shoulders with a man who has been knighted by the Queen of England, honored by the Pope, and appointed our local Liberian ambassador? Of course you would!|url=http://www.miaminewtimes.com/content/printVersion/237778/|accessdate=18 September 2011|newspaper=The Miami New Times|date=24 July 1997|quote=The native of Sussex, England, who has operated an art gallery in New York City since 1979, has published more than eleven academic texts, including The Orders of Saint John, an obscure but authoritative treatise on the Knights of Malta..}}</ref> and founded the Stair Sainty Gallery<!-- (www.europeanpaintings.com) link already included at end -->.<ref name='Sainty Gallery 2'>{{cite web|url=http://www.europeanpaintings.com/html/testo_london.asp |title=::: Stair Sainty Gallery ::: London, UK |accessdate=23 May 2007 |last= |first= |date=2000–2005 |publisher=The Stair Sainty Gallery |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070927021631/http://www.europeanpaintings.com/html/testo_london.asp <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 27 September 2007}}</ref>
Guy Stair Sainty is the son of Christopher Lawrence Sainty and Virginia Cade Stair, grand-daughter of [[Alfred Stair]].<ref name=Volk>{{cite news|title=Miss Volk Weds Guy Stair Sainty|work=The New York Times|date=5 February 1983|page=12|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/02/05/style/miss-volk-weds-guy-stair-sainty.html|quote=Cynthia Holland Ash Volk, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hohne Volk of New York and Quaker Hill, Pawling, N.Y., was married yesterday to Guy Stair Sainty, son of Mrs. Christopher Lawrence Sainty of London and the late Mr. Sainty. The Rev. James Whittemore performed the ceremony in the chapel of Trinity Episcopal Church in Manhattan....Mr. Sainty is president of Stair Sainty Fine Art Inc. in Manhattan, which specializes in French painting of the late 18th and 19th centuries. He attended the Westminster School in London and the University of Rome and graduated from the College of Law in London}}</ref> His father was Chief Engineer and Director of Carrier Engineering Co Ltd.<ref>Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives</ref> He attended Highfield School in Hampshire and [[Westminster School]], London, and continued his education in Rome and at [[University of Law|The College of Law]] in London.<ref name=Volk /> In 1979, he moved to New York but returned to Europe in 2002, first to Paris and then to London where the Stair Sainty Gallery has been based since 2005. The gallery specialises primarily in French and Spanish painting from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century and has sold works of art to many of the world's great museums, publishing catalogues on a range of artists and schools.


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He married, firstly, on 5 February 1983, Cynthia Holland Ash Volk,<ref>{{Cite news |date=5 December 1982 |title=Guy Sainty and Cynthia Volk Engaged |language=en-US |page=A102 |work=New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/05/style/guy-sainty-and-cynthia-volk-engaged.html |access-date=13 October 2022 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> with three children, Charles, Clementine, and Della. The marriage ended in divorce in 1993 and ecclesiastical annulment in 1995. Sainty married Elizabeth Frost Pierson, the daughter of W. DeVier Pierson and Shirley Phelps Pierson, née Frost, a private dealer in 19th and 20th century art in New York, in Washington on 28 May 1995<ref name='Colorado Notes'>{{cite web |url=http://www.coloradocollege.edu/Publications/thebulletin/fall95/ClassNotes.html |title=Class Notes |access-date=23 May 2007|year=1995 |publisher=[[Colorado College]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070402074018/http://www.coloradocollege.edu/Publications/thebulletin/fall95/ClassNotes.html |archive-date=2 April 2007 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> and in a second ceremony at the London Oratory on 28 September 1995. With Elizabeth he had three children, George, Julian and Arabella.
He married, firstly, on 5 February 1983, Cynthia Holland Ash, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hohne Volk of New York City and Quaker Hill, Pawling, New York State, in the chapel of Trinity Episcopal Church in Manhattan, New York City.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}


