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Name Coat of arms Title recognition Remarks 1: Aleksandrowicz: Kosy. G 1800, R 1847; K.P. died out 2: ... List of Polish noble families with the title of Count.
This article lists the Polish titled families. This list is not complete because in the 19th century Poland was a divided kingdom , between the Russian, the Austrian and the German Empires. Polish-Lithuanian magnates 1576-1586
The Polish clan name and cry ritualized the ius militare, i.e., the power to command an army; and they had been used some time before 1244 to define knightly status. [1] Nevertheless, in daily life, (from the 17th to the 20th century), the sense of belonging to a family predominated.
Polish Nobleman, by Rembrandt, 1637. The szlachta (Polish: szlachta, ⓘ) was a privileged social class in the Kingdom of Poland.The term szlachta was also used for the Lithuanian nobility after the union of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania with Poland as the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Union of Lublin, 1569) and for the increasingly Polonized nobilities of territories controlled by the ...
Because Polish clans (Polish: Rody) have different origins, only part of the szlachta can be traced all the way back to the traditional old clan system based on kinship. The clans that could show kinship belonged to a House (Polish: Dom), [5] such as the House of Odrowąż. Later, when different Houses created different surnames for each ...
Polish coats of arms have their individual names, usually stemming from the heraldic clan's ancient seat or battle cry; or from the way the arms were depicted "canting arms". The battle-cry derivation of many Polish heraldic family names has given rise to the now outdated term "proclamatio arms", referring to the names' hortatory nature.
Polish heraldic clans (68 C) Polish indigenes (6 P) Polish nobility coats of arms (1 C, 5 P) Polish noble families (129 C, 94 P) ... List of Polish titled nobility;