renaissaence:Royal Families of the Wizarding World: The Royal House of Delacour The House of Delacou
renaissaence:Royal Families of the Wizarding World: The Royal House of Delacour The House of Delacour was one of the most influential royal houses of magical Europe. Their Empire was composed of an accretion of territories that owed their historic loyalty to the head of the house of Delacour as hereditary lord. The Delacours had mostly married the heiresses of these territories, most famously magical families of Spain and the Netherlands. They used their coats of arms then as a statement of their right to rule all these territories. As there were many territories, so their arms were complex and reflected the waxing and waning position of the Delacours within European power politics -- source link