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Sainty is a half-brother, by his father's first wife, of Sir [[John Sainty (civil servant)|John Sainty]], retired [[Clerk of the Parliaments]].{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}
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After his first marriage, which produced his children Charles, Clementine and Della, ended in divorce in 1993 and ecclesiastical annulment, Sainty married Elizabeth Pierson, a private dealer in 19th and 20th century art in New York, in Washington on 28 May 1995<ref name='Colorado Notes'>{{cite web |url=http://www.coloradocollege.edu/Publications/thebulletin/fall95/ClassNotes.html |title=Class Notes |accessdate=23 May 2007 |year=1995 |publisher=[[Colorado College]] |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070402074018/http://www.coloradocollege.edu/Publications/thebulletin/fall95/ClassNotes.html |archivedate=2 April 2007 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> and in a second ceremony at the London Oratory on 28 September 1995. With Elizabeth he had three children, George, Julian and Arabella. In 2005 they founded Stair Sainty Ltd at a premises at 38 Dover Street, London W1S 4LN, which they share with two other art dealers, Edmondo di Robilant and Marco Voena.<ref name='Robilant'>{{cite web|url=http://www.robilantvoena.com |title=Robilant + Voena |accessdate=5 June 2007 |last= |first= |publisher=Robilant and Voena}}</ref>

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Sainty has a half-brother by his father's first wife, Sir [[John Sainty (civil servant)|John Sainty]], retired [[Clerk of the Parliaments]].{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}


==Appointments, awards, and decorations==
==Appointments, awards, and decorations==
Sainty has been involved in the world of chivalry and heraldry for many years. He is a Fellow with the [[International Commission on Orders of Chivalry]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.icocregister.org/patronsandmembers.htm |title = Patrons and Members}}</ref> Sainty is a correspondent member of the Real Academia Matritense de Heraldica y Genealogia (Royal Academy of Heraldry and Genealogy of Madrid).<ref>{{cite book|last1=Mansel|first1=Philip|title=Monarchy and Exile : the politics of the absent ruler from Marie de Medici to Wilhelm II (1631–1941).|year=2010|publisher=Palgrave|location=Basingstoke|isbn=9780230249059|pages=xii|author2=Riotte, Torsten (eds.)|quote=He is a correspondent member of the Real Academia Matritense de Heraldica y Genealogia}}</ref> He has served 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 the Orders of St. John of Jerusalem]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Unrecognized and Self-Styled Orders: Preventive Action Measures by Recognized Orders|url=http://www.saintjohn.org/c/UnrecognizedandSelf-StyledOrders.cfm|work=The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem|publisher=The American Society and The Priory in the United States of America of The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem|accessdate=18 September 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110924122958/http://www.saintjohn.org/c/UnrecognizedandSelf-StyledOrders.cfm|archivedate=24 September 2011|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
Sainty has had an interest in the subject of chivalry and heraldry for many years. He is a Fellow with the [[International Commission on Orders of Chivalry]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.icocregister.org/patronsandmembers.htm |title = Patrons and Members}}</ref> Sainty is a correspondent member of the Real Academia Matritense de Heraldica y Genealogia (Royal Academy of Heraldry and Genealogy of Madrid).<ref>{{cite book|editor-last1=Mansel|editor-first1=Philip|title=Monarchy and Exile : the politics of the absent ruler from Marie de Medici to Wilhelm II (1631–1941). |year=2010 |publisher=Palgrave|location=Basingstoke|isbn=9780230249059|pages=xii|editor-last2=Riotte |editor-first2=Torsten|quote=He is a correspondent member of the Real Academia Matritense de Heraldica y Genealogia}}</ref> He has served for more than twenty years as one of the consultants to the Committee on the Orders of Saint John of the [[Sovereign Military Order of Malta]] and [[The Alliance of the Orders of St. John of Jerusalem]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Unrecognized and Self-Styled Orders: Preventive Action Measures by Recognized Orders|url=http://www.saintjohn.org/c/UnrecognizedandSelf-StyledOrders.cfm|work=The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem|publisher=The American Society and The Priory in the United States of America of The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem|access-date=18 September 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110924122958/http://www.saintjohn.org/c/UnrecognizedandSelf-StyledOrders.cfm|archive-date=24 September 2011|df=dmy-all}}</ref>


