Peter Bander van Duren

Peter Bander van Duren (Cologne, 30 July 1930 – 21 April 2004) was a British expert on heraldry and orders of knighthood. He was himself a Knight Grand Cross with Gold Star in the Special Category of the Constantinian Order of St. George of the Royal House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.

Peter Bander became a British citizen in 1962 and in 1976 changed his name by deed poll to "Peter Bander van Duren", adding a slight alteration of his mother's maiden name, von Duren, to his father's surname. Bander van Duren worked as a teacher in a borstal (a prison for youth) and in a school in a deprived part of Islington. Later, he became co-director of Colin Smythe, a small British publishing house.

A Roman Catholic, Bander van Duren wrote several books on heraldry, some of them in coöperation with Bruno Bernard Heim or Archbishop Hygenius Eugene Cardinale, the Apostolic Delegate to the United Kingdom.

Bibliography

• The Prophecies of St Malachy & St Columbkille (Colin Smythe, 1969, reprinted 2005) ISBN 978-0-86140-461-2
• Orders of Knighthood and of Merit (Colin Smythe, 1995) ISBN 978-0-86140-371-4