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All the German states have coats of arms, as do the city-states (Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen). Most were composed when the states joined the Federation, but draw on previous influences. These cities typically bear a large open crown over the shield, a privilege granted under German town law.
B Name Period Seat/Origins Canton Remarks Personalities Coat of arms Bart zu Koppenhausen The Bärtts of Kopenhausen Siebmacher 1605:83,13 Baurenfreund Baurenfreund Siebmacher 1605:89,12 Baymundt Baymundt Siebmacher 1605:99,3 Behaim von Abensberg 1120-vor 1681 Village of Behaim bei Moosburg, Abensberg, Freising House of Beheim von Adelshausen Behem von Adelzhausen Pehaim von Adelshausen Beheim ...
The griffin coat of arms still refers to the coat of arms used in Hessen and Thuringia and Saxony by using the same horns and red and white colours in the horns. This Falcken family, whose patriarch is “Knight” Heyso Falcken, (mentioned in 1359) is a bastard son. [4] of the House of Hesse (they are descendants from the House of Reginar ...
Von Dahn (Thann) coat of arms. The Dahn family, also Tan, Tann or Thann, is a German noble family from the Palatinate region of Germany. The von Than coat of arms in the late 15th century Hyghalmen Roll (centre left). The roll was published in 1447–1455 in Cologne and is today in the possession of the College of Arms in London
Coat of arms of the Albrecht family (1895) The Albrecht family is a North German family whose members have been prominent as civil servants, politicians and businesspeople. . The family was among the hübsche ("courtly" or "genteel") families of the Kingdom of Hanover, the informal third elite group after the nobility and the clergy that encompassed the higher bourgeoisie and university ...
The federal assembly constitutes the old German imperial eagle with the surrounding scripture "German Confederation" and the colors of the former German imperial coat of arms – black, red, gold – to be the coat of arms and colors of the German Confederation and reserves the right, to make further decision about its use according to the ...
Many patrician families had the emperor individually confirm their nobility quality through imperial nobility or coat of arms letters, often combined with improvements in a coat of arms and crowns, often against payment.
There is a similarity between the Hahn's coat of arms, the old Franconian families of Rothenhahn and Hahnsberg, further reinforced by the 'historical' form of the name of the Öesel's Hahn family: "Hahn genannt Rothenstern". Another similarity exists between Hahn's coat of arms and that of the de Vogüé family of Aubenas, France.