Sainty has served as a County Staff Officer (Sussex) in the [[St. John Ambulance]]. He was first appointed an Associate Officer (Brother), then promoted to an Associated Commander (Brother) on 16 June 1989,<ref name="Gazette 1989">{{London Gazette|issue=51767|page=7104|date=16 June 1989}}</ref><!-- Is there a Gazette citation for the appointment as an officer? All I could find in a search was the commander and knight.--> and again promoted to the rank of Associate Knight of the [[Venerable Order of Saint John]] on 30 July 1992.<ref name="Gazette 1992">{{London Gazette|issue=53005|page=12843|date=30 July 1992}}</ref> He was transferred to full membership with the change of Statutes in 1999, and served as Vice-Chancellor of the Priory in the US until June 2008.<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=6 June 2007 |last= |first= |date=15 November 2006 |publisher= [[Venerable Order of St John]] |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070807090906/http://www.saintjohn.org/appointments/appointments.pdf <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 7 August 2007}}</ref>
Sainty has served as a County Staff Officer (Sussex) in the [[St. John Ambulance]]. He was first appointed an Associate Officer (Brother), then promoted to an Associated Commander (Brother) on 16 June 1989,<ref name="Gazette 1989">{{London Gazette|issue=51767|page=7104|date=16 June 1989}}</ref><!-- Is there a Gazette citation for the appointment as an officer? All I could find in a search was the commander and knight.--> and again promoted to the rank of Associate Knight of the [[Venerable Order of Saint John]] on 30 July 1992.<ref name="Gazette 1992">{{London Gazette|issue=53005|page=12843|date=30 July 1992}}</ref> He was transferred to full membership as a knight of Justice with the change of Statutes in 1999, and served as Vice-Chancellor of the Priory in the US until June 2008,<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|access-date=6 June 2007 |date=15 November 2006 |publisher= [[Venerable Order of St John]] |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070807090906/http://www.saintjohn.org/appointments/appointments.pdf <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 7 August 2007}}</ref> but has since transferred to the central roll of the Order.


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=25 May 2007 |last= |first= |date=1 January 2007 |publisher= Jérôme Grimbert}}</ref> Sainty's armorial bookplate shows the membership 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 Saint George]], the [[Order pro merito Melitensi]] 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=25 May 2007 |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=11 June 2007 |last= |first= |date=2000–2007 |publisher=The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society}}</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 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040926000802/http://www.savoydelegation-usa.org/events_gallery.asp?id=439&gallery=Gallery%2FEVENTS%2FEVENTS%5F439%2F |url-status=dead |archive-date=2004-09-26 |title=: : Events |accessdate=25 May 2007 |date=August 2003 |publisher=American Delegation of Savoy Orders }}</ref> but resigned in 2006{{Citation needed|date=June 2007}} and is the Vice-Grand Chancellor of the [[Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George]] ([[House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies|Hispano-Neapolitan 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=25 May 2007 |last= |first= |year= 2007 |publisher= Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070520043601/http://www.constantinianorder.org/english/membership.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 20 May 2007}}</ref>
Sainty is an [[armiger]], having had arms granted by the [[College of Arms]] in London, and matriculated at the [[Court of the Lord Lyon]] in [[Edinburgh]].<ref name='rec.heraldry Roll'>{{cite web|url= http://jgrimbert.free.fr/herald/rh/ |title=Roll of Arms of rec.heraldry |access-date=25 May 2007 |date=1 January 2007 |publisher= Jérôme Grimbert}}</ref><ref name='Bookplate'>{{cite web|url =http://www.bookplate.info/Bookplate/britain_3.htm#GSS |title=G Britain III |access-date=25 May 2007 |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 |access-date=11 June 2007 |date=2000–2007 |publisher=The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society}}</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 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040926000802/http://www.savoydelegation-usa.org/events_gallery.asp?id=439&gallery=Gallery%2FEVENTS%2FEVENTS%5F439%2F |url-status=dead |archive-date=2004-09-26 |title=Events |access-date=25 May 2007 |date=August 2003 |publisher=American Delegation of Savoy Orders }}</ref> but resigned in 2006{{Citation needed|date=June 2007}} and is the Vice-Grand Chancellor of the [[Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George]] ([[House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies|Hispano-Neapolitan 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 |access-date=25 May 2007 |year= 2007 |publisher= Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070520043601/http://www.constantinianorder.org/english/membership.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 20 May 2007}}</ref> In 2018 the [https://tienda.boe.es/detail.php?id=978843402506600002 Boletín Oficial del Estado] published [https://www.boe.es/biblioteca_juridica/abrir_pdf.php?id=PUB-DH-2019-149_2 "The Constantinian Order of Saint George"] by Sainty, the first publication in English by the BOE, with a translation in [https://www.boe.es/biblioteca_juridica/abrir_pdf.php?id=PUB-DH-2019-149_1 Spanish] published in 2020.


