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'''Armand de Fluvià i Escorsa''' (born 1931, deceased 6th September 2024),<ref name="Sàpiens">Casas, Sònia "Armand de Fluvià "El rei Joan Carles I és descendent directe de Guifré el Pilós"". Sàpiens Review. Grup Cultura 03, 112, January 2012, 26–27.</ref> is awas [[Catalonia|Catalan]] [[genealogist]] and [[heraldist]]. He specializesspecialized in [[Catalan people|Catalan]] genealogies and in the dynasties of the counts of the [[Catalan Countries]]. He hashad also been a pioneer of the gay rights movement since the last years of the [[Francoist Spain|Francoist]] dictatorship.<ref>[http://www.enciclopedia.cat/EC-GEC-0232414.xml Article] in the [[Great Catalan Encyclopedia]].</ref> He was one of the founders of ''[[Nacionalistes d'Esquerra]]'' (Leftist Nationalists).
 
== Early life ==
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In 1996, de Fluvià gave his bibliographic and documentary collection to the [[Generalitat de Catalunya]] (Catalan regional government).<ref name="Sàpiens" /> At the time, he opposed the change of heraldry symbols that had been approved by the Ajuntament de Barcelona (Barcelona City Hall). In 2000, he was awarded the [[Creu de Sant Jordi]]<ref name="Sàpiens" /> and in 2008 received the ''Golden Medal of Barcelona''.
 
On 24 October 2007, he founded the ''[[Institució Catalana de Genealogia i Heràldica]]'' (Catalan Institution of Genealogy and Heraldry) (ICGenHer) andbeing isthe chairperson until presenthis day,death thein president2024.<ref name="Sàpiens"/>
 
=== Activist ===
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