semper fi

Semper Fidelis" is Latin for "Always faithful." This phrase has served as motto or title for several entities, listed here in the order in which they are believed to have adopted it:

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1 The Lynch family of Galway
2 The City of Exeter
3 The City of Lwów
4 St. Malo
5 Edge of Strelley
6 Lucerne section of the Swiss Student Union
7 Cadetcorps of the Dutch Royal Military Academy
8 The Devonshire Regiment
9 The United States Marine Corps
10 U.S. 11th Infantry Regiment
11 The West Nova Scotia Regiment
12 Swiss Grenadier Regiment
13 Plymouth Argyle Football Club
14 Hagley RC High School
15 Hungarian Government Guard
16 Senator Joe Doyle
17 External links
18 References



[edit] The Lynch family of Galway
Semper Fidelis is the family motto of the Lynch Family. The Lynches were one of the Twelve Tribes of Galway, who were fourteen merchant families who dominated the political, commercial, and social life of the city of Galway in western Ireland between the 13th and 16th centuries. Members of the 'Tribes' were considered Old English gentry, and distinguished themselves from the Gaelic peoples who lived in the hinterland of the city. The Lynches were descended from William Le Petit who was one of the Norman knights who settled in Ireland following the intervention in Irish affairs of Henry II of England in the early 12th century. Semper Fidelis appears on the Lynch Family coat of arms. Although the earliest traceable reference to its doing so is James Hardiman's history of Galway published in 1820, the history of the family makes it likely that the motto was in use by the 14th or 15th century.