Croatian Heraldry

Adam S. Eterovich

KRILETICH-KRILE

KRELJUTICH

ALE-DELALE

LALE

Krile means wing in Croatian and Dall'Ale means wing in Italian. All of the KrIletich’s originate from Lumbarda on the Island of Korcula and the Krile’s from the Dubrovnik districts of Dalmatia. Delale can still be found in Dalmatia.

The colors of the arms are red for the verticle lines; gold for the dots; and silver for the white. This Dalle Ale, Delale, Kriletich, Kreljutich came to Trogir in the 1500's. He was the nobility of Seymour from Somerset in England. He was a druggist and chemist. Jane Seyrnour was the third wife of Henry the V111 of England and her son became Edward the VI of England and her brother Lord of Somerset.

Our Seymour of Dalmatia was a brother and his arms had a wing on the shield. This became Kriletich in Dalmatia. Duisin in his Zbornlk Plemstva indicates that the House of Somerset died out because of a lack of male heirs. He speculates that the Dalmatian branch could be eligible as Lord of Somerset.

The most controversial resident of Rovinj’s retirement home, Palm Dellale-Mladinovic in Rovinj at the age of 78. Palma hailed from the family from Rogoznica near Sibenik, where, she as a child listened to stories about the aristocratic background of her family whose roots supposedly go back all the way to the England's Seymour Sommerset family and King Henry V111.

Frank Kriletich of San Francisco uses the Dalmatian clan name of Lale and when questioned, of this, stated, "We have always used Lale". Could Frank be "Lord of Somerset"?

Courtesy of the Croatian Genealogical and Heraldic Society, 2527 San Carlos Ave., San Carlos, California, 94070. Six weeks delivery. Phone: 650-592-1190; E-Mail croatians@aol.com; Web www.croatians.com. Adam S. Eterovich.

HENRY V111 DESCENDANT DIES IN ROVINJ

Three years ago, we wrote about her efforts to prove her aristocratic background and thus realize her right to a small part of the inheritance of Edward XV11, the last offspring of the Seymoure family, who wanted to visit his poor relatives in Dalmatia, but unfortunately died in 1954 before he could realize his wish. Back then, Palma presented excerpts from The Gold Book of Trogir's Aristocracy, written by historian Jerolim Buffalis in 1776. Buffalis writes about Dalle Ale, the first pharmacy owner in Trogir, who came from England with the coat of arms of the Seymour family.

He also states that the Dallale families in Dalmatia originate from him. Lady Palma pleas for assistance to find evidence about her aristocratic background were largely ignored. The British embassy in Zagreb also turned a deaf ear. The last years of her life were spent in a very modest retirement home in Rovinj. Croatian weekly jan 2000