Hirsch over chess

Deer over chess is a frequently recurring motif in heraldry. A growing deer over a geschachten field lead and led specifically about a dozen noble families whose parents home in the area of the Duchy of Pomerania lies.

The individual coats of arms of these sexes often only differ in the different colors of individual fields and are similar to themselves in the traditional helmet ornament , which consists either of feathers or mostly feather-like objects. The coats of arms of these Pomeranian families therefore represent a group of coats of arms . Similarly , noble families in Poland organized themselves into coats of arms communities . The strong similarity and the limited space in which these coats of arms appear suggest a relationship or at least a joint fiefdom or service relationship, and in any case the original points of contact between the sexes. Even knightly combat communities - for example on crusades - occasionally united under the same coat of arms, which also occurred in other German regions.

A few genders ( von Bandemer , von Budde , von Lockstädt , von Zarnow ) do not lead a growing stag in the upper field, but an ostensibly similar horned creature, which may have received its shape from a distorted depiction of a stag. The same applies to the sex of the von Belgen , who carried a growing stag at the top but a ladder-like object in the lower shield field, which resembles a misunderstood or modified chess.

The individual genders known so far or their coat of arms are as follows:

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  from Ahlebeck

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  from Carnitz

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  Count of Carnitz

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  from Gutzmerow

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  from Hertzberg

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  Count of Hertzberg

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  from Loppenow

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  from Loppenow

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  by Podewils

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  Count of Podewils

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  from Pomeiske

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  from Schrock

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  from Schwerdtner-Pomeiske

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  from Schwetzkow to Schwetzkow

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  from Stojentin

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  of tauentzien

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  Counts of Tauentzien

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  Count Tauentzien von Wittenberg

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  from Wopersnow

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  from Woyen

Furthermore, these Pomeranian aristocratic families also all have a stag jumping out of a chess in their shield:

• from Cayan
• by Dumrese
• by Gantzel
• from Glinden

Furthermore, the following families of the same or close provenance have a very similar coat of arms:

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  from bellows (protruding deer, from ladder)

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  von Bandemer (protruding bull, out of chess)

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  von Budde (unicorn leaping out of chess)

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  von Gantzkauw (protruding unicorn, out of chess), † Baltic nobility

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  von Lockstädt (unicorn leaping out of chess)

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  by Putbus (eagle over chess)

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  von Schöning (protruding deer, from bush)

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  von Zarnow (protruding billy goat, out of chess)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Bernhard Peter: Divergence and Convergence: Wappengruppen
2. ^ ^{A b} Gustav Kratz , Johann Ludwig Quandt , George Adalbert von Mülverstedt , Wilhelm Stettin: History of the sex v. Kleist , Part Two: General History (1st edition 1873, 2nd edition reissued by Sigurd von Kleist Bergisch Gladbach 2007), p. 202 ( digital copy ; PDF; 4.7 MB)

literature

• Julius Theodor Bagmihl : Pommersches Wappenbuch . Stettin 1843–1855, 5 volumes