On 15 January 2014, Sainty was awarded the rank of Commander (Encomienda) of the [[Order of Isabella the Catholic]] by [[King Juan Carlos I]] and received unrestricted permission to wear the decorations on 27 July 2017.{{Citation needed|date=June 2020}}
On 15 January 2014, Sainty was awarded the rank of Commander (Encomienda) of the [[Order of Isabella the Catholic]] by [[King Juan Carlos I]] and received unrestricted permission to wear the decorations on 27 July 2017.{{Citation needed|date=June 2020}}

* {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} Knight of Justice of the [[Venerable Order of Saint John of Jerusalem]]
* {{flagicon|Holy See}} Knight Commander with Star of the [[Order of Saint Gregory the Great]]
* {{flagicon|Spain}} Commander (Encomienda) of the [[Order of Isabella the Catholic]]

===Dynastic Orders===
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* {{flagicon|Two Sicilies}} Bailiff Grand Cross of the [[Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George]]


==Libel suit by Rosario Poidimani==
==Libel suit by Rosario Poidimani==


In December 2003, [[Rosario Poidimani]] sued Sainty in an Italian court for [[libel]], on account of his published analysis of the claims to the Portuguese throne of [[Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança]] and Rosario Poidimani.<ref>[http://www.chivalricorders.org/royalty/fantasy/portugal-false.htm]</ref> In March 2016, the Italian [[Court of Appeal of Venice]] decided in Sainty's favour, rejecting the claim of Poidimani. (No. 730/2016 published 30/03/2016, RG n. 2667/2010, Repert. n. 680/2016 del 30.03.2016.){{citation needed|date=June 2020}}
In December 2003, [[Rosario Poidimani]] sued Sainty in an Italian court for [[libel]], on account of his published analysis of the claims to the Portuguese throne of [[Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança]] and Rosario Poidimani.<ref>http://www.chivalricorders.org/royalty/fantasy/portugal-false.htm</ref> In August 2010, Rosario Poidimani won a decision against Sainty in the court of Vicenza; for defamation allegedly caused by the article, Sainty was ordered to pay twenty thousand euro in the judgment. In March 2016, the Italian [[Court of Appeal of Venice]] decided in Sainty's favour, rejecting the claim of Poidimani. (No. 730/2016 published 30/03/2016, RG n. 2667/2010, Repert. n. 680/2016 of 30.03.2016.){{citation needed|date=June 2020}}


