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Conte Bernard, 1906.

Copyright belongs to Annuario della Nobilita Italiana, edizione XXX1, Vol 111 – Maltese nobility.

The 1906 title of Conte Bernard was obviously granted after the conclusion of the 1878 Commission. Therefore there can be no reference to that title in the 1878 report. It should be remembered that the purpose of that report (as the report reads) was to identify those titles which were granted or recognized by the sovereign authorities of Malta during the Government of the Knights of Saint John. Some may argue that this title is not one of those titles ?recognised by the British Monarch?. That argument is flawed because the purpose of the 1878 Commission was not to ?recognize? but to ?identify? those titles which had already been granted or recognized during the Government of the Order (1530-1798). This is better explained by the terms of reference to the Commissioners that ?the Secretary of State for the colonies decided that the heads of the families who, before the annexation of Malta to the British Dominions, obtained tiles of nobility, should in accordance with a precedent during the administration of the late Governor, Sir Henry K. Storks, have precedence of the Chamber of Commerce, and in order to ascertain (etc)?. In this case, the title of Conte Bernard is simply not one of those titles that were obtained during the Government of the Order. See: Correspondence and Report of the Commission appointed to enquire into the claims and grievances of the Maltese Nobility, May 1878, presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty (C.-2033.): see letter of Chief Secretary to Government to Commissioners dated March 8, 1877 (page 52)​.

Last update: 04-06-2020.

Note: Royal Decree by the King of Italy governing succession to Titles of Nobilityand Nobiliary ranks – Decree no 1489 of 16 August 1926.

Granted to: Col. Pietro Paolo Bernard.

By: Pope Pius X.

On: 1906 at Rome, Papal States

With Remainder to: Singularly to all his descendants in the male primogenial line born in lawful wedlock and not seperated from the catholic religion.

List of Title holders: 

1.  Col Pietro Paolo Bernard, (d. 1913), 1st Conte, succeeded by his son.

2. Conte Sir Edgard Edwin Bernard, Pasha of Egypt, (d. 1931), 2nd Conte, succeeded by his son.

3. Conte Dr Francis Edgar Bernard, MB, CH.B, (d. 2014), 3rd Conte, succeeded by his son.

4. Conte Paul Bernard, (d. 2015), 4th Conte, succeeded by his brother.

5. Conte Marc Bernard, (1959-, 5th Conte.

Heir: Conte Mylo Bernard.

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