Odrowąż

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The coat of arms of the Odrowąż coat of arms

Odrowąż is the name of an old Polish community of coats of arms, presumably of Bohemian origin (cf. the coat of arms of the Beneschauer family ), which produced important church princes, especially in the 12th and 13th centuries. The feminine form of the name is Odrowążowa .

history

Prandota the Elder, who came to Poland from Bohemia at the beginning of the 12th century, is considered to be the progenitor of the Polish Odrowąż line .

Important representatives of the coat of arms community are:

The main line of those from Odrowąż split over time into the Szydłowiecki and Chlewicki houses . These main lines were already extinct at the turn of the Middle Ages to modern times. Descendants of other families who bear the coat of arms name Odrowąż still live in Poland and u. a. in Austria and Germany.

Branches of the Odrowąż coat of arms (selection)

A total of 105 family names are mentioned in Źernicki-Szeligas book The Polish Aristocracy and the same adjoining foreign noble families, whose coat of arms was or is Odrowąż. Due to the peculiarities of the Polish nobility law (see also the coat of arms of the Szlachta ) - families that were not directly related to each other could also wear the same coat of arms - an assignment of individual branches to related family associations is complex.

literature

  • Emilian von Źernicki-Szeliga : The Polish aristocracy and the foreign aristocratic families who joined the same, general directory. 2 volumes, Henri Grand, Hamburg 1900

Individual evidence

  1. Harvard University: The Polish family coats of arms, their history and their say . H. Grand, 1904 ( archive.org [accessed February 15, 2018]).
  2. a b ibid.