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Guy Stair 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.



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 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 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. On 30 July 1992, he was promoted to the rank of (Associate) Knight in that Order[8], being 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. He was formerly a member of the Savoy Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus 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. 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. In 2008 he was invested as a knight of magistral grace of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. [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 having been traced to the 18th century. Sainty was admitted into the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in 2008 attached to the Grand Magistery.

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]