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Przyjaciel (Polish for "Friend") also known as "de Pryjatel" and "Amicus" is a Polish coat of arms. It was used by several szlachta (noble) families under the Kingdom of Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Polish coats of arms are divided in the same way as their western counterparts. However, Polish coats of arms is applied on clans rather than to separate families and new families where adopted to the Clan, using same CoA. Thus Polish escutcheons are rarely parted, there are however a lot of preserved quartered coats-of-arms. These would most ...
The coat of arms of the Republic of Poland is described in two legal documents: the Constitution of the Republic of Poland of 1997 [3] and the Coat of Arms, Colors and Anthem of the Republic of Poland, and State Seals Act (Ustawa o godle, barwach i hymnie Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej oraz o pieczęciach państwowych) of 1980 with subsequent amendments [1] (henceforth referred to as "the Coat of ...
Most of the pictures of the coats of arms listed below were prepared by Tadeusz Gajl for his book Herby szlacheckie Rzeczypospolitej Obojga Narodów, Gdańsk, 2003. They are featured in Wikipedia with the author's permission.
Polish Coats of Arms listing Archived 2006-11-08 at the Wayback Machine (Polish) Armorial; J. Lyčkoŭski. "Belarusian Nobility Coats of Arms". (in English) Górecki, Piotr (1992), Economy, Society, and Lordship in Medieval Poland: 1100–1250, New York, NEW YORK: Holmes and Meier Publishers, Inc., ISBN 0-8419-1318-8, OCLC 25787903
During the January uprising a similar coat of arms was proposed for the restored Commonwealth, with Archangel Michael, the coat of arms of Ruthenia added as the third element. However, it was never officially introduced.
Odrowąż is a Polish coat of arms of probably Moravian origin. It was used by many noble families known as szlachta in Polish in medieval Poland and later under the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, branches of the original medieval Odrowążowie family as well as families connected with the Clan by adoption.
Description of the coat of arms. In the silver field, a black millstone with a middle silver rynd. In the jewel, eight silver puppies heads in two rows; two at the top looking right, two left, one at the bottom looking right, and three turned left. The description of the coat of arms Kuszaba appears already in Jewels of Jan Długosz: as Kuszaba.