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
*[https://www.ilgiornaledivicenza.it/argomenti/il-principe-poidimani-batte-il-re-dell-araldica-1.1165243 Poidimani against Stair Sainty]
*[http://www.europeanpaintings.com/ Stair Sainty Galleries]
*[http://www.stairsainty.com/ Stair Sainty Galleries]
*[http://www.bookplate.info/Bookplate/britain_3.htm#GSS Guy Stair Sainty's Coat of Arms as a heraldic bookplate]
*[http://www.bookplate.info/Bookplate/britain_3.htm#GSS Guy Stair Sainty's Coat of Arms as a heraldic bookplate]
*[http://www.chivalricorders.org/ Almanach de la Cour Homepage]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070502040923/http://www.wokm.co.uk/ World Orders of Knighthood and Merit]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070502040923/http://www.wokm.co.uk/ World Orders of Knighthood and Merit]
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Guy Stair Sainty
KStJ KC*SG
Born (1950-12-07) 7 December 1950 (age 73)
Clayton Priory, Hassocks, Sussex, England
EducationWestminster School
Alma materUniversity of Rome
College of Law
OccupationArt dealer
Spouses
Cynthia Holland Ash Volk
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(m. 1983; div. 1993)​
Elizabeth Frost Pierson
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(m. 1995)​
[1]
Children6
Parent(s)Christopher Lawrence Sainty and Virginia Cade Stair

Guy Stair Sainty, KStJ KC*SG (born 7 December 1950)[2] is a British art dealer and author on nobility, royal genealogy, and heraldry.

Life and education[edit]

Guy Stair Sainty is the son of Christopher Lawrence Sainty and Virginia Cade Stair, grand-daughter of Alfred Stair.[3] His father was Chief Engineer and Director of Carrier Engineering Co Ltd.[4] He attended Highfield School in Hampshire and Westminster School, London, and continued his education in Rome and at The College of Law in London.[3] In 1979, he moved to New York but returned to Europe in 2002, first to Paris and then to London where the Stair Sainty Gallery has been based since 2005. The gallery specialises primarily in French and Spanish painting from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century and has sold works of art to many of the world's great museums, publishing catalogues on a range of artists and schools.

He married, firstly, on 5 February 1983, Cynthia Holland Ash Volk,[5] with three children, Charles, Clementine, and Della. The marriage ended in divorce in 1993 and ecclesiastical annulment in 1995. Sainty married Elizabeth Frost Pierson, the daughter of W. DeVier Pierson and Shirley Phelps Pierson, née Frost, a private dealer in 19th and 20th century art in New York, in Washington on 28 May 1995[1] and in a second ceremony at the London Oratory on 28 September 1995. With Elizabeth he had three children, George, Julian and Arabella.

Sainty is a half-brother, by his father's first wife, of Sir John Sainty, retired Clerk of the Parliaments.[citation needed]

Appointments, awards, and decorations[edit]

Sainty has had an interest in the subject of chivalry and heraldry for many years. He is a Fellow with the International Commission on Orders of Chivalry.[6] Sainty is a correspondent member of the Real Academia Matritense de Heraldica y Genealogia (Royal Academy of Heraldry and Genealogy of Madrid).[7] He has served for more than twenty years as one of the consultants to the Committee on the Orders of Saint John of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and The Alliance of the Orders of St. John of Jerusalem.[8]

Sainty has served as a County Staff Officer (Sussex) in the St. John Ambulance. He was first appointed an Associate Officer (Brother), then promoted to an Associated Commander (Brother) on 16 June 1989,[9] and again promoted to the rank of Associate Knight of the Venerable Order of Saint John on 30 July 1992.[10] He was transferred to full membership as a knight of Justice with the change of Statutes in 1999, and served as Vice-Chancellor of the Priory in the US until June 2008,[11] but has since transferred to the central roll of the Order.

