Heraldic comrade

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With Wappengenoß is called in heraldry those same arms lead. Awarding, inheritance or just acceptance were the options for keeping an identical coat of arms.

Often, especially if not from the nobility , the heraldic comrade was not allowed to own a fief , unlike the fiefdom . The use of the coat of arms was made dependent on the knighthood. By this one understood that the comrade (heraldic comrade) was born to shield and helmet , so noble. The knighthood had a significant influence on the tournaments. The knighthood only demanded to prove the same, to examine the coat of arms around the evidence of knighthood and ancestral test, which required the tournament ability.

From the 16th century, more and more civil coats of arms, which increased the number of coats of arms.

In the Kingdom of Bohemia it was forbidden by law to be a heraldic companion or, as it was also called, a heraldic cousin . Only the king could give his consent to the comrade.

Many families in Poland have the same coat of arms as a community of coats of arms.

literature

  • Comrade in the Heraldry Wiki
  • Pierer's Universal Lexicon. Volume 18: Turkish Empire - Wechsler. 4th, revised and greatly increased edition. Pierer, Altenburg 1864, p. 846 .
  • Christian Gottlieb Riccius : Reliable draft from the rural nobility in Germany. Adam Jonathan Felßecker Erben, Nuremberg 1735, p. 372 .