List of Polish coat of arms communities

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Coats of arms denotes a form of organization of the Polish nobility. Several families were united under one coat of arms, but unlike Scottish clans, consanguinity was not a requirement.

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Members of the coat of arms communities could only be aristocrats, although a family could also belong to several coat of arms communities, for example the princes Radziwiłł .

The Polish word for coat of arms , “Herb”, means heritage. The preservation of the heritage (property) was the main goal of the Polish coat of arms community.

Coat groups were also among German knightly families, such as the crest group Hirsch about chess in Pomerania or the scissors arms ( Schernberg , from Scherenberg , Marshal , of Nordhausen , Giech ) in Thuringia and Franconia. The ibex or ram horn led z. B. the Franconian families Adelsheim , Fechenbach , Dürn and Kottwitz in the coat of arms. A genealogical tribal community is possible, but not mandatory. It was z. Sometimes also about other original points of contact such as a joint fiefdom or service relationship depending on the same fiefdom, or about knightly fighting communities, for example on crusades .