Sainty is an armiger, having had arms granted by the College of Arms in London, and matriculated at the Court of the Lord Lyon in Edinburgh.[12][13] Sainty has also served as a senior county staff officer to H.R.H. Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia.[14] He was formerly a member of the Savoy Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus[15] but resigned in 2006[citation needed] and is the Vice-Grand Chancellor of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George (Hispano-Neapolitan branch), of which he is a Bailiff Grand Cross.[16] In 2018 the Boletín Oficial del Estado published "The Constantinian Order of Saint George" by Sainty, the first publication in English by the BOE, with a translation in Spanish published in 2020.

On 15 January 2014, Sainty was awarded the rank of Commander (Encomienda) of the Order of Isabella the Catholic by King Juan Carlos I and received unrestricted permission to wear the decorations on 27 July 2017.[citation needed]

Dynastic Orders[edit]

Libel suit by Rosario Poidimani[edit]

In December 2003, Rosario Poidimani sued Sainty in an Italian court for libel, on account of his published analysis of the claims to the Portuguese throne of Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança and Rosario Poidimani.[17] In August 2010, Rosario Poidimani won a decision against Sainty in the court of Vicenza; for defamation allegedly caused by the article, Sainty was ordered to pay twenty thousand euro in the judgment. In March 2016, the Italian Court of Appeal of Venice decided in Sainty's favour, rejecting the claim of Poidimani. (No. 730/2016 published 30/03/2016, RG n. 2667/2010, Repert. n. 680/2016 of 30.03.2016.)[citation needed]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Class Notes". Colorado College. 1995. Archived from the original on 2 April 2007. Retrieved 23 May 2007.
  2. ^ Papal knights Archived 6 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine – Website of the Association of Papal Orders in Great Britain
  3. ^ a b "Miss Volk Weds Guy Stair Sainty". The New York Times. 5 February 1983. p. 12. Cynthia Holland Ash Volk, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hohne Volk of New York and Quaker Hill, Pawling, N.Y., was married yesterday to Guy Stair Sainty, son of Mrs. Christopher Lawrence Sainty of London and the late Mr. Sainty. The Rev. James Whittemore performed the ceremony in the chapel of Trinity Episcopal Church in Manhattan....Mr. Sainty is president of Stair Sainty Fine Art Inc. in Manhattan, which specializes in French painting of the late 18th and 19th centuries. He attended the Westminster School in London and the University of Rome and graduated from the College of Law in London
  4. ^ Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
  5. ^ "Guy Sainty and Cynthia Volk Engaged". New York Times. 5 December 1982. p. A102. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
  6. ^ "Patrons and Members".
  7. ^ Mansel, Philip; Riotte, Torsten, eds. (2010). Monarchy and Exile : the politics of the absent ruler from Marie de Medici to Wilhelm II (1631–1941). Basingstoke: Palgrave. pp. xii. ISBN 9780230249059. He is a correspondent member of the Real Academia Matritense de Heraldica y Genealogia
  8. ^ "Unrecognized and Self-Styled Orders: Preventive Action Measures by Recognized Orders". The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem. The American Society and The Priory in the United States of America of The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem. Archived from the original on 24 September 2011. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
  9. ^ "No. 51767". The London Gazette. 16 June 1989. p. 7104.
  10. ^ "No. 53005". The London Gazette. 30 July 1992. p. 12843.
  11. ^ "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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 August 2007. Retrieved 6 June 2007.
  12. ^ "Roll of Arms of rec.heraldry". Jérôme Grimbert. 1 January 2007. Retrieved 25 May 2007.
  13. ^ "G Britain III". José Vicente de Bragança & J. Stewart LeForte. 15 May 1998. Retrieved 25 May 2007.
  14. ^ "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 11 June 2007.
  15. ^ "Events". American Delegation of Savoy Orders. August 2003. Archived from the original on 26 September 2004. Retrieved 25 May 2007.
  16. ^ "Membership – Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George". Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George. 2007. Archived from the original on 20 May 2007. Retrieved 25 May 2007.
  17. ^ http://www.chivalricorders.org/royalty/fantasy/portugal-false.htm

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