Coat of arms

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Lehnswappen even Lehnwappen called, were in feudalism guided family crest when the belonging to them land as a fief was granted. As a rule, it was run as long as the vassal and his feeble descendants held the feud. If a family died out, the coat of arms fell back to the liege lord and could be reassigned together with the feudal property.

Coat of arms fiefdom ( Latin feudum insignium ) was the right given by the liege lord to his vassals to use a specific coat of arms. During the German Reich Association , these fiefs, if they were awarded by the Kaiser, were direct or imperial fiefs, otherwise indirect or land-based heraldic fiefs. As a rule, they were passed on to the legal descendants of the first purchaser and were extinguished with the last of the tribe to which the coat of arms was broken and placed in the coffin. Only when the other feudal heirs had been declared eligible for succession in the coat of arms through a special disposition of the liege lord , they were added. The feudal lord often lent the coats of arms of extinct families elsewhere. In the coat of arms fiefdom, mutual loyalty is the characteristic of the fiefdom quality.

The feudal object could not only be real estate, but also sovereign rights ( regalia ). The enfeoffment of blood jurisdiction could be shown in the regalia field of the coat of arms, mainly in the shield base as a single red field .

The Lehnswappen was the imperial herald in man book or Lehnbuch documented. These registers show, along with other entries, the corresponding coats of arms, for example the fief book of the Speyer diocese, which was created in 1465 and shows 72 hand-painted coats of arms of the diocese's fiefdoms on 261 pages.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lehnwappen Pierer's Universal-Lexikon, Volume 10. Altenburg 1860, p 232. zeno.org, accessed on 17 June 2020th
  2. ↑ Bernhard Peter: Coat of Arms species and genera of 2008.
  3. ↑ Johann Georg Krünitz: crest fief Oeconomischen Encyclopedia (1773-1858), accessed on 17 June 2020th
  4. ↑ Gert Oswald : Lexicon of Heraldry. VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1984.